Colin Rocke

{{Short description|Trinidad-American association football player}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Colin Rocke

| image =

| fullname =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|3|21}}

| birth_place = Santa Cruz, Trinidad

| height = {{height|ft=5|in=8}}

| position = Forward / Defender

| youthyears1 = 1989–1993

| youthclubs1 = West Virginia Wesleyan

| years1 = 1990–1991

| clubs1 = El Paso Patriots

| caps1 =

| goals1 =

| years2 = 1993

| clubs2 = Dallas Sidekicks (indoor)

| caps2 = 13

| goals2 = 5

| years3 = 1994–1995

| clubs3 = Las Vegas Dustdevils (indoor)

| caps3 = 30

| goals3 = 17

| years4 = 1995–1996

| clubs4 = Dallas Lightning (indoor)

| caps4 = ?

| goals4 = 11

| years5 = 1997–1998

| clubs5 = New Orleans Storm

| caps5 = 51

| goals5 = 0

| years6 = 1999

| clubs6 = Charleston Battery

| caps6 = 10

| goals6 = 0

| years7 = 2003

| clubs7 = New Orleans Shell Shockers

| caps7 = 12

| goals7 = 0

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}}

Colin Rocke is a retired Trinidad-American association football forward who played professionally in the Continental Indoor Soccer League and USISL A-League.

Player

Rocke attended West Virginia Wesleyan College where he played on the men’s soccer team from 1989 to 1993. In 1989 and 1990, West Virginia Wesleyan won the NAIA national men's soccer championship. Rocke was a three-time NAIA All American soccer player (1989, 1990 and 1992) as well as a conference champion track runner.{{Cite web |url=http://www.bobcatsoccer.com/wvwcsoccer/archives/allamericans.htm |title=West Virginia Wesleyan All Americans |access-date=2013-05-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304024945/http://www.bobcatsoccer.com/wvwcsoccer/archives/allamericans.htm |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }} He graduated in 1993. In 2012, West Virginia Wesleyan inducted Rocke into its Athletic Hall of Fame.{{Cite web |url=http://wvawesleyan.prestosports.com/athletics/Hall_of_Fame_INFO/Rocke |title=West Virginia Wesleyan: Colin Rocke |access-date=2013-05-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000046/http://wvawesleyan.prestosports.com/athletics/Hall_of_Fame_INFO/Rocke |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }} In 1990 and 1991, Rocke played as an amateur for the El Paso Patriots of the USISL during the summer. In 1993, Rocke turned professional with the Dallas Sidekicks of the Continental Indoor Soccer League. The Sidekicks had selected Rocke in the third round (17th overall) of the 1993 CISL Amateur Draft. That season the Sidekicks won the CISL championship. In 1994, the Las Vegas Dustdevils selected Rocke in that year’s Expansion Draft. He spent two seasons in Las Vegas. Rocke won a second CISL championship in 1994 when the Dustdevils defeated the Sidekicks in three games. In the fall of 1995, Rocke joined the Dallas Lightning for the 1995-1996 USISL indoor season. He was the tenth leading scorer, but was injured and lost the 1996 season.{{Cite web |url=http://homepages.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1996.html#USISL |title=The Year in American Soccer – 1996 |access-date=2013-05-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815063619/http://homepages.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1996.html#USISL |archive-date=2017-08-15 |url-status=dead }} In April 1997, Rocke returned to playing as he moved outdoors with the New Orleans Riverboat Gamblers of the USISL A-League.[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/05/sports/transactions-468630.html April 5, 1997 Transactions] In 1998, the Gamblers were renamed the New Orleans Storm. On January 28, 1999, Rocke signed with the Charleston Battery, but by this time his playing career was winding down as he turned more towards coaching. Rocke returned to Louisiana where he had become the head coach of the Metairie Park Country Day School High School. In 2003, Rocke came out of retirement to briefly play for the New Orleans Shell Shockers of the USL Premier Development League.

Coach

In 1998, Rocke became the head coach of the Metairie Park Country Day High School, a position he held until 2007. In 2000, he led his team to the Louisiana High School State championship. In 2002, they finished runner-up in the final. He was the 2000 Louisiana Division II Girls Coach of the Year.[http://laprepsoccer.proboards.com/post/250339# 1999-2000 LHSSCA Girls All State Teams]