Coaching Staff
BOYS
DANIEL DOLLINGER | BOYS HEAD COACH
Coach Dollinger has been the Frisco High School Men’s Head Coach from 2004-present. His coaching experience ranges from high school to club. He has been active in a leadership role for the high school soccer coaches association. He holds a USSF National “D” coaches license and NSCAA advanced regional and national diploma. When he’s not coaching or watching his kids play, you can find him out on the soccer field refereeing boys and girls Classic League games.
Coach Dollinger’s coaching accomplishments include: 2012-2015 TASCO Region II Director; 2015 TASCO Region II Senior Showcase Coach; 2012 TASCO Region II Senior Showcase Coach; Texas Spirit Staff Coach 2015-2017 (’99 Girls, ’01 Boys); Andromeda FC Staff Coach 2011-2013 (’98 Boys); ASG Futbol Club Staff Coach 2006-2011 (’98 Boys); Andromeda Soccer Club Staff Coach 1999-2006 (’89, ’90, ’95 Boys); McKinney High School Boys JV/ Assistant Varsity Coach 1999-2004; Stillwater High School Boys JV/ Assistant Varsity Coach 1997-1999.
His coaching honors/awards include: 2008 District 11-4A Coach of the Year; 2007 TASCO Region II Coach of the Year; 2006 District 6-4A Coach of the Year; 2005 TASCO Region II Senior Showcase Coach.
As a player, he was part of the following teams: Oklahoma State 95-99 (Big XII Champions 95, Ed Chartrand Memorial Champions 96); McKinney High School 1992-1994; Andromeda SC (Dallas Cup 94, 95); Longhorns Soccer Club (Dallas Cup 91, 92, 93).
Daniel is married to his wife, Theresa, and has two kids, Hannah and Cooper, who both play club soccer.
JOE PAYNE | BOYS ASSISTANT COACH
Coach Payne began his soccer coaching career while student teaching in college as the girls’ varsity and JV soccer coach for two years at Davenport HS in Davenport, Iowa. From there, he went on to coach a boy’s club team for three years in Moline, Illinois. In 1994, he and his wife moved to Dallas, where he was the boy’s club coach for the Arlington Strikers U12 and U19 teams from 1994-98. His final club coaching stint was for the ‘84 Texas Spirit from 1999-2003. In their last year, the team finished first place in their division with half the team moving on to play collegiately.
In 2006, Coach Payne became the Girls’ Assistant Coach at Centennial HS, where he taught from 2004 to 2018 and coached from 2006-2015. Coach Payne has his USSF National “D” coaching license and played club soccer in his youth in Illinois and Nebraska. In high school, he was named all state his senior year and played collegiately for four years at Marycrest College, an NAIA Division I school. In college, he was a four year starter and captained the team his junior and senior years. He teaches AP English, is married, has two children who have graduated from Heritage HS in Frisco, and continues to live the dream by playing soccer on an over-40 competitive team.
GIRLS
Jaime LEraas | GIRLS Head Coach
Coach Jaime Leraas was born to play soccer. From a very young age, she was trained to sniff out the ball and put it in the back of the net. She played forward for JJ Pearce High School in her formative years and out of necessity became a goalie in her final year of high school. Heralded as the starting goalkeeper for the UIL Texas High School All-Century team, Coach Leraas went on to play for The University of Texas at Austin. She quickly became the University’s record holder for saves, shutouts, wins, and all-around awesomeness.
She began coaching straight out of college at Plano West Senior High School, winning the Texas Class 5A state championship in only her second year as an assistant coach. She then began the Frisco girls soccer program in 2000 and has been Frisco's head coach ever since. She took her 2004 team to the state tournament, and just a few years ago was ousted late in the playoffs by eventual champion and her alma mater, JJ Pearce.
In addition to soccer, Coach Leraas also played basketball in high school. At UT Austin, she was a scholarship athlete and majored in Kinesiology and minored in Education and Psychology. She played Division I youth soccer for over 7 years on the D'Feeters ‘76 team. In addition to coaching Frisco High School Girls Varsity Soccer team, Coach Leraas has also coached club with Andromeda.
Matt Owings | GIRLS assistant coach
Matt Owings grew up in the northern suburbs of Chicago, and then made his way south and attended college at Washington University in St. Louis. Having played soccer his whole life, he began coaching while student teaching in St. Louis. Since 2007, Coach Owings has been the Assistant Coach for Frisco High Ladies Varsity and is also the ladies JV coach.
During back-to-back runs to the Regional finals, Coach Owings was named the regional Assistant Coach of the Year. He teaches mathematics (AQR & Statistics). Matt has been married to Maegan for over seven years, and they have two Shih Tzu puppies named Mylo and Otis. Coach Owings is excited about the season!