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Notre Dame Alum (2006) and Detroit City FC Goalkeeper Featured by Club

By Detroit City FC

When Detroit City FC fans arrive at Cass Tech, Bret Mollon '06 (NDP) is one of the most recognizable figures. His neon green jersey radiates the northern penalty box, and as his teammates pound shot after shot his direction during warm-ups, City's go-to goalkeeper flies between the pipes.

Mollon's commanding presence behind the defensive line has earned him the starting job for Le Rouge for the past few summers, but when he isn't shutting down NPSL forwards, the Washington, Mich. native has another job.

Since August of 2013, Mollon has been an assistant coach at Coastal Carolina University (CCU). After his first season for DCFC, Mollon began his coaching career for the Chanticleer men's and women's programs. When he played in the Premier Development League, prior to joining Le Rouge, one of Mollon's friends was an assistant at CCU, and invited him down to Myrtle Beach. Soon after, Mollon became Coastal's goalkeeper coach.

Already a top-notch keeper, Mollon has found that his experience as a coach advances his game even further. "It helps me get a lot better just sitting through all the meetings with the coaches, organizing practices, going through film, and realizing formations," Mollon said. "It's helped me transition between a coach and a player."

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From Northern Michigan to South America and Back Again

Carly Joseph has always been an athlete. She loves to run and her time at Notre Dame included significant contributions to Irish softball and cross-country teams. But it seems her physical endeavors are picking up the pace even more just as her academics demand more and more of her time and attention.

Joseph is currently pursuing degrees in biomedical engineering and international Spanish from Michigan Tech, located in the state's upper peninsula. However, her studies now have her in Valparaiso, Chile, where she's taking Spanish at the Pontifical Catholic University. When her day is done in the classroom, Joseph heads to the nearest mountain.

It's not the first time she's been on the mountains in South America.  

After many years of competitive snowboarding, she made a transition into backcountry snowboarding toward the end of her time at NDP. Since then, she said she's grown to love mountain sports in a whole new way. "In 2013, I took my first avalanche safety certification course. In 2014, I became a Wilderness First Responder. This year, 2015, started with an unsupported 35-day mountaineering expedition in the back country of Chilean Patagonia."

To read more on Joseph's story, click here.