Soccer coach Arlan Vomhof celebrates 400th year of collective coaching

In fact, it was a milestone; head soccer coach Arlan Vomhof held his 400th collective victory in the palm of his hand.

In his time coaching the Topeka Seaman boys and girls soccer team, Vomhof racked up around 50 victories.

Vomhof said it felt strange to have reached the milestone of 400 victories.

“You have years that you have a stellar team, then you have years that you struggle with talent,” Vomhof said.

For the past 12 years of being under Vomhof’s wing and developing a relationship with Vomhof and his family, senior Adam Grube felt good to have played the past season and contributed to the 400th victory.

While he couldn’t attribute his success to anything in particular, Vomhof felt like the biggest success overall was “getting players to produce or be better players than they think they are.” head soccer coach Arlan Vomhof Throughout the past 21 years of victories, ties, losses and countless hours of practice, Vomhof said his biggest supporter was his family.

Along with learning to have a sense of humor, Grube believes Vomhof passed on the notion that any victory comes through hard work.

From Vomhof’s perspective, a good coach listens to the players with an open mind, and his main philosophy is to “carry the classroom out to the field” because he wants his players to apply the ideas he teaches anywhere they go.