Men's Soccer Coaching Staff
Jim Brazeau
Head Men's Soccer Coach
jimbrazeau@pacificu.edu
Jim Brazeau enters his ninth season leading the Pacific men's soccer program after succeeding in building the Boxers back into continual Northwest Conference contenders.
Brazeau's squads have seen incredible improvement, most notably over the past two seasons. The 2006 Northwest Conference Men's Soccer Coach of the Year led that year's Boxers' squad to a 10-6-1 record, the team's best mark since 1998. That team ranked as the most improved team in NCAA Division III soccer last year and the second best turnaround in all of collegiate soccer after compiling a 2-15-1 record in 2005.
In 2007, Brazeau led a young Pacific team that featured 19 underclassmen to a respectable 8-7-2 record, slipping just two wins from the 2006 season that featured eight seniors. The Boxers' fourth place finish in the 2007 NWC standings, the team's best finish since 1999.
The Boxers' rise is no surprise for Brazeau, who narrowed his focus to coaching only the men's team in 2006 after leading both the men's and women's programs for four seasons.
Under Brazeau's tutelage in 2003, the Pacific women's soccer team accomplished the best year in school history. The team's 11-8-2 was the first winning record since 1999 and set a record for wins in a season. The Boxers also succeeded in tying records for both goals and assists in match.
During his tenure with the Boxers, Brazeau has coached 17 All-Northwest Conference selections, including 2007 first team forward Danny Williams and 2006 NWC Offensive Player of the Year Matt McDonough.
Brazeau's coaching resume includes over 15 years of success coaching players at nearly every level of the game. In conjunction with his Pacific duties, Brazeau is in his seventh year as the goalkeepers coach for the Portland Timbers of the United Soccer Leagues' First Division. He also serves as the director of coaching for the Willamette United Soccer Club.
Prior to Pacific, Brazeau served as a head coach at Portland Community College and for the Oregon Youth Development Program. He has been an assistant for both Oregon State University and Jesuit High School in Portland and has served on the coaching staff with the F.C. Portland Academy.
As head of the Boxer soccer program, Brazeau's goal is to provide a quality playing experience while building quality individuals. "We have to continue building the program to a more competitive position," he said. "The goal has to be to build a quality program by giving our students the best possible learning environment and prepare them for competition."
Brazeau played two seasons for the Boxers as a defender, helping the team to the NAIA District II championship in 1986. He followed former Boxer head coach Jimmy Conway to Oregon State where he played one season as a goalkeeper, earning all-conference honors.
After leaving Corvallis, Brazeau spent six years as a professional player for the Seattle Storm outdoor team and the Washington Warthogs and Portland Pride indoor sides. As a goalie with the Pride, Brazeau was responsible for the first shutout in the history of the Continental Indoor Soccer League.
A native of Seattle, Brazeau and his wife, Wendy have a son, Chris, and a daughter, Chloe, and reside in Portland.
Jim Rilatt
Assistant
Men's Soccer Coach
Jim Rilatt, a longtime Portland area coach at all levels of the game, returns for his third season as the assistant coach for the Pacific men's soccer program.
Head coach Jim Brazeau credits the addition of Rilatt for much of the team's success over the last two season. Rilatt's superior knowledge and teaching of the defensive side of the game paid dividends as the Boxers allowed 25 goals in 2007 and 23 goals in 2006 after being scored upon 52 times in 2005.
In addition to his duties with the Boxers in the fall, Rilatt recently finished his second season as an assistant coach with the Portland Timbers professional club, which plays in the United Soccer Leagues' First Division. He also works with the Willamette United Soccer Club.
Rilatt was involved for 13 years with the F.C. Portland Soccer Academy. He served as the club's director of coaching from 2001-2005 and prior to that served as the club's associate director. He served as one of the club's coaches for 19 years, coaching teams to Oregon Youth Soccer Association (OYSA) titles 15 times. In 1994, Rilatt coached F.C. Portland to the United States Youth Soccer national title.
Rilatt last served in the college ranks in the 1992, spending one season as head women's soccer coach at Willamette. He led the now defunct Lewis & Clark men's soccer program in 1991 and spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Warner Pacific where he helped lead the Knights to a pair of NAIA District II titles.
In addition to college, Rilatt coached 14 years in the high school ranks, leading squads at Central Catholic, Barlow, Columbia River and Parkrose. He coached teams to the Oregon state quarterfinals three times and was named the Mt. Hood Conference Coach of the Year five times.
Rilatt's resume also includes work with the Oregon Olympic Development Program, the OYSA and the United Soccer Leagues' Super Y-League, a developmental league for high school players.
Rilatt lives in Beaverton and graduated from Portland State with a degree in business and education. He holds a national "A" coaching license from the United States Soccer Federation.
Jeff Grundon
Volunteer
Assistant Men's Soccer Coach
A fixture on the Pacific campus and in Boxer athletics for nearly three decades, Jeff Grundon is in his third season as a volunteer assistant coach with the Pacific men's soccer program. Grundon's duties involve providing motivational support for the Boxers and assisting in the team's recruiting efforts and strength and conditioning.
Grundon has been a fixture within Boxer athletics since he came to Pacific in 1975 as a football player. Since his playing days, Grundon served in every possible assistant coaching post with the Boxer football squad until the program was eliminated after the 1991 season. Many of his players earned both all-conference and all-American distinction.
In his full-time position as Senior Associate Director of Admissions & Athletic Liaison, Grundon serves as the main contact person for prospective students from Hawaii and northwest Oregon. Grundon also serves as the liaison between the athletic department and admissions, and assists coaches in developing plans to recruit the finest student-athletes to Forest Grove.
This October, Grundon will be inducted into the Pacific University Athletic Hall of Fame for his meritorious service to the Boxers' athletics program.
Grundon has served in varying roles in the admissions department since 1983 where he has been a very well received ambassador for the University. In a poll conducted during a January 2003 episode of Pacific's "Boxer Backtalk" radio show, one in two students and alums in the room had been recruited to Pacific by Grundon.
A native of Hawaii, Grundon serves as one of five advisors for Pacific's Hawaii Club, Na Haumana O'Hawai'i. The University's Alumni Association bestowed upon Grundon it's Outstanding Alumni Service Award in 1998 and was presented with Pacific's prestigious University Service Award in 2006.
A 1980 graduate of Pacific with a degree in communications, Grundon has three children: Michael, currently a senior at Pacific, Amber, a freshman at Pacific, and Dyllun. Jeff and his wife, Mary, live in Forest Grove.