Kilimanjaro Wonders Sports Center Team
Laurent Kinabo - Executive Director, Coaching Director
- Born and raised in Moshi, Tanzania, near Mt. Kilimanjaro
- Experienced soccer player, youth coach and trainer
- Holds Tanzania Youth Football Licenses
Licensed Sports Center
- Established and licensed in August 2022
- KWSC was established to train boys and girls in soccer, other sports and life
- Launched our KWSC Senior Boys' Team in September 2022
- Began English classes to improve language skills (with sports-focus) in November 2022
- Launched a U17 Middle Boys' Team and U15 Junior Boys Team in December 2022
- Launched our first Girls' Team (ages 10-16) in January 2023
KWSC Goals
- KWSC has been established as a Soccer and Sports Center focused on training young players in a challenging and competitive environment
- We teach skills to our youth to help them reach their potential as individuals and as competitive squads
- We are guiding youth to achieve their goals in sports and life
Richard - Coach
Richard is our newest board member. As an avid soccer fan and a long-time player, Richard works with our boys and girls as a volunteer coach.
Katelyn Skinner - Social Media Director
Katelyn is a junior at Butler University majoring in Art + Design and Sports Media. As a member of Butler's track team,she focuses on short sprints. Katelyn previously with the NC Fusion social media team.
Go Youth Tanzania Team
Jeffrey Skinner - President
Jeffrey is a partner at Kilpatrick Tonwsend.where he leads the law firm's Investment Management Team. In July 2022, he launched Go Youth! Tanzania as a NC non-profit. Shortly thereafter, he and Laurent Kinablo founded Kiilimanjaro Wonders as a youth sports center focused on soccer. The organizations work together to provide underprivileged kids in Moshi, Tanzania opportunities to play competitve sports.
Scott Wollaston - Director
Scott has been involved with youth sports his whole life. He began as a youth soccer player, ultimately playing at Elon University. He later became a youth coach and academy director at Twin City Soccer. Today Scott leads NC Fusion, a youth sports club based in Greensboro and Winston-Salem that serves over 8,000 youth playing recreational and competitive soccer.
Lauren Emanuel - Treasurer, Secretary, Director
Lauren is an attorney with Kilpatrick Townsend, where she is amember of the firm's Investment Management team. Lauren played youth soccer on travel teams through high school.
Justin Baily - Director
Justin is a VP on the Strategy team at Bellomy, a full-service market research company based in Winston Salem. A lifelong soccer enthusiast, he brings a deep passion for the game to our mission. Justin has coached his daughter’s youth soccer team, officiated youth matches, and played at the collegiate level for Pfeiffer University.