Jacob Coggins

Jacob Coggins (born November 28, 1978 in Charlotte, North Carolina) is an American soccer player who currently plays for USASA amateur team CASL Elite.

Jacob Coggins
Personal information
Full name Jacob Coggins
Date of birth (1978-11-28) November 28, 1978
Place of birth Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Position(s) Forward
Club information
Current team
 CASL Elite
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–1999 Wilmington Hammerheads
2000–2007 Charlotte Eagles 103 (50)
2008 Carolina RailHawks 10 (1)
2009 Charlotte Eagles 18 (2)
2010– CASL Elite
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of June 16, 2010

Career

Youth

Coggins attended Independence High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, but was not recruited by any major colleges and passed on offers from small schools.

Professional

While attending a community college in Charlotte in 1998, he attended to a tryout with the Wilmington Hammerheads of the USISL D-3 Pro League who offered him a contract. In 2000, he moved to the Charlotte Eagles. In 2001, the Eagles moved up to the second division USL A-League, dropping back to the USL Second Division for the 2004 season. That year, he was the USL-2 scoring leader and league MVP, repeating both titles in 2005, as the Eagles won the league championship. He suffered from injuries during the 2006 season, which limited him to fourteen games. However, he returned strong in 2007, again leading the USL-2 in scoring.

On December 5, 2007, Coggins signed with the Carolina RailHawks of the USL First Division.[1] He made his league debut in a 1-1 tie with the Atlanta Silverbacks on April 19, 2008.

At the end of the season, he returned to Charlotte where he became a coach in the Eagles youth system.[2] On March 31, 2009, he signed with the Eagles,[3] and played 18 games for the team over the course of the season before being released at the end of the year.

Coggins played the amateur team CASL Elite in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup in 2010; his team won their regional qualification group (which also featured NPSL teams FC Tulsa and Atlanta FC) before falling 4-2 to USL Second Division pro side Charleston Battery in the first round of tournament proper.[4]

International

In February 2005, Coggins was called into the United States national team training camp when a contract dispute led the first team players to refuse to enter camp. However, Coggins never played a game with the national team.

References
  1. "RailHawks Acquire USL-2 Star Forward from Charlotte Eagles". Archived from the original on 2012-04-20. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
  2. "2009 Elite Program Directors Announced". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
  3. Eagles duo return from RailHawks: Lemons and USL-2 MVP Coggins back with Charlotte for 2009 Archived June 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on January 13, 2012. Retrieved July 17, 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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