Tommy Biggs - BACKGROUND & BIOGRAPHICAL INFOMATION
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 Tommy Biggs is a 6 feet 2 inch tall, 170 pound sophomore (Class of 2018) soccer goalkeeper. He is a talented, skilled and athletic goalie, that demonstrates a independent leadership, while remaining extremely coachable. He is an attentive listener and a student of the position. Like all good students, he excels in the classroom and in the locker room. Tommy is driven to compete and thrives on the opportunity to take on and shut down a one-on-one break away. Tommy likes the challenge. You can read more about these attributes from what his current and former coaches have to say about him. Tommy attends Trinity School of Durham & Chapel Hill, where he has attended school since kindergarten. Trinity is a K through 12 Christian school focused on a traditional and classical education. While at Trinity, Tommy has excelled academically, socially and athletically. As an extremely athletic young man, Tommy is also a member of the basketball team and the track team. Make no mistake about it, SOCCER is and always been his true passion. Some people find their peace on a boat, on a mountain side or on the beach - Tommy finds peace in the box. CONTINUE READING . . .Click Here To See An Interview with Tommy Biggs Tommy began playing soccer at the age of three, when his birthday did not technically allow him to play on his older sister's team. Therefore, he practiced with them, but had to sit out on game day. The following year he began to play in earnest. He has had a soccer ball on his feet ever since. From the age of 7, until present he has played club soccer for the Triangle Futbol Club (TFC). After a couple of successful mergers, the club is now known as Triangle Futbol Club (TFCA). Tommy began playing full time in goal at the age of 9 and has never looked back. Often training with older goal keepers (because of the lack of younger goal keepers), Tommy was able to increase his skills through working with bigger and older players. Tommy has always been on the big side of his classmates and teammates. At 6"1" and 165 pounds he is still growing. In the summer of 2015, he gained 20 pounds of muscle through hard work and dedication to training. EIGHTH GRADETeams:TFCA u99 Navy - Coach Brian ClarkeTommy came to this club-wide regional team as one of two players to make the team from Durham County. As TFCs top team in the age group, he had to compete for and win playing time. At the beginning of the season, the other keeper on the team had been the coach's keeper the prior year and was a known commodity. While it took a part of the fall season to gain the confidence of the team and his coach, Tommy earned a spot as the preferred keeper on the team. In having an on goal percentage of 7.58% with a goal against average of 0.62, Tommy proved himself amongst a team of new teammates. During this season, he also had a clean sheet in 16 of the 26 games in which he played and led the team to the semi-finals of the NCYSA state tournament before losing in extra time to the eventual state champions. The highlight of the year was In the quarter finals as the number eight seed, they faced the number one seed. Tommy posted a clean sheet in a 1-0 game, in which the opponent shot 34 times and Tommy had 26 saves. Trinity School Junior Varsity - Coach Jeff Low Trinity School has a middle school team for 7-8 graders. Tommy made the middle school team as a 6th grader and played on that team in the seventh grade as well. In the eighth grade, he was one of three eight graders to make the junior Varsity team and became their starting goal keeper for the first game. Trinity School does not keep stats for the Junior Varsity sports, but Tommy was one of the highlights. On a team that struggled to score. it put a lot of pressure on the defense and the goalkeeper. It is safe to say that Tommy received plenty of action. ODP - Olympic Development ProgramTommy participated in the ODP program for the entire year. With a December birthday, Tommy was the youngest player in the Goalkeeper pool. He did not make one of the top two teams, but remained in the ODP for the entire season as an alternate. He remained one of the top 8 goalkeepers in the age group for the state ODP program.OtherTommy missed two and a half weeks of both the school and the club season with a broken arm, which he suffered saving a “would-be” game winning goal in extra time of a game in the TFCA Columbus Classic Tournament against CASL Del Sol. Tommy preserved the tie, but lost the next two and half weeks of action. The doctors initially suggested that Tommy would be out 4-6 weeks, but he returned to action as soon as his arm healed sufficiently to play in a splint instead of a cast.NINTH GRADETeams:TFCA u99 Select - Coach Steven CurfmanTommy began the season as one of two keepers on the team. They shared time equally throughout the season and became each other's best supporter, best trainer and best teammate. Tommy excelled in this season, half the time being the starter and half the time being the closer. In a season that was shortened by injury, Tommy played in 14 games tallying 11 clean sheets and only one game with multiple goals. Of the five goals scored on Tommy this year, three were in the same game. His on goal percentage was an amazing 4.42% and his goal against average was 0.36. The only thing that could hold Tommy back was injury, which often finds a goalkeeper who thrives on defending the one on one break away. Tommy was sidelined March 22 of the spring season with a concussion and was held out through the NYCSA state championship game, which they lost 3-1. Trinity School Junior Varsity - Coach Jeff Low Trinity School Varsity (Part Time) - Coach Mason Goss Tommy began the school year as one of two credible keepers at Trinity. The other keeper happened to be a senior and returning starter. The question would be whether Tommy would get playing time on the Varsity team as a freshman and displace the returning senior starter, or play with his classmates and get more playing time. Tommy did both. He began the year and started the first 3 games for the Varsity team, while he also started for the Junior Varsity. While Tommy was certainly tall enough to play Varsity, his body had not physically matured enough to bang with the wider and stronger seniors on the field. He suffered an injury in the third game of the Varsity season and was out for two weeks, relinquishing the position to the senior. This experience made Tommy vow to come back bigger and stronger for his sophomore campaign. In the off-season, after the club season, Tommy gained over 20 pounds of muscle to his 6' 1" frame. The remainder of the year, after returning from injury, Tommy started for the Junior Varsity team and remained available for the Varsity team as needed. Tommy's team struggled at the Junior Varsity level again this year, putting him in harms way and giving him plenty of action. In the last 4 games of the season, the opposing team shot on Trinity and Tommy 57 - 52 - 47 - 44 times - a total of 198 times in four games. These numbers are "unofficial" because Trinity does not stat Junior Varsity. Unofficial or not, they were very real shots. With two of those games being one goal games, those 198 shots on goal resulted in only 10 goals. ODP - Olympic Development ProgramTommy participated in the ODP program for the entire year. With a December birthday, Tommy was the youngest player in the Goalkeeper pool. He did not make one of the top two teams, but remained in the ODP for the entire season as an alternate. He remained one of the top 8 goalkeepers in the age group for the state ODP program.OtherTommy began a much more extensive workout regime for physical training and to improve his size, strength and durability. This also includes private training with a special goalie coach, with an emphasis on skills (of course) but also self-defense to avoid injury.TENTH GRADETeams:TFCA u99 Select - Coach Steven CurfmanTrinity School Varsity - Coach Mason Goss The Tenth Grade is just beginning, more information will be added here as the season develops. |