Paul Mott

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Paul Mott
Personal information
Full name Paul B. Mott, III
Date of birth (1958-06-19) June 19, 1958 (age 65)
Place of birth Berlin, Germany
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1972-1975 Lawrenceville Big Red
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1976-1979 Dartmouth
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1980 Tampa Bay Rowdies 11 (0)
1980-1981 Tampa Bay Rowdies (indoor) 13 (1)
1981 New York United
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Paul B. Mott, III (born June 19, 1958) is an American retired professional soccer player, as well as a sports consultant and former professional sports executive.

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Early life

Mott was born in Berlin, West Germany, to American parents, [1] Paul and Susan Mott, while his father was working there as a U.S. Intelligence officer. [2] After the family returned to the U.S., he lived in Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey [3] and played high school soccer at the Lawrenceville School in the township's Lawrenceville section, earning All-State honors [4] before attending Dartmouth College.

Soccer career

At Dartmouth, he was team captain, a two-time All-Ivy League selection, [5] and a second team All-American for the college's soccer team, [6] and was later inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in 1984. [7] Mott was selected in the first round of the December 1979 NASL draft [8] by the Tampa Bay Rowdies and was also selected by the New York Arrows in the MISL territorial draft a month earlier. [9] He signed in February with Tampa Bay seeing limited action during the 1980 outdoor season, but was a regular during the team's 1980-81 indoor campaign, appearing in 13 of 18 games. After being released by the Rowdies, he spent the 1981 season as a starter with New York United of the American Soccer League before giving up as a player because of a chronic ankle injury. [10]

Post playing career

After initially working in college admissions at Rollins College [10] and later at Williams College, he moved to Dallas in 1985 where he coached soccer and taught at St. Mark's School for eleven years. [11] [12]

He worked for both the 1994 FIFA World Cup and the 1996 Summer Olympics as a field producer. [3] From their start up in 1996 until 2000 he worked for the Dallas Burn of MLS as the Vice President of Operations and Administration, and later as a Senior Vice President. [3] In 2000 he became the Vice President of Special Projects for Major League Soccer. [3]

NBA years and return to MLS

He then moved to the NBA where he spent three and a half years with the league's division of Marketing and Team Business Operation. [3] In April 2005, he was named president of the New Orleans Hornets, [3] and later that year drew praise for his calm handling of team operations during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which including relocating the team to Oklahoma City while their arena and city recovered. [3] [13] He left the organization in July 2006. [14]

He then returned to MLS as a consultant before being hired full-time in 2007 as the league's head of team services. [13] He left that position in 2011 after four years to work at his own sports firm, TeamBow Consulting. [12] [15]

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References

  1. ↑ Scheiber, Dave (February 2, 1980). "Rowdies set to sign top draft pick Mott". St. Petersburg Times. p. 6C. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
  2. ↑ Sun, Brittany (August 2, 2019). "Attending Lawrenceville Lifechanging for Paul Mott '47, P'76, GP'18 '20". Lawrenceville.org. Retrieved January 2, 2021.[ dead link ]
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Green, Jim (August 25, 2005). "From local star to NBA Czar". centraljersey.com. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
  4. ↑ "Lawrenceville Athletics Hall of Fame". Lawrenceville.org. December 31, 2011. Retrieved January 2, 2021.[ dead link ]
  5. ↑ "Ivy League All-Star Team" . The Boston Globe. November 29, 1979. p. 52. Retrieved January 2, 2021– via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Morrone, Kapp Both Selected All-Americans" . The Boston Globe. December 1, 1979. p. 32. Retrieved January 2, 2021– via Newspapers.com.
    - "SOCCER NSCA All-America team". The Boston Globe. December 28, 1979. p. 34. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Men's Soccer". Dartmouths College Varsity Athletics. March 21, 2019. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
  8. ↑ "Illinois Striker Leads Soccer Draft" . The Boston Globe. December 11, 1979. p. A-8. Retrieved January 2, 2021– via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "MISL Draft" . St. Louis Post-Dispatch. November 13, 1979. p. 15A. Retrieved January 2, 2021– via Newspapers.com.
  10. 1 2 Mudry, Richard (September 18, 1981). "Championship would be nice finish for ex-Rowdy" . The Tampa Times. p. 4C. Retrieved January 2, 2021– via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ Lessels, Allan (October 7, 1990). "Big Green coach crafting new reputation" . The Boston Globe. p. NH22. Retrieved January 2, 2021– via Newspapers.com.
  12. 1 2 "Faculty & Staff". The Pride. 18 (1). St. Mark'’s School of Texas: 65. Winter 2012. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
  13. 1 2 "Major League Soccer Hires Paul Mott, Expands Team Services Department". Our Sports Central. September 17, 2007. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
  14. ↑ "Mott leaves Hornets" . Tucson Citizen. July 11, 2006. Retrieved January 2, 2021– via via Newspapers.com.
  15. ↑ Dreier, Fred (November 17, 2011). "Paul Mott Resigns As Head of Club Services For MLS After Four Years". Sports Business Journal. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
    - "Paul Mott 1980; 1981 (id)". Tampa Bay Rowdies appreciation Blog. September 8, 2009. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
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