 Currently, Coach Brule is the Director of Coaching for the Southeast Soccer Club, Founder and Director of Connecticut Coast Soccer and Head Coach of the Waterford High School girls’ soccer team (1994-present) and currently holds a NSCAA Advanced Regional Diploma.He has coached Waterford to 10 Eastern Connecticut Conference Championships in the past 11 years. His nine consecutive championships is the longest running streak of any active or inactive soccer coach in the Eastern Connecticut Conference. Coach Brule has been selected Coach of the Year in 2001, 2002, and 2006 and has taken a program from 0-16 to 16-0 in just twelve years. Over the past 11 seasons at Waterford High School, Coach Brule has accumulated a staggering 145-25-13 overall record and his high school team has advanced to the quarterfinals of the state tournament 6 of the past 9 seasons. Since 2001, Coach Brule has been an active member of the Connecticut Girls Soccer Coaches Association (CGSCA) and sits on the NSCAA All-American Selection Committee, the NSCAA All-New England Selection Committee, the “Gatorade” Connecticut State Player of the Year Selection Committee and the Connecticut High School Senior Bowl Selection Committee. From 2001-2004, he served as Vice President of the CGSCA and currently acts as the Eastern Connecticut Conference’s League Representative to the Connecticut Girls Soccer Coaches Association. In addition to his coaching responsibilities to the CGSCA, Coach Brule has coached in the Southeast Premier Club for the past 3 years and currently coaches the Southeast U14G and U19G soccer teams. During his coaching career, Coach Brule has produced 3 Eastern Connecticut Conference Players of the Year, 4 Norwich Bulletin Players of the Year, 3 New London Day Players of the Year, 13 CGSCA All-State players, 34 All-Area players, 55 All-Conference players and 8 Connecticut Senior Bowl players. As of 2009, 11 of his players have gone on to play competitively at the collegiate level, 5 Division I scholarship players, 2 Division II players and 4 Division III players. Most notably, from 2002-2005, he coached and mentored Katie Schoepfer, who was selected in the 3rd Round of the 2009 WPS Draft (26th Overall) by the 2009 defending Womens Professional Soccer (WPS) League Champion, New York/New Jersey Sky Blue FC. Katie played for Penn State University and is a current member of the U23 National Team. She was selected a two-time NSCAA All-American, was named the 2009 Big Ten Player of the Year. At Waterford High School, Katie was recognized as it's first US National Team player (U15, U17), first female soccer player at Waterford High School selected All-American, first Connecticut "Gatorade" High School Soccer Player of the Year and first athlete to be featured in Sports Illustrated "Faces in the Crowd". In 2002, he led Waterford to it's first State Championship Final appearance, outscored opponents 90-10, finished the season at 17-2-1 and ended the season ranked 10th in Connecticut's Adidas/Coaches Final Soccer Poll and one of the Eastern Connecticut Conference’s most talented girls high school soccer teams ever assembled. Katie holds the state of Connecticut's career goals record (157).In addition to coaching the Waterford High School girls' soccer team and the Southeast (CT) Premier Soccer Club's U14G and U19G teams, Coach Brule is the founder of Connecticut Coast Soccer, established in 1994. He has been the Director of the Connecticut Coast Soccer Clinic in Waterford, CT and High School Team Week Soccer Clinics throughout southeastern Connecticut, since their inception. Coach Brule completed his USSF National "D" License course.
Coach Brule holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology with a minor in Psychology, from the University of Maine, where he was a Division I scholarship player from 1986-1990. In 1986, his University of Maine mens soccer team was the North Atlantic Conference Champions. Coach Brule played semi-professionally for the Moodus Rowdies and Waterford Xara of the Connecticut Soccer League, winning 4 consecutive Connecticut Soccer League Championships in 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1994.
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