Joe Martinez joined Groton School in 2020 after teaching and coaching at Avon Old Farms for seven years. During his time at Avon, the soccer program won the Hay-Sanderson Cup (awarded to the top team in Western New England), won the Cardinal Classic, qualified for the New England tournament twice, and reached #2 in the nation in Top Drawer Soccer’s prep school rankings. Many of Avon’s players went on to play collegiate and professional soccer. 

 

Joe graduated from Amherst College in 2008 with a double major in economics and English. He was also a four-year member of the soccer program. After graduating, he worked in finance until 2012, when he received a Project Coach Fellowship to pursue a master of arts in teaching at Smith College. Concurrently, he worked for Project Coach, a nonprofit organization founded by two Smith professors. In that role, Joe designed and ran soccer programming for at-risk youth in Springfield, Massachusetts.

 

Joe teaches English, coaches soccer, and runs an Upper School dorm.