Five new professional coaches for Murfreesboro Soccer Club (MSC) Select teams have been added to MSC's staff. The coaches are: Chance Cunningham, Madison Ledet, Ashton Makovicka, Drew Perry and Sophie Toms. These staff additions coincide with MSC's Select team tryouts, which begin Monday, May 15, 2017 and extend through June 8, 2017. To register for MSC Select tryouts, go to murfreesborosoccer.com and click Registration.

"We're very excited to welcome these very qualified and experienced soccer coaches to our coaching staff," said MSC President Bryan Kleparek. "As we begin Select soccer tryouts and move toward our next season, we welcome all children, youth and young adults who are interested in furthering their soccer skills and experience to register for tryouts and consider being a member of a Select team. In Select soccer, we work hard on skills development, focus on strategy and teamwork, and also have a lot of fun on the field and in our local area travels. We want to encourage our rec players and others in the community to consider getting involved in MSC's Select program."

About Chance Cunningham: Cunningham will be the head coach for the U11 boys team.

He has played Select soccer with the Tennessee Futbol Club, Brentwood Soccer Club and Nashville Metros, and his teams earned state championships four times and a regional semi-finalist position one time. As a high school soccer player, Cunningham was a state finalist. He has a strong background in coaching, having coached for the Tennessee Soccer Club from 2011 through 2016; for Ravenwood High School for both the boys and girls teams from 2012 through 2016; the Nashville United Soccer Academy in 2016 and 2017; and with Murfreesboro Soccer Club in 2017.

About Madison Ledet: Madison Ledet will be an assistant coach for MSC's U9 Girls and U12 Girls. Ledet has played soccer for 19 years. She played select soccer for six years and for four years with Solar Soccer Club. Ledet also played at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) for four years. She has coached soccer through MTSU's community service program and with MSC's Lady Strikers.

About Ashton Makovicka: Makovicka will be the head coach for MSC's U17 boys' Elite team. He comes from Wartburg College to MSC. At Wartburg, Makovicka was the first assistant and head reserves coach. Before that time, Makovicka was the junior varsity coach at Southeast High School in Lincoln, NE. He previously was assistant coach at North Iowa Area Community College, served as a soccer intern at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and was a soccer intern at the College of Saint Mary's in Omaha, NE. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in human performance from Midland University in 2012 and a Master's degree from Concordia University in Irvine, CA, in 2014. Makovicka also played at Dana College and at Midland University.

About Drew Perry: Perry will be the head coach for MSC's U9 boys team. He holds a United States Soccer Federation National D License. Perry's coaching experience includes coaching for the Northwest Arkansas Lightning Soccer Club in Rogers, AR, from 2004 through 2007 for the U11 Girls Academy; for the Tennessee Futbol Club in Franklin, TN, from 2009 through 2012 for the U12 Boys and U9 Boys Academy; and for the Tennessee Soccer Club in Brentwood, TN, from 2012 through 2017 for the U8 Boys/Girls Academy and U9 Boys Academy. Perry played for the Murfreesboro Strikers from 1998 through 2002, for Oakland High School from 1999 through 2002; and for Union University in Jackson, TN, in 2003. That same year Union University earned a National Christian College Athletic Association National Championship.

About Sophie Toms: Toms will be the assistant coach for the U11 girls team. She was born in Brisbane, Australia, and played nine years of club soccer before moving to the United States to play D1 soccer at Butler Community College in Kansas. She moved to Tennessee three years ago where she was Assistant Coach of the girls' varsity team at East Hamilton High School in Chattanooga, TN, for two seasons. While coaching at East Hamilton, Toms also assisted with the varsity boys' playoffs and middle school seasons.