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Jake

Dube

MLS Director & Head Coach U19 & U16
About

Jake

Jake enters year four with DME Academy, Sarasota with an impressive playing and coaching career. He played college soccer at Briar Cliff University where he was a starter and captain of the team. He earned GPAC First Team All-Conference and earned the 2018 United Soccer Coaches NAIA Men’s All-Plains Region Second Team. After college, Jake went on to play semi-professionally in the NPSL in South Dakota.

As a coach, Jake is a student of the game. He has coached at Lakewood Ranch High School as an Assistant on the Boy’s Varsity Coach for 5 seasons. The team won 2 district championships, 2 regional championships, and 1 state final appearance. During their impressive run in 2019/20, the team was ranked #4 in the country

Jake has also coached at local soccer clubs in the area for the past four years spending time with Braden River Soccer Club working on the boys’ side of the game across U10-U19 age groups. Most notably, he won the ECNL-R league title with the 04/05 boys for the 2022/23 season going undefeated with 11 clean sheets in 16 games.

At DME Academy, Jake led the 05/06 boys team to the Elite Academy National Championship in St. Louis, finishing as a Top 16 team in the country. In 24/25,  Jake coached the 2011 and 06/07  age groups, with similar results and a EA National run. In 25/26 he coaches the 07/08 & 2011 NAL teams and has his eye sets on NAL Nationals as the team sits in first place. Heading into next season Jake will lead the U19 MLS and NAL teams & U16 MLS age group as well has been promoted to the MLS Director after an impressive year on the field and off. He lead our UPSL team to first place in our first season as well as earned his USSF B License.
Quick

Facts

Hometown

Bradenton, FL

Certifications

B license

Teams