Our speaker for March will be Felipe Restrepo who is the soccor coach
for Cal State Chico. Felipe was named the California Collegiate Athletic
Association coach of the year in 2008 and his his team has taken three
expeditions to the National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship
tournament.
His long journey as a coach stretches into the classroom with the students
he teaches. Felipe focused in anthropology, sociology and identity cultural
race theory for the PhD he received from Davis in 2014. He uses these badges
mainly to assist students of color on campus. His specialties in these areas
are a key to the soccer program’s graduation success; he has helped 70
students graduate in his 10 years of coaching.