Clegg Steps Down from SDSU Soccer Program

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Dec. 12, 2003

By Mark Zeigler
San Diego Union-Tribune

SAN DIEGO - Chuck Clegg, the winningest head coach in San Diego State history for both its men's and women's soccer programs, announced his sudden retirement yesterday to "devote my full energies to my family."

Clegg had the longest tenure of SDSU's current head coaches and one of the longest ever at the school. He played on the 1970 team, left for military service in Vietnam, then played from 1974-76 before beginning his coaching career - first as a men's assistant, then as the men's head coach and since 2000 as exclusively the women's head coach.

Clegg said his adult son suffered a massive stroke from an electrical shock while working in 1998 and the subsequent brain injury requires full-time care. In addition, his wife has had "severe health issues" in recent years.

"I just cannot do what a Division I coach needs to do and still take care of my family," Clegg, 52, said last night. "I've always put San Diego State first. But I have to be fair to my family and have a job that allows me to be home more. It just reached a point where a decision had to be made."

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