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Guy Lockwood, right, next to former Rams teammate Matt Kmosko.  
During his playing days with Southern Regional High School and Monmouth University,
was best known for his ability to make pinpoint passes and score goals.  
Today, he has come full-circle and now coaches a local youth traveling soccer team.


Former standout still loves game, now enjoys coaching
by SEAN FAWCETT - Correspondent to the Times-Beacon - November 6, 2002

    Fathers coaching sons. It's all the same really, whether it be in
baseball, football, hockey, basketball, or, soccer-it's a kind of Walt
Disney-esque, 'Cirle of Life' sort of thing.
    One local contributing with that age-old tradition is Guy Lockwood.
   Lockwood, 30, a father of three, a Manahawkin resident and a business
manager with Residential Communications Network in Manhattan, New York
City, does what so many dedicated others have done so many times before
him by balancing a full-time career while coaching his 10-year old son,
Sean, and their FC Under-11 Barnegat Hornets scocer team.
   A recent inductee into the Southern Regional High School Athletic
Hall of Fame, the former Ram and four-time Northeast Conference NCAA
Division 1 defender for Monmouth University doesn't stop with coaching
either-he still plays the game, too.
   Lockwood, who played professionally with the New Jersey Imperials,
now plays with the Garden State Soccer League's Berkeley-Toms River
squad that plays its home matches at Toms River East High School. With
home games almost every other Sunday morning, Guy plays with his team
and then goes home on Sunday afternoons and coaches Sean's traveling
team.
    " Sunday is still soccer day for me," said Lockwood. " It's a lot of
hard work, but it's worth it. I still love to play, and I love to
coach."
   " Guy is really a great coach," said Hornets father Chris Peters.
Peters, who is also a vice principal at Pinelands Regonal High School,
has known Guy for nearl twelve years going back to his playing days at
Southern.
   " I knew Guy when he played at Southern," said Peters. " A lot of
good players don't always make the best coaches, but Guy is the
exception. He's fiery. The kids love playing for him."
   Members of Lockwood's two-time champion, and last season's runner-up,
team include son Sean, Kevin Peters, Erik Cunningham, Ryan Zanzalari,
Ben Stambaugh, Eddie Siciliano, Cody Kirk, Matt Johnson, Robert and
Jordan Tucker, Anthony Callahan, Tyler White, Connor Josephsen, Anthony
and Patrick LeFanto and Patrick Kopps.
    Lockwood began his coaching career shortly after graduating from
Southern Regional High School in 1990, by helping his high school coach,
Andy Kmosko, instruct the Stafford Alliance All-American summer soccer
camps. Lockwood continued every summer after that, too, helping out his
Monmouth University college coach Wayne Ramsay. Ramsay recruited
Lockwood for MU, having coached boys and girls soccer at Pinelands
Regional High School in Tuckerton from 1983 through 1996.
   " I started right after my senior year," said Lockwood. " I helped
Coach Kmosko, and then every summer with Coach Ramsay at the
All-American camps at Monmouth.
   " It was a lot of fun, Lockwood said. " It's really rewarding to be
able to teach so many young kids how to play soccer. I love it."
   Lockwood loved it so much, in fact, that he continued on coaching
even after graduating from Monmouth in 1994 with a degree in Accounting.
Lockwood's first team was an Under-9 soccer squad in Maplewood, in
southern Essex County. Guy coached the team from 1995 through 1997,
while at the very same time playing one season for the NJ Imperials
under former Farleigh Dickinson head coach Mark Shearer.
   " It's really no surprise to me that Guy has gotten into coaching,"
said Southern head coach Andy Kmosko, whose son, Matt, played with and
graduated with Lockwood from Southern in 1990. " Even when he was a
player, he, Matt, a lot of the guys would just run their own practices.
I could be in a meeting after school and sometimes just tell them what
to do, and they would just do it-oftentimes without even being told.
Those boys lived and breathed soccer."
   Lockwood still ranks as the team's all-time No.1 assist leader with
34, and in September he joined Matt Kmosko and another fellow teammate,
Jack Maggion, as only the sixth Southern soccer player, boy or girl,  to
be named to the school's Athletic Hall of Fame. One of the Rams'
starting center midfielders, Lockwood led the Rams to a 13-5 record in
his senior year, and was named the team's Best Offensive Player with 18
assists as he and his teammates earned for themselves a share of the
Shore Conference Class A South title.
  " Lock was the heartbeat of our team, there's no doubt about it,"
Kmosko said. " He was a leader, and he was our leading assist man. He
made a lot of the good things that happened for us happen. We wouldn't
have been able to do half of what we did then without him."
   Lockwood still has high regard for his mentor.
   " Coach Kmosko definitely was a big influence on me-in coaching, and
in everything else, too," Lockwood said. " I remember the long rides
with him and Matt, and always talking soccer. Being inducted into the
Southern Hall of Fame was because of him and I thank him. He's been a
big supporter of mine, and he continues to be."
   " Being inducted into the Hall of Fame meant an awful lot," Lockwood
continued. " I was thrilled, for myself, my wife, Jeannette, my family,
my friends, and my teammates. That night was even more special because
my son, Sean, was there with his team. It was a night I'll never
forget."
  As Lockwood looks toward the future, he also remembers the past.
  " Soccer's been a big part of my family for a long time," he said. "
My parents(Sam and Linda) drove me all up and down the state since I was
nine. They never missed a game. Now they come and watch me coach Sean.
They did it all for me. Now it's my turn."