J. Adam Frederick
SRU Class of 1986 / SRU Soccer Ring of Honor 2013
J. ADAM FREDERICK, a four-year starter as goalie for The Rock men’s soccer team, earned two All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference honors and was named as a National Soccer Coaches Association of America all-region performer in both his junior and senior seasons.
Frederick led the PSAC in saves per game in both his junior and senior seasons and concluded his Rock soccer with 16 career shutouts. Frederick was in goal every minute of The Rock’s 1984 and 1985 seasons, including the PSAC championship game vs. East Stroudsburg in 1985.
Frederick continued to play competitive soccer after college and played 14 seasons as goalie for the Walkersville Soccer Club in the Mason-Dixon Soccer League, where he joined other Rock graduates to lead his team to two league championships and numerous appearances in the championship game. He also served as keeper for the Maryland Area Police Futsal team that competed in international tournaments throughout the U.S. and in Holland, highlighted by a championship effort in a 38-team international tournament in 1999 at American University in suburban Washington, D.C.
After receiving his bachelor’s degree in 1986 as a biology/education major at SRU, Frederick taught and coached at Walkersville High School in Maryland, where he was the school’s first girls soccer head coach. Frederick served in that role for one season before taking the boys soccer head coaching job at Walkersville, a role in which he remained until 1995, when he took a job at the University of Maryland Sea Grant College in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor area.
Frederick has coached club soccer with FC Frederick for the last 10 seasons and is a director of the club’s goalkeeping academy that has produced NCAA Division I, II and III net minders.
Frederick currently lives, appropriately enough, in Frederick, Md., with his wife, Lisa, and their three children, Christopher, David and Elaina.
