About Us

	Jeff Carlisle, Center Line Soccer’s senior writer, began his soccer journalism career in 2002 with QuakeMagic.com, where he covered the San Jose Earthquakes, San Jose CyberRays, as well as various college teams. Since 2005 he has written for ESPN.com, covering MLS as well as the U.S. men’s national team. His reporting has included coverage of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the 2007 Copa America in Venezuela, and the last five MLS Cups. Carlisle’s work has also appeared in The Boston Globe, The Dallas Morning News, The Kansas City Star, and the soccer monthly, “90 Minutes.”
	Jay Hipps, Center Line Soccer’s managing editor, has covered soccer in San Jose since 1997. His work has appeared on a variety of web sites, including the pioneering but sadly defunct internetsoccer.com. He’s reported from three MLS Cups, two MLS All-Star Games, the 1999 Women’s World Cup, and the 1999 Confederations Cup in Guadalajara and Mexico City. Jay is also one of the founders of both Soccer Silicon Valley and the Soccer Silicon Valley Community Foundation. In addition to his other duties, he provides the Solar-Powered Soccer Blog for CLS, named for the 5.3 kilowatt photovoltaic system that graces his home office.
	Joe Santos is a freelance soccer journalist and photographer. He’s covered the San Jose Clash/Earthquakes beat since 1997. He’s also covered the U.S. men’s national team World Cup qualifers as well as the 1999 Women’s World Cup. Joe’s work has appeared both online and in print, including the Boston Globe, Miami Herald, America Online, internetsoccer.com, Espn.com and Soccer America. Joe is heavily involved with the local youth soccer scene serving as a long-time board member, coach and referee for the Castro Valley Soccer Club as well as volunteering on various committees for the California Youth Soccer Association.

	Embele Awipi joins Center Line Soccer as a feature writer and on-camera interviewer. He began his journalism career in summer 2002 as the host of The Monterey Bay Sports Scene, a weekly radio show in Monterey. Two years later he became a freelance columnist for The Salinas Californian. In addition to covering the Quakes between 2003-2005 he has written about college football and college basketball.
	David I. Gálvez, Sr., a native of Quito, Ecuador, was the Hispanic media director for first the Clash and then the Earthquakes from 1995 to 2001. He also worked as a media liaison for the 1994 World Cup, 1998 MLS Cup, and the 1999 MLS All-Star Game. All told, he has worked as the press officer for over 100 international matches, including the CONCACAF Gold Cups in 1998, 2000, and 2002 and pre-Libertadores matches from 1999 to 2002. In addition to his work on Center Line Soccer, his writing has appeared for the last decade in La Oferta, the oldest 100% Hispanic-owned publication in San Jose. David currently lives in Tracy with his wife, Julia. They have four adult children and two granddaughters (with a third grandchild on the way).
	Tim Hanley won three MLS Cups as an assistant coach with the Earthquakes (2001 and 2003) and the Dynamo (2006) and a Supporters’ Shield with the Quakes (2005), and has returned to the Dynamo as an assistant coach for 2009. Joe Cannon and Pat Onstad were each named MLS Goalkeeper of the Year under Tim’s tutelage, Cannon in 2002 and Onstad in 2003 and 2005. Tim also served as an assistant coach at Stanford University from 2001–2005. Tim played professionally for the NASL Quakes, Edinburgh, Scotland’s Hibernian Football Club, and Servette FC in Geneva, Switzerland.
	Joe Nuxoll serves as the Director of Photography and technical advisor for Center Line Soccer. By day, Joe is a software architect, user experience designer, race driving instructor, and avid photographer. He previously held significant positions at several top-tier Silicon Valley technology companies including Apple, Sun, Navigenics, Borland, and more than his fair share of startups. Joe is well known in the software technology world as a co-host of the Java Posse podcast. Joe is also an avid soccer player and Earthquakes fan, so look for him on the sidelines of Earthquakes games shooting away and trying his hardest not to cheer too loudly. Unfortunately, the "press" are not aloud to choose sides!
	Harvey Rañola works both in front of and behind the camera as video producer for Center Line Soccer. Harvey’s introduction to the beautiful game wasn’t the most conventional. He was but a young pup when his father took him to a World Cup match in 1994 and from there he convinced his aunt to buy him a copy of FIFA 94 for his Sega Genesis (instead of a soccer ball, mind you) and the rest, as they say, is history. Nowadays you’ll rarely find his TV tuned to something other than the Fox Soccer Channel or GolTV. He is currently a broadcast journalism student at San Jose State and is a reporter for their weekly news program Update News. He was bit by the soccer reporting bug while spending his free time as a writer and an editor for American Soccer News during the 06-07 season and hasn’t looked back since.
	Pete Ratajczak has been following soccer since the NASL days. Once upon a time (twice, actually), he was elected to the board of directors of the Professional Soccer Reporters Association. He’ll be providing commentary on the soccer/football/fútbol universe, focusing on the Quakes, MLS, and the U.S. men’s national team.