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Mr. Kodama is the Director of K-sports Soccer Camps and the Director of Sales for Vidigami (Collaborative Media Management for Schools and Organizations).
He has been a Certified Master Gurian Trainer since 2007 and was a member of the Boys Initiative Board of Advisors. He is the former Director of Admissions, marketing, enrollment management and International Admissions Programming at Crespi High School. He was the boys head soccer coach at Crespi High School (from 1995-2015). Prior to coaching at Crespi Carmelite High School, Coach Kodama was the head Girls Varsity coach at John Burroughs High School in Burbank, CA. While at Burroughs he was named the Foothill League Coach of the Year and won the only Foothill league title in the schools history of girls soccer. He has also coached in the Olympic Development Program and was part of the Occidental Womens Coaching Staff. As a coach, he has worked with boys and girls as young as 4, through college. He has been running soccer camps, clinics, and coaching both club and high school soccer for over 30 years throughout the Los Angeles area. Many of his players have gone on to play at the collegiate level, but more importantly most return as contributing adults to our society. As the founder of K-Sports Soccer Camps he has been training young soccer players since 1991. The first camps were conducted in Burbank, CA. Since then the camps have blossomed, creating a fun, family oriented, atmosphere teaching boys and girls to love the game of soccer. He was most recently the head coach for the North Valley Soccer Club Breakaway girls 2006 and 2003. Coach Kodama developed student athletes at Crespi Carmelite High School for 20 years from 1995-2015. There have been numerous players that have been high school Academic All-Americans, All-Americans, and Regional All-Americans. The Varsity Soccer team received the National Soccer Coaches Association Academic Team award 10 of the last 12 years. Success on and off the field is the key to success in the soccer program. In 2008-09 the Celts were ranked top 50 in the nation by ESPN. He has won more games than any other soccer coach in the history of the program. The Celts are a member of the highly competitive Mission League and compete at the CIF Division I level. As a certified master trainer and teacher, Mr. Kodama brings a wide variety of experience working with children, parents, students, and athletes. He has been training parents and schools about how boys and girls learn differently and how to help them succeed in school since 2007. He has been a Keynote Speaker at Pierce College in Woodland Hills for the Early Childhood Development program, Live365, and in Washington D.C. for the Council on Standards for International Educational Travel (CSIET). He has presented multiple times at The Gurian Summer Institute in Colorado Springs, and has worked with the following schools and organizations: Albany Schools (NY), Southwest Leadership Academy Charter School (Philadelphia), Deanery 5 (San Fernando Valley), Berkeley School, Crossroads Christian, Serra High School, Encino Presbyterian Children’s Center, St. Mel’s School, Kirk of the Valley School, Laurel Hall, Weekday Preschool, Young Oak Kim Academy, Our Lady of Malibu, Palma High School, St. John Eudes, St. Cyril's, and Army Navy Academy. He has also been part of the panel of experts for Kids in The House. He taught a revolutionary course titled ”Becoming a Man” to seniors at the school (2004-2022). In this innovative class, he challenges his students to look at what it truly means to become a man in our society. He explores what their roles are as sons, brothers, fathers, husbands, and mentors. The course helps teenage boys to define their purpose in life. He has presented the class at the Gurian Institute at the Summer Institute. He has served as the social studies department chair, and taught World Cultural Geography, US History, AP Macroeconomics, Micro Economics, and World History. Be sure to check out my videos done for Kids in the House! http://www.kidsinthehouse.com/expert/rob-kodama |
