Gerard Miniaci enters his first season as a member of the VMI men’s soccer coaching staff after joining the crew in May of 2017.
Miniaci comes to the Institute following three years of coaching the varsity boys’ soccer team at Broadway High School in Broadway, Virginia, just north of Harrisonburg. During this time he also served as a soccer coach for the Broadway Lynx Soccer Club as well as the Shenandoah Valley United club team. Among his many responsibilities with these teams, Miniaci planned and executed practices in addition to coaching league and tournament games.
Prior to coaching and teaching in Broadway, Miniaci served as a junior varsity assistant coach for the boys’ soccer team at Tuscarora High in Leesburg, Virginia, where he helped the squad to a 9-1-3 record during the 2014 season. From May 2012 to June 2014 Miniaci was a substitute teacher for Loudoun County Public Schools.
Miniaci was a three-year varsity men’s soccer player at Bridgewater College from 2010-13 where he earned a bachelor of science degree in health and exercise science. While at Bridgewater he did a sports marketing internship in the spring of 2013 at nearby James Madison University and also served as an assistant coach for the VBA Knights AAU basketball team.
He holds a USA F coaching license.