Without a doubt, women’s soccer coach Oliver Germond has had a fantastic career at Fresno City College.

He has accomplished a lot — from making multiple final-four appearances to winning the National Soccer Coaches Association National Coach of the Year.

Now he has another accomplishment under his belt. He’s won a career 245 games during his tenure at FCC.

“I feel blessed to work for such a great school and have been able to work here for the past 15 years,” said Germond. “I’ve been lucky to have such talented, hard working student athletes. I’m just the coach; the wins are earned by the players.”

In his 15 seasons at FCC, Germond has won the Central Valley Conference title eight times. He has had more than 60 soccer players transfer to four-year colleges since his first year at FCC in 2000.

“I also do everything I possibly can to give them the best opportunities to move on and give them opportunities to play at the four-year level,” he said. “I just work hard hoping our student-athletes will see that if they work hard, they will succeed at anything.”

Germond’s success has come through hard work and dedication to his team, the college and most importantly his players.

The coach said his best accomplishments include each time his team has gotten to the final four, but particularly one year, early on in his career at FCC.

“We beat Lassen College who was stacked with international kids and the No. 1 seed that year, going undefeated,” he said. “We beat them in the freezing weather as the No. 8 seed. I could have made a movie from that win.”

He said it was such an amazing experience for his student-athletes.

On his greatest failure, Germond remembers last year in the state championships. His team was up 1-0 with 8 minutes left and had absolute control of the game. Then the referee gave Cerritos a very questionable penalty kick.

“We lost 2-1 with 3 minutes left in overtime. That was our only loss all year,” he said. “I don’t know if I’ll ever recover from that game. I felt bad for our kids. They had done everything perfect all season. I couldn’t have been any prouder.”

The coach said he wants to be remembered as one who worked really hard for his students.

“I do everything in my power to make this the best soccer program in the state,” he said. “And I try to teach our kids the important characteristics of life outside of soccer that will help them be successful in whatever they choose.