MONTEGO BAY, St James — After winning every title on offer in his coaching career that is just under 25 years old, adding the FLOW Super Cup title would be a personal milestone for Cornwall College’s Dr Dean Weatherly.

In addition to winning at the schoolboy level, Dr Weatherly, a dental surgeon, led Violet Kickers to the second of their two National Premier League titles in the mid-1990s and played a part in Montego Bay United’s first Red Stripe Premier League title two seasons ago. He had also taken Violet Kickers, then in the now defunct A-League, to the final of the JFF Federation Cup, losing 1-2 to Tivoli Gardens in 1999.

Today, Cornwall College will create history when they take the field at Sabina Park to face Manning Cup team Wolmer’s Boys’ in the final of the cash-rich national knockout tournament, the first team outside of the Corporate Area to do so, and he says this has been a dream for him on a personal level.

“Yes, it is a dream for me,” he told the Jamaica Observer earlier this week while overseeing training at Cornwall. It’s a chance to put another feather in my cap to add the FLOW Cup to the others,” said Dr Weatherly, who has won eight titles at Cornwall College.

He oversaw the school winning three daCosta Cup titles in 1995, 2000 and 2001; the Olivier Shield in 2001; and four of the school’s record seven Ben Francis KO titles in 1995, 2000, 2001 and 2003. He said it would be a fitting way to celebrate a big milestone at the Montego Bay institution.

“It’s also the 120th anniversary of the school and football success always seems have an add-on effect on the entire school. We can see the spirit of the school is lifted and the grades go up and we seem to succeed in most other things,” Dr Weatherly added.

Making it to the final of the FLOW Super Cup, he said, was “very important in terms that Cornwall College, being a traditional powerhouse, seems we are back on the football radar now”.

Dr Weatherly has some making up to do after the team was knocked out in the first round by eventual champions Jamaica College in the first staging in 2014. “I was the coach at the inception of the FLOW Cup and we were eliminated in the first round, and it’s been a long wait to be back and it’s a good feeling to be here, it’s like karma in terms of being the first rural (team) to be in the final and the first rural to have a chance to hold the coveted trophy.”

Cornwall College last contested a senior high school final in 2003 when they won the Ben Francis KO, but have won a number of under-14 and under-16 titles in the last three years. Dr Weatherly said: “It has been a long, arduous road and we have seen a lot of bonding, a lot of mixing and matching, cutting and pasting, but it seem the fruits are coming forth now.”

For the past two years, a lot had been expected form the Cornwall College teams after a 7-0 demolition of Wolmer’s in the ISSA National Under-16 final, but each year they have come up short. However, Dr Weatherly said his team is more mature this year.

This team, he said, “is a lot more matured and disciplined. Discipline first and then maturity, actually. The last two years, because of their youthful vigour, they may have forgotten discipline but this year we see where they are a more disciplined bunch and it is paying off.

“The programme is much more structured as well. With the work of old boys, staff, we have a better foundation to build on and we are reaping the success.”