Staff

Catherine Gordon
Is the Founder and President of Net Edge Training, LLC. Since 1999 Net Edge Training has specialized in goalkeeping training for players of all ages, from youth to collegiate.

A former USL W-League goalkeeper for the New Jersey Wildcats as well as their current goalkeeper coach. Gordon is also Division I Asst. Coach at Fairleigh Dickinson University, in Teaneck, NJ. She is also a part time Goalkeeping Coach for the City College of NY (DIII) Men's team and the boys varsity Goalkeeping Coach for the Rancocas Valley HS, 2008 State Champions and 2009 Coaches Tournament Champs. She is a Director at SGA (Star Goalkeeper Academy) and a Goalkeeper Trainer for the Red Bulls RDS program.
Gordon has over 25 years experience between the pipes. A graduate of Purdue University. As an athlete she was a letter winner in four varsity sports during high school and throughout her athletic career has received dozens of awards from Golden Glove, All Tourney to MVP. She played basketball in college for Ft.Lewis College DII and concluded her collegiate career playing soccer her senior year for the Boilermakers Soccer Club.

Gordon holds a USSF “C” License and a NSCAA Advanced National Goalkeeping Diploma. She also serves as an Asst. goalkeeper coach and evaluator for the NJYS Olympic Development Program (ODP), a CIT for Region I ODP and is a Certified Trainer for Positive Coaching Alliance(PCA).

“ It is all about the athlete and their opportunity to develop and excel on and off the pitch. My goal is to bring the best and most current practices, strategies, resources and enthusiasm from these varied sources to today's Goalkeepers"
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USSF “C” License
USSF Referee
NSCAA Advanced National Goalkeeping Diploma
NSCAA Member
US Soccer Foundation Member
Women's Sports Foundation Member

“To some challenges are exhausting. To others, they are opportunities in waiting” -Tony DiCicco-

Lissette Brandao, Field Player Specialist

Lisette Brandao is owner and operator of Brandao Soccer training. Brandao is currently the captain of the New Jersey Wildcats of the W-League. She is also a member of the Portugal Women's National Soccer Team, having recently played in the 2011 Algarve Cup the World Cup qualifying game against Armenia in August 2010. In 2008-09, Lissette was the head coach of the Johnson Regional High School girl's soccer team in Clark, New Jersey, which compiled a final record of 29-7-4 over the past two seasons. Lissette coaches several club teams within Union and Middlesex. Lissette graduated from Rutgers University with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and a Master's degree in Special/Elementary Education. She resides in South Plainfield, New Jersey.

USSF National Licensed Coach
NSCAA Advanced National Diploma

Kirsten Byrnes: Goalkeeping Specialist

Kirsten Byrnes is a former assistant and Goalkeeping coach at Saint Peter’s. An alumnus of Saint Peter’s, she served as goalkeeper for the ’94-’97 teams, contributing to clinching MAAC Tournament berths in two consecutive years. Despite graduating in 1997, she is still listed as one of the MAAC’s All-Time Leading Goalkeepers for her ’96 performance which began with a scoreless streak spanning six games.Since graduating from Saint Peter’s, Byrnes has worked in the development of Goalkeepers of all ages. Additionally, she served as Assistant Coach at Middlesex County College for their 2003 and 2004 seasons. she also was the for both the boys and girls goalkeepers for Gill St. Bernard in 2006, where both teams finished off the 2006 season as Patriot Conference Champions, with both keepers earning All-Prep B, All-Conference and additional honors.

Byrnes graduated with a degree in business management from Saint Peter’s and a Master’s in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She is currently pursuing a Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at Long Island University’s CW Post Campus. She has had her United States Soccer Federation "D" license since 2000.

Chris Charnecky Goalkeeper Specialist

Chris is currently the Head Coach at Mount Saint Dominic Academy (Caldwell, NJ). He was named the 2007 coach of the year Middlesex Conference (MA). He has been coaching and training goalkeepers at the youth level for the prior 8 years. Chris played his collegiate soccer at Fairleigh Dickinson University (Teaneck, NJ). Chris received all league, county and state honors while earning a state title at Pompton Lakes High School where he lettered in three varsity sports.

This past season Chris won the 2010 USASA National Championship Cup with his club team Boston Olympiakos.

Melanie Pierson Goalkeeper Specialist We are happy to have Melanie Pierson join Net Edge training as a Goalkeeper trainer. She has the qualities Net Edge looks for in our GK Specialists, good knowledge of the position, clear and concise as a trainer and good ability to analysis the needs of the keeper.Pierson graduated from Mendham High School in 2008 earning 4 varsity letters in soccer and softball. In soccer she was named First Team All-County, First Team All-Conference, First Team All-Area, and All-State. Pierson helped her team win a Conference, County and State-Sectional Championship. Currently she attending Fairleigh Dickinson University-College at Florham, majoring in Hospitality. In 2009 as a sophomore she was named to the MAC Fall All-Academic Team.