Matt Goto

Coach Matt is an avid lover of all athletics. He believes each sport has skills and traits which not only help the individual in that sport, but can transition to success in other sports as well. The multi-sport athlete is something he believes strongly in and will continue to encourage youth to try and play as many sports as possible.

Coach Goto grew up in Tustin, CA where he attended Foothill High School. While there he played Football, basketball, baseball, lacrosse and ran track. Coach Goto was named the team MVP his senior year in Football and won an Orange County Title in lacrosse. Coach Goto was lucky enough to play a multitude of positions throughout his football career. He was a quarterback and defensive-back playing flag football as a youth. Throughout his high school football career he played tight-end, running back, wide receiver, cornerback, and linebacker. In college Coach Goto played safety. With the experience of playing all these positions, Coach Goto can help build the complete football player, no matter the position.

Coach Goto attended Chapman University, where he played football, lacrosse and majored in Liberal Studies, with an emphasis in mathematics. While at Chapman he was named an All-American in lacrosse and received his teaching credential and Masters in Education.

Coaching is a passion he found early in life, as he has been coaching sports for over 20 years, ranging from elementary students to the collegiate level. Most recently Coach Goto has coached high school football and lacrosse and girls youth flag football in Costa Mesa.

Currently he teaches at Foothill High School in Tustin, his Alma Mater, and is a Varsity Assistant Coach on campus. Matt believes the art of teaching and coaching are one in the same, both helping to build pillars of success in the structure of the “student athlete”. Teaching skills and experience help him scaffold practice plans and find ways to break down the sport and movements to digestible parts young athletes can comprehend and replicate.

Coach Matt’s believes breaking down the details of fag football. Sports have a lot of moving parts, thus detail must be taken to get all those moving parts to work as one. It is with this concept in mind that he coaches, helping athletes put the small things together in hopes of creating the desired result.

Matt brings years of coaching experience across all sports mediums and a desire to help young athletes learn and build confidence.