Trojans Name Zar Goalkeeper Coach

LITTLE ROCK – Htut Zar will be joining the Little Rock soccer team as a new assistant coach, Coach Adrian Blewitt announced on Thursday.
 
Zar will be the Trojans' goalkeeper coach this fall and also help the staff with video editing.
 
"Htut brings with him great knowledge of the game having played for his national team and has earned a variety of high-level coaching licenses," Blewitt said. "His personality and passion for the game is infectious. He's a superb addition to our staff."
 
Zar joins the Trojans after spending the last year as the assistant men's soccer coach and head men's tennis coach at the University of Minnesota Morris. While working with the Cougars, Zar put an emphasis on goalkeeper training and put together an interactive team-building program. He also established the program's first summer youth camp and oversaw academic progress for his student-athletes.
 
Before that, Zar filled a variety of roles in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Zar served as a physical education teach at Mount Vernon City School and was also a soccer coach for the high school team. Also while in Ohio, he was an assistant to the athletic trainer at Mount Vernon Nazarene University, supervising gameday management, coordinating rehab for student-athletes and supervising student athletic trainers.
 
Zar also brings coaching experience from the club level, as he coached a U-14/15 travel team in Mount Vernon from 2007-2009. With the Stings Soccer Club, he focused on goalkeeper training and attacking and defending strategies.
 
Zar, a native of Burma (Myanmar), earned his Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Rangoon in Rangoon, Burma, in 1999. He also earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Exercise Science and Sports Management from Mount Vernon Nazarene in 2013 and a Master of Science in Coaching Education from Ohio University in 2016.