Coach Reggie Askew & Coach David

 

​Coach Reggie Askew

 

When he isn’t constructing commercial buildings or restructuring apartment complexes, Reggie Askew is the year round Head Coach of the Southside Heat U18 Girls Soccer team. An accomplished soccer player himself, Askew excelled in high school, before going on to play for Auburn University (Montgomery, Alabama) and Tuskegee University. During the off-season in his stomping grounds of Philadelphia, PA, Askew bounced around the club circuit, as he was recruited heavily by local business owners vying for the most outstanding team(s) in the city.

“A lot of those guys were very passionate about it,” he recalls. “They would build the best teams, full of high school players and college players, especially in the summer and local kids in the fall. It was extremely competitive. They were stealing players from each other. So it was pretty serious. That’s probably the closest I came to being a professional soccer player.”

These days Askew continues to carry out his love for the game with the Southside Heat, who he successfully coached to an undefeated season in his first year as head coach. He’d previously served as an assistant since 2008.

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