Letitita Jo “Tish” Schrock (Class of 2020)

Letita Jo Schrock came to Richmond from Clifton Forge to attend VCU in Business Administration and Management, a degree she obtained in 1986, which she would put to good use in her career with FedEx Express as Operations Manager and Director of Operations at the Richmond Kickers. Although born in the Blue Ridge she was raised in Zweibrucken, Germany, where she got her first exposure to football, a passion which would continue in her return to America and in college where she played during the early days of women’s soccer in America.

Tish was an early member of the Chesterfield Women's Soccer Association (CWSA), which is where I met her on the field for the first time while refereeing their matches over at A.M. Davis Elementary School, the expansion fields of Pocoshock Valley Youth Soccer League (PVYSL). She was a tough midfielder, but a very amiable person off the pitch, which she would use throughout her mentorship of young kids developing their soccer skills, first as a coach at the scholastic level while working at Crenshaw Elementary School. This was at a time when RISOA was in desperate need of high school soccer referees, especially women, and Tish agreed to give it a try for the 1999 Spring season. This is when Tish gained the whistle perspective for the first time and why she has been such a friend to referees. Tish was instrumental in the growth of the Richmond Kickers Youth Soccer program as a part of the early team that built out the youth programming for the Richmond Kickers Professional team in 2001. Though we lost her to the Kickers, she remains an ardent supporter of CVSRA. Mostly referees see Tish on the Ukrop-Stratton Park fields managing the Kickers Youth League and Tournaments. She is a former referee in the CVSRA Scholastic division and has the right stuff when it comes to making youth soccer fun, safe and fair in the Richmond area for the players and the referees.