Clay Roberts is the head coach of the

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and a consultant for the

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of the

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. Roberts has also served as Director of Soccer at VSI Tampa Bay FC, and director of coaching at Brandon FC. As a player, Roberts attended

Florida Southern College Florida Southern College (Florida Southern, Southern or FSC) is a private college in Lakeland, Florida. In 2019, the student population at FSC consisted of 3,073 students along with 130 full-time faculty members. It offers undergraduate, gradua ...

. Professionally, he played for the

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and the

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, where he was a part of their 2007 MISL championship. As a coach and administrator, Roberts has been the vice president of the

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in the PDL, the director of VSI, director of Brandon FC, both women's and men's head coach at

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(now Cairn University), the

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of the WPSL, and an assistant at

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. In his first year at Southeastern University, Roberts was named the

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2015 soccer coach of the year as the team won the school's first-ever conference championship. Roberts was named the first head coach of the

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in the

before the team began play in 2016. Roberts again won the

Coach of the Year award in 2019. Just months later, Roberts was also honored as Coach of the Year for the

, having led the Florida Tropics to their first winning record and an Eastern Conference Championship with an 18–3 record. Clay's brother,

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, is also a coach, most recently with the

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References

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