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Anthony Russomanno

Anthony has been teaching and counseling over 30 years. He has done nearly everything in the test prep, education and admissions space – coordinator, teacher, tutor, consultant, counselor, presenter sales/marketing tactician, operator, partnership/business development manager, customer service rep and content developer. Most recently, he was the Capistrano Unified School District College and Career Coordinator for Futureology (sure a mouthful). He worked tirelessly leading the charge of making his nearly 15,000 high school students college and career ready. He was responsible for leading the programs such as College Fair, Roadmap to College Nights, Mock Testing, Webinar Series, Application Support Workshops, SAT-ACT Prep Rally, Parent Bootcamps, Athletic Recruiting Bootcamps, and Mock Case Study as well as guiding his counselors. He personally delivered over 200 expert presentations for his high schools on a variety of topics and held one on one appointments for hundreds of students and families per year. Prior to that he was the National Director for a leading prep company in which he created alliances with organizations that are also committed to providing valuable educational benefits to promote member loyalty and satisfaction.

About Me

Education:
College Counseling Certification, UC San Diego

M.B.A., Specialization in Sales & Marketing, Keller Graduate School of Management

M.A., Clinical Psychology & Family Counseling, Pepperdine University

B.A. in Psychology, University of California, Irvine

Athletic Background
Anthony has been coaching or training athletes for over 25 years at the high school, club, college and youth sports levels. Anthony was a 3-sport athlete at Marlboro HS in New Jersey, earning All-County and All-Conference in soccer, basketball, and baseball, plus All-State in soccer. At UC Irvine, a D-I university, he earned soccer team captain and MVP honors twice, All-Conference and Big West Scholar Athlete of the Year. He also played baseball for a brief time, but eventually focused on soccer because of his full-ride scholarship.

Anthony began helping students and parents with the recruiting process in 1994, when he was coaching competitively (Fountain Valley HS, Cypress HS + Wolfpack Club). He quickly realized that most of his players were struggling to attract attention from college coaches and helped his athletes and families navigate the process to avoid the most common pitfalls. Ever since, he has been a "go-to" guide for this process.

Specialty Areas:
Essay brainstorm, development and editing
Athletic recruitment
Application review
Finding personal narratives