Jake Dancy

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Jake Dancy
Personal information
Date of birth (1978-04-09) April 9, 1978 (age 46)
Place of birth Diamond Bar, California, United States
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Position(s) Defender
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1996 Fresno State Bulldogs 20 (1)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1997 Orange County Zodiac 15 (2)
1997–1999 Kansas City Wizards 19 (0)
1998 → Hershey Wildcats (loan) 3 (1)
2000 Orange County Zodiac 28 (1)
2000–2003 Kansas City Attack/Comets (indoor) 70 (12)
2001 Connecticut Wolves 13 (1)
2004 Kansas City Comets (indoor) 16 (4)
2007–2008 Orlando Sharks (indoor) 2 (0)
Total166(20)
Managerial career
2007–2008 Orlando Sharks
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jake Dancy is a retired American soccer defender who played professionally in Major League Soccer, the USL A-League and the second Major Indoor Soccer League. He also coached one season in the second MISL.

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Player

College

In 1996, Dancy attended Fresno State University where he played twenty games, scoring one goal with a team that went to the NCAA quarterfinals. He was named to the Soccer America All Freshman Team. [1]

Professional

Dancy spent time with the Kansas City Wizards during the 1997 Major League Soccer pre-season, but was not signed to a contract. In May 1997, he joined the Orange County Zodiac of the USISL A-League. The Wizards called him up in August of that year and he played three games at the end of the season. The Wizards kept him on the roster for the 1998 season, but he played only one game in May and one in September with three games on loan to the Hershey Wildcats. In 1999, Dancy played fourteen games for the Wizards. The Wizards released him at the end of the season. In February 2000, the MetroStars selected Dancy in the sixth round (sixty-first overall) of the 2000 MLS SuperDraft. [2] The team released him on February 22, 2000. [3] Dancy joined the Zodiac for the 2000 season. In 2001, he finished his outdoor career with the Connecticut Wolves. In the fall of 2000, he signed with the Kansas City Attack of the National Professional Soccer League. In 2001, the Attack was renamed the Comets as the team moved to the second Major Indoor Soccer League. The Comets released Dancy at the end of the 2003 season. In January 2004, he returned to the Comets for the second half of the 2003–2004 season, playing fourteen games for the Comets that season. [4] He then began the 2004–2005 season with the Comets, playing two games before being released. Dancy also played a handful of games as a player-coach for the Orlando Sharks during the 2007–2008 MISL season.

Coach

On September 25, 2007, Dancy became the head coach of the Orlando Sharks of the MISL. [5] The team folded at the end of the season.

Personal

In February 1997, Dancy had an altercation with Brian Kamler during a preseason match. [6] Kamler's face was broken in seven places, including his cheek and around his left eye. Kamler filed a lawsuit against Dancy and the U.S. Soccer Federation for $7.3 million. Dancy was charged with a felony for assault by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office. A trial was held on May 18, 1998, and Dancy pleaded no contest to the charge. Dancy was sentenced five years probation. [7]

Present Life

Dancy currently works as the Operations Manager and National Sales Director for the Mystery Shopping Company, Shoppers' Critique International.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ "Men's Soccer Honors". Archived from the original on 2012-05-28. Retrieved 2012-01-02.
  2. ↑ 2000 MLS Draft Picks
  3. ↑ February 22, 2000 Transactions
  4. ↑ Comets sign two players
  5. ↑ Sharks tap Dancy as team's first head coach
  6. ↑ Goff, Steve (April 26, 1998). "Kamler Knows All About Turning the Other Cheek". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  7. ↑ "Kamler Awarded $550,000 For '97 Preseason Game Punch - tribunedigital-sunsentinel". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
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