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...SOCCER...
...swivel chair with one foot propped comfortably up on a desk, John Kerr thumbs through a pamphlet on next fall’s Diadora Classic tournament, hosted by the University of San Francisco. Kerr, who begins his fourth year as Harvard’s men’s soccer coach this month, has his team scheduled to compete in the tourney next fall...
...also includes Santa Clara, which played in the national championship game as recently as 1999. But that doesn’t keep Harvard from being utterly convinced that it can win the whole thing. On the heels of a breakthrough 2001 season, Kerr has the men’s soccer program sitting pretty...
...wanted to bring back the glory days of Harvard soccer,” he says matter-of-factly...
After college, Kerr spent time playing professionally in Europe, as well as in the United States. After the Major Indoor Soccer League folded in 1992, Kerr joined the coaching staff at Duke as the top assistant to his former mentor, John Rennie. Kerr signed on on a trial basis, committing only to the first six weeks of the season. But he ended up loving it so much, he stayed the whole season. After that, Kerr—whose father coached him during his teens—had the coaching bug in his system for good...