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Bridgeport Attorney Augie Sevillano Juggles
Law and Coaching Soccer Amid COVID-19

By Robert Storace

AShelton High School soccer coach for 13
years, attorney Augie Sevillano had a sports
year like no other.
Sevillano, a personal injury attorney with Cooper
Sevillano in Bridgeport, said his favorite time of year
is when August rolls around.
Sevillano, who said soccer is “in my blood,” kicks
off his coaching duties every August as the head ju-
nior varsity boy’s soccer coach for the high school.
This year, he was also assistant varsity coach for the
school.
But this year wasn’t your typical year. After all,
COVID-19 played a prominent role. and Sevillano
had to adjust. And he really adjusted.
The whole junior varsity team, including Sevil-
lano, was quarantined for 15 days in October, when
they missed four games. Sevillano said they needed
to quarantine because one of his players had tested
positive for COVID-19.
The school’s head coach for the varsity team, Isaac
Montalvo, ended up catching COVID-19 from a
family member, forcing Sevillano to take over the
reins of that team for two weeks. So there was a pe-
riod of time where Sevillano was the head coach for
two soccer teams simultaneously.
If that wasn’t enough, Sevillano, who was raised Augie Sevillano of Cooper Sevillano in Bridgeport in
playing and watching soccer in Spain and Puerto his soccer gear. He’s a soccer coach at Shelton High
Rico, was named Southern Connecticut Conference School. Courtesy photo

JV/Assistant Varsity Coach of the Year this week. into the law office at about 7 a.m., leaving the office
The season ended Nov. 6 and Sevillano’s boys, who at 1:30 p.m., and practice with one team from 2 to 4
were ages 15 and 16, went undefeated at 8-0. The p.m., and then the other team from 4 to 6 p.m. That
school’s varsity team, comprised of 16- and 17-year- was my day for weeks. There was a lot of juggling,”
olds in which Sevillano was assistant coach and coach Sevillano said.
while Montalvo had the coronavirus, was 2-4-1. The attorney/soccer coach said he spent 11 and 12
For Sevillano, the August-to-November soccer hours daily on that schedule, five days a week.
season, which in most years is uneventful, was any- Even though Sevillano tested negative for corona-
thing but in 2020. virus twice, he still had to self-quarantine since one
“It was extremely difficult to practice with and if his players had the virus. It was an experience the
coach both teams. A typical day would be coming
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