Creator of Ask the Goalkeeper: Chase Harrison

Professional Career: Chase was drafted in to the MLS in the third round, 26th overall by Real Salt Lake in the 2006 MLS Supplemental Draft. He began his career in the USL First Division after being loaned to Virginia Beach Mariners and was called back to Real Salt Lake in July of 2006. In his 2007 season while playing with the Rochester Rhinos in the USL first division, he played in 18 games, earning USL team of the week and USL player of the week honors. Harrison is currently playing with the Portland Timbers.

College Career: Harrison never missed a game after getting his first start into his freshman year, appearing in 79 matches. He currently holds most of Virginia Tech’s goalkeeper records: most minutes played in a career (7,181), least goals against average in a career (1.12), career shutouts (24), most minutes played in a season (2,062), as well as most shutouts in a season (8). Throughout his time at Virginia Tech he was honored multiple times as ACC player of the week, Big East player of the week, and Soccer America Team of the week.

Coaching Career: Chase started his college coaching career by returning to Virginia Tech for the 2007 season during his professional off season.  Virginia Tech went on to have their best season in school history making it all the way to the semifinals of the College Cup. They ended the season third in the nation.

Why we where created?

When I was growing up it was always difficult for me to find a good goalkeeper coach in my area. Because of this I would get online and try to find as much information that I could on goalkeeper technique and goalkeeper drills that I could do on my own and with my club coaches. I was able to find tons of information, but much of it was very confusing and hard to understand. I would try to do the drills that I would read about and either they didn’t work or I didn’t understand how they would help me become a better goalkeeper. Finally, after searching for hours, I would find a good site that had quality information, but they would only give me one good drill for free and then I would have to register and pay for a membership. I wanted to provide the opportunity for players and coaches to have a resource with easy to understand goalkeeper drills that would be completely free. I wanted to make available the opportunity for players to actually see a professional goalkeeper doing the drills and explaining how they can help someone become a better goalkeeper without needing to register or pay any monthly fees.

How can our information be free?