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John Shimer joined the Boston College Eagles after a successful 6-year stint just down the road at Pine Manor College where he founded the Division III men's program in 2014 and led the Gators to two ACAA conference championships, an overall 56-33-9 record, and over 30 All-Conference selections.
Previously Shimer worked at both Endicott College where he brought in a class that featured two CCC Defensive Players of the Year and one All-American. That class would help lead Endicott to 4 straight regular season conference championships. Prior to Endicott, Shimer worked at his alma mater Ohio Wesleyan for a season where the Battling Bishops won the regular season NCAC conference championship and ultimately advanced to the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Ryan Sandell is in his first year on the men's soccer staff at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Penn, Ryan was the first assistant at Muhlenberg College in 2020, and was the goalkeeper coach at Drexel University in 2018. In 2019, Ryan played overseas in Sweden, and Northern Ireland. As a college player at Elizabethtown College, Ryan was a First Team All-Conference Selection, and NSCAA Mid-Atlantic All-Region Second Team selection, as well as helping Etown to a third conference final in four years, and an NCAA tournament appearance and first round win.
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Mike Casper joined the coaching staff in the spring of 2019. Casper came to the Hilltop from Northwestern University where he was an assistant coach for one season. Prior to NU, he was at the University of Notre Dame for three years and served as the head coach at Saint Francis University (Pa.) for eight seasons.
Last year, the Wildcats went 6-9-5 overall before falling to top-seeded Indiana in overtime in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals.
In three seasons as an assistant at Notre Dame, Casper helped the Fighting Irish reach the NCAA Tournament every year as the team managed a combined record of 34-19-10. Casper also coached five Notre Dame players who went on to be drafted to the MLS.
Prior to his arrival at Notre Dame, Casper was the head coach at Saint Francis where he led the Red Flash to the Northeast Conference (NEC) regular-season title in 2014 with a school record 13-6-1 mark. For his efforts, he was named the league's coach of the year.
Over his eight seasons as head coach, Casper led Saint Francis to a 71-61-21 record, including a 36-26-9 mark in NEC play. The 71 total victories and the 36 league wins are the most in school history. The Red Flash was the NEC finalist four times with Casper at the helm.
Casper coached 24 All-NEC players, 15 National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) all-region performers and an NSCAA All-American during his time as head coach at Saint Francis. Eight of his players went on to the professional ranks.
In addition to the success on the field, the Red Flash produced three Academic All-Americans and 10 Academic All-District players during his tenure. The program also received the NSCAA Team Academic Award four times (2011-14).
Overall Casper was with the Red Flash for the last 12 seasons. Prior to taking over the head coaching position, he spent four seasons as an assistant coach in charge of the team's goalkeepers.
A four-year member of the UMBC men's soccer team, Casper helped lead the Retrievers to a NEC Championship in 1999. During Casper's four-year career at UMBC, the Retrievers posted a record of 54-19-11 going 30-7-3 in NEC play.
Following his collegiate career, Casper served as head junior varsity and assistant varsity coach at Timothy Christian High School (N.J.) for two seasons (2001-02). In 2000, Casper served as head coach of the Central Jersey Riptide in the Professional Development League.
He holds an A License from the United States Soccer Federation and an advanced regional diploma from the NSCAA.
Casper received his master's degree in education leadership from Saint Francis in 2005 and is a 2000 graduate of UMBC with a bachelor's degree in psychology. He and his wife Kerri have a son, Jacob.
Third year Assistant Coach/Goalkeeper Coach at West Virginia University
Brenner is in his sixth season with the Wake Forest men's soccer program in 2016 after being hired onto the staff prior to the 2011 season.
In 2015, Brenner helped guide Wake Forest to one of the best seasons in program history to date as the Deacs went 17-3-2, earned the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament and made a run to the Elite Eight. After the season, Brenner was named the NSCAA's Glenn "Mooch" Myernick National Assistant Coach of the Year and the organization's South Region Assistant Coach of the Year.
At Wake Forest, Brenner works primarily with the team's defensive unit and goalkeepers while also serving as the program's recruiting coordinator. In 2015, Wake Forest allowed just 13 goals on the campaign, which tied for the lowest goals against total in Wake Forest history. Brenner also helped Alec Ferrell to his best season as a Demon Deacon thus far, as Ferrell finished with eight shutouts and a 0.66 goals against average. Most of the season, Ferrell flirted with Brian Edwards' 2007 record of a 0.50 goals against average, but ultimately came up a bit short. Overall in 2015, Wake Forest posted a 0.58 GAA, which came just 0.06 off the record of 0.52, set in 2007.
Before joining the Demon Deacons, Brenner served as an assistant coach at Connecticut for four years. During his time with the Huskies, the program posted at 54-14-17 record. While at UConn, Brenner aided the development of Josh Ford, an All-American and All-BIG EAST goalkeeper for the Huskies. Ford ultimately recorded 50 shutouts and was selected No. 11 overall in the 2011 MLS SuperDraft by Seattle Sounders FC.
While at UConn, Brenner also worked with student-athletes on and off the field, as well as assisting in ticket sales with local youth clubs, team travel and game promotions. He also helped with goalkeeper training after a successful Division I collegiate career at South Florida.
All in all, Brenner's teams in nine seasons as an assistant coach at Wake Forest and Connecticut have never missed the NCAA Tournament. His best runs in the tournament came in Elite Eight runs in 2007 and 2015 and Sweet 16 appearances in 2008 and 2013.
Brenner graduated from South Florida in 2006 and went on trial with the Chicago Fire in the spring of 2007. At USF, he was a four-year starter and a three-time captain for the Bulls. Brenner was chosen as an All-Conference USA goalkeeper in 2004 and led USF to the BIG EAST regular season championship title in 2005 in the Bulls' first year in the conference.
Brenner posted a career-best 0.80 GAA in 2006 with 74 saves while ranking NO. 24 in the nation in save percentage (.822). In 2005, he started and played in a career-best 20 games and recorded a 1.36 GAA while notching a 13-6-1 record.
During the 2004 season, Brenner was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District Third Team and earned a spot on the All-Conference USA Second Team.
A native of High Point, North Carolina, Brenner played club for the PSA Stars before playing at South Florida. He graduated in 2006 with a degree in Sociology.
Kulas returns for his sixth season as an assistant coach for the University of Hartfords mens soccer team in 2016. Kulas, who joined the Hawks in 2011, has worked alongside head coach Tom Poitras for the last 10 years, as he previously served as his top assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He assists with all aspects of the program with an emphasis on recruiting.
Since landing at Hartford with Poitras in 2011, Kulas has piloted the Hawks to 44 wins, the most in a five-year stretch since 1999-2003. The Hawks have made a trio of America East Championship appearances during that stretch, including trips to the conferences title match in 2011, 2013 and 2014.
Kulas contributions to player development both on and off the field have been substantial. He has guided 21 student-athletes to All-Conference distinction and nine to NSCAA regional awards. In the classroom, Hawks mens soccer student-athletes have combined for the highest grade point average among its America East peers in three of the last four years. In addition, 15 America East All-Academic Team laurels have been awarded to Hartford mens soccer players, while Anthony LoBello, a 2016 graduate, became the Hawks first CoSIDA Academic All-District honoree since 2009.
While at Green Bay, Kulas helped pilot the team to four-straight Horizon League tournament appearances, including a historic season in 2009 that saw the program earn its first-ever tournament championship coupled with an NCAA Division I Tournament appearance, the first in 26 years. In 2007, his impact aided the Phoenix in returning to the Horizon League championship game as the former college defender helped Green Bay set a team record with 12 shutouts in a single season.
Kulas got his collegiate coaching career started with a stint at Assumption College in 2004. Serving as an assistant womens soccer coach with the Greyhounds, he helped direct the team to its first-ever berth in the NCAA Division II New England Regional Tournament that season. Following that appointment, Kulas served one season as an assistant to the Hawks womens soccer team under current head coach John Natale before returning to Worcester, Mass., when he was named head coach of Assumptions mens soccer program.
Kulas is a 2002 graduate of Southern New Hampshire, where he was a standout defender for the mens soccer team under Poitras watch. He helped the team post a 38-12-8 record as a three-year starter and led the Penmen to a pair of NCAA regional appearances and a Northeast-10 title (2000). Kulas went on to gain professional playing experience in 2002 as a member of the New Hampshire Phantoms, a team that placed fourth in the Northern Division.
Kulas hiring also served as a homecoming for the Nutmeg State native, as he was an assistant coach for the Hartford womens soccer team in 2005. He holds a National B License and has also served as a staff coach to the FC Green Bay Boys U15 youth soccer club team as well as Wisconsins Olympic Development Program.
Rob Esposito currently assists Matt Viggiano in coaching the Marist Red Foxes, and also holds the title Technical Director at Quickstrike FC. As a student-athlete, Esposito played at Herkimer Community College from 2004-2006, where the team finished as national runners-up in 2004 and won a National Championship in 2005. Following his time at Herkimer, Esposito enrolled at SUNY Fredonia, playing from 2006-2008, when the team finished as SUNYAC runners-up in 2006 and conference champions in 2007. During his time at Fredonia, Esposito was named NSCAA All-Region twice and after graduation, played for the Westchester Flames of the PDL.
Esposito began coaching in 2011 at Dutchess Community College, before he was hired as an assistant at Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh from 2012-17, winning a conference championship during the 2013 season. Esposito holds a FAW C License.
Julian Richens enters his 10th season as the head coach of the mens soccer program at Saint Peter's in 2020-21.
Richens' ninth year in Jersey City was hands down his most successful after guiding the Peacocks to their winningest season in a decade and an outright Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) regular season title. Saint Peter's finished the year with a 13-6-0 overall record as well as a program-best 9-1-0 mark in league play. Along the way, Richens and his staff propelled the squad to an appearance in the 2019 MAAC Championship Finals -- their first such appearance since their last title in 2010 -- after a program-record 10-game winning/unbeaten streak. Despite finishing as the league tournament runners-up, the Peacocks still earned their first regular season crown since 2010 and posted the third-highest win total in single-season school history.
For his efforts behind the bench, Richens earned his first MAAC Coach of the Year award since taking command in 2011 by unanimous selection after the team was selected seventh in the preseason coaches' poll. Richens is the fourth Peacock coach in the program's history to earn the honor, following Gerry McKeown (1994), Cesar Markovic (2003), and Guy Abrahamson (2010). But he was not alone in earning major hardware, as Dominic Laws '21 was named the MAAC Offensive Player of the Year. The combination of Richens and Laws marked only the second time in program history in which two Peacocks both received MAAC men's soccer major awards, with the other pair being Assaf Sheleg and Guy Abrahamson, who were the Defensive Player of the Year and Coach of the Year, respectively, in 2010.
Additionally, the Peacocks also led the league with their seven all-conference honorees in 2019, a figure that is tied for the most in a single season in program history (2006). Both Laws and classmate Jordan Jowers '21 also gathered additional postseason hardware as all-region selections by the ECAC and United Soccer Coaches' Association. Saint Peter's also boasted a league-leading 15 MAAC All-Academic Team honorees, as well.
In 2018, Richens helped Saint Peter's post a 5-4-1 MAAC record and 8-9-2 overall record, improving on both MAAC and overall records from the 2017 campaign. Richens' team finished the regular season in sixth place, qualifying for the MAAC playoffs for the first time under his leadership and last time since 2010. During the season, the team had a three-game shutout stretch for the first time since 2010 and scored four goals in consecutive games for the first time since 2007. Richens coached three All-MAAC players in sophomores Jordan Jowers (1st Team) and Dominic Laws (2nd Team), and freshman Jason Dubrovich (Rookie Team), making them the first Peacock trio since 2010 to earn all-league honors in the same season. Additionally, Richens had three separate players win MAAC weekly awards during the season, the teams most weekly honors since 2013.
Over the past two seasons, Richens sports a 21-15-2 overall mark (.553) and a 14-5-1 MAAC tally (.700); the combined 14 conference wins over the last two seasons are the most through any two year period in program history. He also headed the NJCU women's soccer program for one season in 2003-04.
In 2017 under Richens, the Peacocks earned two wins and a tie over playoff qualifying teams (Iona, Hartwick [Sun Belt Conference], and tied with Bucknell [Patriot League]) and earned a tie against Big East foe Seton Hall. The teams 4-0 blowout win over Iona at home was the programs largest margin of victory since the 2014 season. Richens also had rookie-sensation forward Jordan Jowers earn All-MAAC Second team and All-Rookie team honors.
The team led the MAAC in saves and saves per game in 2016 and Richens led Saint Peter's to a team-best seven wins with him at the helm in 2015, while the Peacocks also advanced to the MAAC Tournament that year. Richens has coached two All-MAAC first-team selection, six All-MAAC second-team honorees and two All-Rookie team selections in his tenure at Saint Peter's.
He came to Saint Peters after serving as a mens assistant coach at Rider for four seasons.
Since coming to the United States in 1999, Richens has been a Regional Manager for Noga ProExcel, a national coaching company. He also directed Champions World Camps with AC Milan and served as head coach for New Jersey City Universitys womens team during the 2003 season.
Richens owns and operates Players Edge Soccer, a coaching education company based in Central NJ. A noted youth coach with boys and girls teams and in the last four years his teams have won a National Championship, three State Cups and appeared in seven State Finals. Three of his teams have been national ranked top 15 teams.
Richens earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Sports Science in 1998 from Brunel University in England. He is licensed by the USSF, NSCAA and UEFA.
Coaching Background:
- Saint Peter's University
1st Assistant Coach | NCAA D1 | July 2019 - Present
- East Brunswick Soccer Club Director of Coaching | June 2020 - Present
- TSF Academy
05 & 07 Head Coach | June 2019 - December 2019
-Atlantic City FC
Assistant Coach | NPSL | January 2019 - August 2019
-The College of New Jersey
Assistant Coach | NCAA D3 | July 2018 - May 2019
- Campioni Tab Ramos Soccer
Head Coach & Trainer | July 2016 - June 2019
Coaching Licenses:
FA Wales C License
US Soccer C License
Playing Background:
- Woden Weston Football Club | National Premier League | Canberra, Australia | 2017
- Clarkstown Eagles SC | National Premier Soccer League | Ramapo, NJ | 2017
- Fort Lauderdale Strikers | National Premier Soccer League | Fort Lauderdale, FL | 2016
- Harrisburg Heat | Major Arena Soccer League | Harrisburg, PA | 2015
- Montclair State University | NCAA D3 | Montclair, NJ | 2013-2014
- Brookdale Community College | NJCAA D3 | Lincroft, NJ | 2012
- West Virginia University | NCAA D1 | Morgantown, WV | 2011-2012
Jim Clementi enters his sixth season as an assistant coach for Siena Men's Soccer in 2024.
Upon joining the Saints in 2019, Clementi brought five years of collegiate coaching experience with him to Loudonville, the latter two of which he served as head coach of Division III Wells College.
"I am extremely happy and excited to welcome Jim to my staff, said then-head coach Cesar Markovic upon Clementi's hiring. Jim is a coach that has worked his way up the ranks all the way to a head coaching position at Wells College. Jim understands the serious work that is involved with building a contender. I think our team and staff will benefit from this injection of energy, hard work, and new ideas into our program."
Clementi matriculates to Siena following a two-year stint as the head coach of the Division III Wells College Express in Aurora, New York. He developed four North Eastern Athletic Conference selections over his two seasons at the helm.
No stranger to the Capital Region, Clementi previously served as an assistant coach for two seasons at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in nearby Troy. He helped guide RPI to the Second Round of the 2015 Division III NCAA Tournament, and was instrumental in helping to land a pair of top recruiting classes.
Clementi first entered the collegiate coaching ranks as an assistant at his alma mater, Ramapo College of New Jersey, in 2014. He previously coached numerous club squads as well as serving as a head coach for three seasons at Hawthorne High School in Hawthorne, New Jersey. Clementi spent his final two seasons as the boys varsity soccer head coach, and was named the 2013 North Jersey Interscholastic Conference Colonial Division Coach of the Year after leading his team to a league championship and program record 16 wins.
A 2011 graduate of Ramapo with his B.S. in Mathematics, Clementi received his M.A. in Coaching and Athletic Administration from Concordia University Irvine in 2015. He was a three-time team captain and both a two-time New Jersey Athletic Conference All-Conference (2009, 2010) and All-Academic Team (2008-09) selection while starring at back for Ramapo. Over his four varsity seasons, Clementi started all 61 games in which he appeared in and helped guide the Roadrunners to 40 wins.
A native of Medford Lakes, New Jersey, Clementi starred at Shawnee High School which he led to a perfect 27-0-0 record and a Group 3 State Championship his senior year in 2006, setting the record for most victories in New Jersey history.
Stefan played 4 years of college soccer at Dartmouth before transitioning to the USL. In the USL he played for two years with the Wilmington Hammerheads and most recently with the Rochester Rhinos. He has made over 50 appearances in the USL, earning team of the week honors twice.
Throughout Stefan's playing career he has also worked with the Wilmington Hammerheads youth teams as well as their Sports Science program. Most recently he spent a year as an assistant coach with the University of Rochester helping them to an elite 8 appearance. Along the way the staff was also voted UAA coaching staff of the year.
Stefan is beginning his sixth season with Northeastern University after helping them to a second place finish in the CAA and a top for RPI finish in 2021
Assistant mens soccer coach at Albright College 2012-2014
Assistant womens soccer coach at Albright College 2012-2016
Head mens soccer coach at Albright College 2015-2019
Assistant coach at Reading United PDL 2018-2019
Director of soccer operations at Lehigh University Feb. 2019-June 2019
Assistant Coach at Lehigh June 2019-present
Head Coach Club CTSA Fusion 2015-present
Head Coach Club LVU 04 Blue 2019-present
Marco enters his 15th season as the head soccer coach at Binghamton University in 2015. Under his guidance, the Bearcats have been transformed from a team that won just two games the year before his arrival into an established program that has become a fixture on the conference, regional and national scene.
The 2015 campaign marked a resurgence for the Binghamton men's soccer program. It won 10 games, marking its highest total since 2008. This includes a 1-0 win over then No. 28 Ohio State as well as a pair of road wins in the America East Tournament. The Bearcats ended the season by returning to the conference championship game for the first time in seven years. All of this was done with one of the youngest squads in the nation, which was predicted to finish seventh in the conference in the preseason poll. In the classroom, the Bearcats posted the highest GPA (3.27) among any men's soccer program in the America East Conference during the 2015-16 academic year.
Marco has led Binghamton to two America East Conference titles (2003 and 2006), two America East regular season titles (2006 and 2007) and seven appearances in the conference title game. From 2003-08, Binghamton advanced to a conference-record six straight championship games.
As the Bearcats have made their place among the elite squads in the conference, they have also gained attention in the national polls. In four seasons since Marco became the head coach, Binghamton has either received votes or been ranked in both the NSCAA/adidas and College Soccer News weekly polls (2003, 2004, 2005 & 2007). Furthermore, the Bearcats have been ranked among the top 10 teams in the Northeast Region five times since 2003.
Under Marcos guidance, the Bearcats have excelled just as much in the classroom as they have on the playing field. The 2007 team posted the highest combined GPA in the nation (3.37) out of over 200 programs. The Binghamton 2005 squad had the third-highest combined GPA among all NCAA Division I mens soccer programs (3.30), the 2006 team was ranked fourth (3.26) and the 2008 squad tied for fifth (3.30). Individually, Binghamton has had one COSIDA Academic All-American, one COSIDA Academic All-District selection and nine NSCAA Scholar All-Americans since Marco became the head coach.
In 2007, Binghamton moved into the 2,534-seat Bearcats Sports Complex and have since ranked among the top Division I programs in the nation in home attendance three times. The Bearcats were No. 21 in the nation during the 2007 campaign and No. 20 in 2008 and No. 23 in 2009.
Marco led the Bearcats to a 14-6-0 record as well as its second straight America East regular season title during the 2007 campaign. In the process, the Bearcats became the first regular-season repeat champion in 13 years. Binghamtons 14 wins marked its highest total since 1993. Marco was named the America East Coach of the Year for the first time in his career.
The previous year, Marco guided the Bearcats to their first-ever America East Conference regular season title as well as to their second tournament title in four years. Binghamton earned its second trip to the NCAA Division I Tournament and faced No. 17 Harvard in the first round.
In 2003, Marco led the squad to its first-ever America East Championship after the squad was picked to finish eighth in the preseason poll. Binghamton stunned No. 15 Fairleigh Dickinson 1-0 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament before losing 1-0 in overtime at No. 7 St. Louis in the second round. The Bearcats were the first team receiving votes in the NSCAA/adidas season-ending Top 25 poll and Marco was named the New York State Region Coach of the Year
Prior to his arrival at Binghamton, Marco was the head coach at West Virginia from 1996-2001. During his tenure, he guided the Mountaineers to a record of 47-62-4. His best season was in 1999, when West Virginia went 13-5-1 and received the third seed in the Big East Championship tournament. That year, Marco was named the Big East Coach of the Year. In addition, Marcos 1998 team also advanced to the conference tournament, posting an 11-8-1 mark.
Before taking over the head coaching reigns in 1997, Marco served as the Mountaineers assistant coach from 1992-95, helping lead the program to an Atlantic 10 conference championship and NCAA tournament berth in 1992.
A former Division I player for West Virginia, Marco led the program to one of its finest seasons in school history in 1990. His 12 points steered the team to a 12-5-1 recordits best mark in 23 years.
In 1991, Marco graduated cum laude from West Virginia with a bachelors degree in physical education. He is teacher certified in grades K-12. Marco also received his masters degree from West Virgnia University in 1994 in physical education/athletic coaching.
Besides holding a National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Advanced National Diploma and a United States Soccer Federation (USSF) B License, Marco has been a member of the NSCAA national staff for 20 years. He was promoted to the NSCAA Senior Staff in 2005. In that capacity, Marco has taught various levels of the NSCAA academy curriculum courses, and has published numerous articles. From 1999-2001, he served as vice president of the Big East Soccer Coaches for three years.
Marco and his wife, Sheryl, have two children. They reside in Endicott.
BINGHAMTON MENS SOCCER UNDER PAUL MARCO
- 2003 and 2006 America East Champions
- 2006 and 2007 America East Regular Season Champions
- 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2015 America East Runner-Up
- 2003 NCAA Tournament (Second Round)
- 2006 NCAA Tournament (First Round)
- One College Soccer News All-American
- 14 NSCAA All-Region Selections
- Four America East Defensive Players of Year
- Two America East Strikers of the Year
- Three America East Goalkeepers of the Year
- One America East Rookie of the Year
- Nine NSCAA Scholar All-Americans
- 18 America East All-Academic Selections
- Posted the top GPA among Division I mens soccer programs during the 2007-08 academic year
- Binghamton ranked among the top 25 mens soccer programs in terms of average home attendance during the 2007, 2008 and 2009 seasons
THE MARCO FILE
2002-Present: Head Coach, Binghamton University
1996-2001: Head Coach, West Virginia University
1992-95: Assistant Coach, West Virginia University
Paul Marco
Head Men's Soccer Coach
Paul Marco enters his 15th season as the head soccer coach at Binghamton University in 2015. Under his guidance, the Bearcats have been transformed from a team that won just two games the year before his arrival into an established program that has become a fixture on the conference, regional and national scene.
The 2015 campaign marked a resurgence for the Binghamton men's soccer program. It won 10 games, marking its highest total since 2008. This includes a 1-0 win over then No. 28 Ohio State as well as a pair of road wins in the America East Tournament. The Bearcats ended the season by returning to the conference championship game for the first time in seven years. All of this was done with one of the youngest squads in the nation, which was predicted to finish seventh in the conference in the preseason poll. In the classroom, the Bearcats posted the highest GPA (3.27) among any men's soccer program in the America East Conference during the 2015-16 academic year.
Marco has led Binghamton to two America East Conference titles (2003 and 2006), two America East regular season titles (2006 and 2007) and seven appearances in the conference title game. From 2003-08, Binghamton advanced to a conference-record six straight championship games.
As the Bearcats have made their place among the elite squads in the conference, they have also gained attention in the national polls. In four seasons since Marco became the head coach, Binghamton has either received votes or been ranked in both the NSCAA/adidas and College Soccer News weekly polls (2003, 2004, 2005 & 2007). Furthermore, the Bearcats have been ranked among the top 10 teams in the Northeast Region five times since 2003.
Under Marcos guidance, the Bearcats have excelled just as much in the classroom as they have on the playing field. The 2007 team posted the highest combined GPA in the nation (3.37) out of over 200 programs. The Binghamton 2005 squad had the third-highest combined GPA among all NCAA Division I mens soccer programs (3.30), the 2006 team was ranked fourth (3.26) and the 2008 squad tied for fifth (3.30). Individually, Binghamton has had one COSIDA Academic All-American, one COSIDA Academic All-District selection and nine NSCAA Scholar All-Americans since Marco became the head coach.
In 2007, Binghamton moved into the 2,534-seat Bearcats Sports Complex and have since ranked among the top Division I programs in the nation in home attendance three times. The Bearcats were No. 21 in the nation during the 2007 campaign and No. 20 in 2008 and No. 23 in 2009.
Marco led the Bearcats to a 14-6-0 record as well as its second straight America East regular season title during the 2007 campaign. In the process, the Bearcats became the first regular-season repeat champion in 13 years. Binghamtons 14 wins marked its highest total since 1993. Marco was named the America East Coach of the Year for the first time in his career.
The previous year, Marco guided the Bearcats to their first-ever America East Conference regular season title as well as to their second tournament title in four years. Binghamton earned its second trip to the NCAA Division I Tournament and faced No. 17 Harvard in the first round.
In 2003, Marco led the squad to its first-ever America East Championship after the squad was picked to finish eighth in the preseason poll. Binghamton stunned No. 15 Fairleigh Dickinson 1-0 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament before losing 1-0 in overtime at No. 7 St. Louis in the second round. The Bearcats were the first team receiving votes in the NSCAA/adidas season-ending Top 25 poll and Marco was named the New York State Region Coach of the Year
Prior to his arrival at Binghamton, Marco was the head coach at West Virginia from 1996-2001. During his tenure, he guided the Mountaineers to a record of 47-62-4. His best season was in 1999, when West Virginia went 13-5-1 and received the third seed in the Big East Championship tournament. That year, Marco was named the Big East Coach of the Year. In addition, Marcos 1998 team also advanced to the conference tournament, posting an 11-8-1 mark.
Before taking over the head coaching reigns in 1997, Marco served as the Mountaineers assistant coach from 1992-95, helping lead the program to an Atlantic 10 conference championship and NCAA tournament berth in 1992.
A former Division I player for West Virginia, Marco led the program to one of its finest seasons in school history in 1990. His 12 points steered the team to a 12-5-1 recordits best mark in 23 years.
In 1991, Marco graduated cum laude from West Virginia with a bachelors degree in physical education. He is teacher certified in grades K-12. Marco also received his masters degree from West Virgnia University in 1994 in physical education/athletic coaching.
Besides holding a National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Advanced National Diploma and a United States Soccer Federation (USSF) B License, Marco has been a member of the NSCAA national staff for 20 years. He was promoted to the NSCAA Senior Staff in 2005. In that capacity, Marco has taught various levels of the NSCAA academy curriculum courses, and has published numerous articles. From 1999-2001, he served as vice president of the Big East Soccer Coaches for three years.
Marco and his wife, Sheryl, have two children. They reside in Endicott.
BINGHAMTON MENS SOCCER UNDER PAUL MARCO
- 2003 and 2006 America East Champions
- 2006 and 2007 America East Regular Season Champions
- 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2015 America East Runner-Up
- 2003 NCAA Tournament (Second Round)
- 2006 NCAA Tournament (First Round)
- One College Soccer News All-American
- 14 NSCAA All-Region Selections
- Four America East Defensive Players of Year
- Two America East Strikers of the Year
- Three America East Goalkeepers of the Year
- One America East Rookie of the Year
- Nine NSCAA Scholar All-Americans
- 18 America East All-Academic Selections
- Posted the top GPA among Division I mens soccer programs during the 2007-08 academic year
- Binghamton ranked among the top 25 mens soccer programs in terms of average home attendance during the 2007, 2008 and 2009 seasons
THE MARCO FILE
2002-Present: Head Coach, Binghamton University
1996-2001: Head Coach, West Virginia University
1992-95: Assistant Coach, West Virginia University
Paul Marco
Head Men's Soccer Coach
Paul Marco enters his 15th season as the head soccer coach at Binghamton University in 2015. Under his guidance, the Bearcats have been transformed from a team that won just two games the year before his arrival into an established program that has become a fixture on the conference, regional and national scene.
The 2015 campaign marked a resurgence for the Binghamton men's soccer program. It won 10 games, marking its highest total since 2008. This includes a 1-0 win over then No. 28 Ohio State as well as a pair of road wins in the America East Tournament. The Bearcats ended the season by returning to the conference championship game for the first time in seven years. All of this was done with one of the youngest squads in the nation, which was predicted to finish seventh in the conference in the preseason poll. In the classroom, the Bearcats posted the highest GPA (3.27) among any men's soccer program in the America East Conference during the 2015-16 academic year.
Marco has led Binghamton to two America East Conference titles (2003 and 2006), two America East regular season titles (2006 and 2007) and seven appearances in the conference title game. From 2003-08, Binghamton advanced to a conference-record six straight championship games.
As the Bearcats have made their place among the elite squads in the conference, they have also gained attention in the national polls. In four seasons since Marco became the head coach, Binghamton has either received votes or been ranked in both the NSCAA/adidas and College Soccer News weekly polls (2003, 2004, 2005 & 2007). Furthermore, the Bearcats have been ranked among the top 10 teams in the Northeast Region five times since 2003.
Under Marcos guidance, the Bearcats have excelled just as much in the classroom as they have on the playing field. The 2007 team posted the highest combined GPA in the nation (3.37) out of over 200 programs. The Binghamton 2005 squad had the third-highest combined GPA among all NCAA Division I mens soccer programs (3.30), the 2006 team was ranked fourth (3.26) and the 2008 squad tied for fifth (3.30). Individually, Binghamton has had one COSIDA Academic All-American, one COSIDA Academic All-District selection and nine NSCAA Scholar All-Americans since Marco became the head coach.
In 2007, Binghamton moved into the 2,534-seat Bearcats Sports Complex and have since ranked among the top Division I programs in the nation in home attendance three times. The Bearcats were No. 21 in the nation during the 2007 campaign and No. 20 in 2008 and No. 23 in 2009.
Marco led the Bearcats to a 14-6-0 record as well as its second straight America East regular season title during the 2007 campaign. In the process, the Bearcats became the first regular-season repeat champion in 13 years. Binghamtons 14 wins marked its highest total since 1993. Marco was named the America East Coach of the Year for the first time in his career.
The previous year, Marco guided the Bearcats to their first-ever America East Conference regular season title as well as to their second tournament title in four years. Binghamton earned its second trip to the NCAA Division I Tournament and faced No. 17 Harvard in the first round.
In 2003, Marco led the squad to its first-ever America East Championship after the squad was picked to finish eighth in the preseason poll. Binghamton stunned No. 15 Fairleigh Dickinson 1-0 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament before losing 1-0 in overtime at No. 7 St. Louis in the second round. The Bearcats were the first team receiving votes in the NSCAA/adidas season-ending Top 25 poll and Marco was named the New York State Region Coach of the Year
Prior to his arrival at Binghamton, Marco was the head coach at West Virginia from 1996-2001. During his tenure, he guided the Mountaineers to a record of 47-62-4. His best season was in 1999, when West Virginia went 13-5-1 and received the third seed in the Big East Championship tournament. That year, Marco was named the Big East Coach of the Year. In addition, Marcos 1998 team also advanced to the conference tournament, posting an 11-8-1 mark.
Before taking over the head coaching reigns in 1997, Marco served as the Mountaineers assistant coach from 1992-95, helping lead the program to an Atlantic 10 conference championship and NCAA tournament berth in 1992.
A former Division I player for West Virginia, Marco led the program to one of its finest seasons in school history in 1990. His 12 points steered the team to a 12-5-1 recordits best mark in 23 years.
In 1991, Marco graduated cum laude from West Virginia with a bachelors degree in physical education. He is teacher certified in grades K-12. Marco also received his masters degree from West Virgnia University in 1994 in physical education/athletic coaching.
Besides holding a National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Advanced National Diploma and a United States Soccer Federation (USSF) B License, Marco has been a member of the NSCAA national staff for 20 years. He was promoted to the NSCAA Senior Staff in 2005. In that capacity, Marco has taught various levels of the NSCAA academy curriculum courses, and has published numerous articles. From 1999-2001, he served as vice president of the Big East Soccer Coaches for three years.
Marco and his wife, Sheryl, have two children. They reside in Endicott.
BINGHAMTON MENS SOCCER UNDER PAUL MARCO
- 2003 and 2006 America East Champions
- 2006 and 2007 America East Regular Season Champions
- 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2015 America East Runner-Up
- 2003 NCAA Tournament (Second Round)
- 2006 NCAA Tournament (First Round)
- One College Soccer News All-American
- 14 NSCAA All-Region Selections
- Four America East Defensive Players of Year
- Two America East Strikers of the Year
- Three America East Goalkeepers of the Year
- One America East Rookie of the Year
- Nine NSCAA Scholar All-Americans
- 18 America East All-Academic Selections
- Posted the top GPA among Division I mens soccer programs during the 2007-08 academic year
- Binghamton ranked among the top 25 mens soccer programs in terms of average home attendance during the 2007, 2008 and 2009 seasons
THE MARCO FILE
2002-Present: Head Coach, Binghamton University
1996-2001: Head Coach, West Virginia University
1992-95: Assistant Coach, West Virginia University
Brown helped guide Colgate to its third consecutive Patriot League Tournament title in his first season in 2018. The Raiders under Browns guidance became the first Patriot League team to win three straight titles, and they advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament after upsetting No. 22 New Hampshire in the first round.
Colgate in 2018 tied the program record for wins in a season with 13, finishing 13-5-5 overall and 5-2-2 in conference play. Primarily working with goalkeepers, Brown helped guide Colgate to the top of the national ranks in several major defensive categories. The Raiders ranked eighth in shutouts (10), 16th in goals-against average (0.699), 18th in save percentage (0.809), and 19th in shutout percentage (0.478).
Brown was Colgates four-year starting goalkeeper from 2013-17. He finished his career tied for third in program history in career shutouts with 17 clean sheets and helped guide the Raiders to a 2016 Patriot League Tournament Championship and NCAA Tournament appearance and a 2015 regular-season championship. Brown started in 73 games throughout his prolific four-year career, compiling 32 wins, a 0.736 save percentage and 1.32 GAA.
As a senior in 2016, Brown tallied a league-best eight shutouts and was named to the Patriot League All-Tournament team after guiding the Raiders to their sixth-ever Patriot League Championship and NCAA Tournament appearance. The Laguna Hills, Calif. native made 18 saves throughout Colgates Patriot League Tournament run before stopping two of six penalty kick attempts in the championship game to secure Colgates league title.
He earned third team All-Patriot League nods as a junior after finishing the season with a 0.97 goals against average and .800 save percentage. Brown compiled 118 saves during his first two years as Colgates starting keeper as a freshman and sophomore.
Brown graduated from Colgate in May 2017 with a bachelors degree in philosophy. He spent the summer of 2017 as a member of the U23 Nashville SC that competes in the Premier Development League. While in Nashville, Brown also served as a volunteer coach at Lipscomb University and a Goalkeeper Coach at CPS Soccer Academy and Nashville Soccer Academy.
Augusto Lima joined Head Coach Brendan Nash's staff in the summer of 2019 as an Assistant Coach after spending the past two seasons in the same role at nearby Susquehanna University. The native of Campinas, Brazil enjoyed a successful playing career for the River Hawks, starting all 18 games between the pipes during his senior season and earning a 9-7-2 record. He was also named captain of the squad for his senior season.
Additionally, Lima was a member of two Landmark Conference Championships teams in 2012 and 2013. He also ranks third in program history in goals against average, and fourth in shutouts and wins. After his time at Susquehanna, Lima spent a season in the West Coast playing and working in the front office for the Southern California Sports Club in the NPSLs Southwest Conference.
Lima holds a USSF D License and a Goalkeeping Level 3 Diploma from United Soccer Coaches.
Jordan Grant is entering his second season as assistant coach at Belmont, as head coach David Costa announced the addition of Grant to the Bruin staff on July 19, 2019.
In his first season at Belmont, the Bruins finished with a 5-12-2 (1-4-1 SoCon) record and the program's first-ever SoCon Championship semifinal appearance. Belmont shutout its opponents by a combined score of 6-0 in the first two rounds of the tournament before falling in overtime to UNC Greensboro in the semifinal.
Grant, a decorated collegiate player and well-respected in the college and club scenes, came to Belmont after spending the previous two-plus seasons as director of operations at the University of Cincinnati.
Michael Pilger completed his 17th season as head coach of the Trinity College mens soccer team, having guided the Bantams to the NESCAC Championship Tournament in seven of the last eight years. Also a physical education instructor at the College, Pilger came to Trinity from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and the Cleveland Crunch of the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL), after highly successful stints as head coach at the University of Rochester and Kenyon College where he won National Coach of the Year honors in 1990 and was Regional Coach of the Year 4 times. He has taken 3 different teams to the NCAA Tournament and Top 25 National Rankings.
Zack Grady enters his fourth year as an assistant mens soccer coach at Trinity College in 2021. He spent the previous two falls with Wheaton College, where Grady helped coach three All-New England players, three New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) All-Conference First Team players, and the 2016 Rookie of the Year. Grady worked under friend and mentor Matt Cushing at Wheaton until he passed, and then took on running the day-to-day aspects of the program while working with Wheaton's interim head coach Michael Coven, formerly of Brandeis University. He currently also works with FC Stars and coaches the 05 Boys ECNL team.
Grady played soccer at Williams College, appearing in two NCAA Final Fours for the Ephs. He led the NESCAC in goals during his senior year and was named to the All-NESCAC and All-New England squads. Grady also played for the Western Mass. Pioneers and recorded an assist in the U.S. Open Cup, a historic tournament that includes MLS teams, in 2005. Grady earned his bachelor's degree from Williams in history and has a master's degree in applied sports psychology from St. Mary's University in London. He also owns his Advanced National Diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA).
Tufts Mens Soccer Assistant and Goalkeeper Coach
Jeremiah Kneeland enters his 13th season as a head coach and seventh at the helm of the Skidmore men's soccer program in 2019.
Kneeland has guided the Thoroughbreds through one of its most successful runs in program history, compiling a record of 54-35-19 while reaching the Liberty League Championship game three times in five years. In the 2015 season, the team broke into the Top 25 at No. 22; something that had not been done in nearly a decade. He repeated the success in 2017 as the Thoroughbreds rode a 4-0-2 start to a No. 22 United Soccer Coaches ranking.
In his first season at the helm, Kneeland led the Thoroughbreds to an overall record of 12-6-2 and an appearance in the Liberty League championship game for the first time since 2006.
Kneeland compiled a 58-45-7 record at Elmira. The 2009 Empire 8 Conference Coach of the Year, his teams have been to four consecutive Empire 8 tournament semifinals, including a championship appearance in 2011. The 2012 team tied a program record with 13 wins.
In 12 seasons, he has coached 34 all-conference players, nine NSCAA All-Region players and three NSCAA Scholar All-Region student-athletes. Additionally, he coached two NSCAA All-Americans, Adam Beek in 2014 and Adabare Oyeniyi in 2016. On Sept. 15, 2017 against 23rd-ranked Union, Kneeland won his 100th career match as head coach. He sports a 103-74-23 overall record heading into the 2018 season.
A 2005 graduate of Elmira, Kneeland was a three-year starter for the Soaring Eagles, earning all-conference honors twice and serving as team captain his junior and senior years. He received his Master of Science degree from Elmira in 2011.
Kneeland is a member of the United States Soccer Federation and holds his Advanced National Diploma from the NSCAA. He also holds NSCAA regional, and national goalkeeping diplomas.
Noah Riskind 16 of Bethesda, Md., returns to Bates after working as a teacher for the past four years. Riskind first worked as a seventh-grade math teacher in New Bedford, Massachusetts, as a Teach For America corps member, and then taught English in Colombia for two academic years on back to back Fulbright grants.
A member of the varsity soccer team for all four of his years at Bates, Riskind served as captain for two years and earned a First Captains Award, as well as Bates George L. Wigton Scholar Athlete Award. Riskind, a defender, started 54 games during his time at Bates, including all 40 NESCAC regular season games. Riskind was also a member of the 2015 northeast division champion Portland Phoenix PDL team.
Before Bates, Riskind played for Bethesda Soccer Club and was a member of the Region I ODP team. Riskind, an economics major and Spanish minor, also holds a Masters degree in education from Boston University.
Travis Wall is in his fourth season as the head men's soccer coach at St. Olaf in 2022-23. He was hired as St. Olaf's eighth head men's soccer coach on Dec. 18, 2018.
During his time at St. Olaf, Wall has led the Oles to a 43-18-3 (.695) record, including a 22-7-1 (.750) mark in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The Oles have appeared in the "Sweet 16" of the NCAA Tournament in each of the last two seasons, making the program one of just five NCAA Division III men's soccer programs in the country to accomplish that feat. Wall also guided St. Olaf to the 2021 MIAC regular-season title and the 2022 MIAC Playoffs title.
In 2022, St. Olaf advanced to the "Sweet 16" for the second-straight season after defeating Lake Forest College and No. 10 North Central College (Ill.) in the opening rounds before falling in a shootout. As the No. 2 seed in the MIAC Playoffs, the Oles blanked Bethel University, 3-0, in the semifinals before claiming their third tournament title with a 2-1 come-from-behind victory at top-seeded and fifth-ranked Gustavus Adolphus College behind Robi Buzakovic's second goal of the game with 1:01 remaining. St. Olaf finished the season 15-5-2 overall and 7-2-1 in conference play, with three of its five losses coming to top-10 opponents. The Oles also went 9-0-0 at home, winning all of their home games for the fourth time in program history (first since 1998). The 2022 team had four All-MIAC honorees - including the Offensive Player of the Year (Shea Bechtel) and the Rookie of the Year (Robi Buzakovic) - to go with one Honorable Mention All-MIAC selection, 14 Academic All-MIAC honorees, six College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District honorees, four United Soccer Coaches All-Region IX selections, one United Soccer Coaches All-American, one United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-Region honoree, and the program's first-ever United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-American.
In 2021, Wall led St. Olaf to arguably the most successful season in program history, as the Oles matched their deepest-ever run in the NCAA Tournament by advancing to the "Sweet 16." St. Olaf set a new single-season program record for wins in a season by finishing 19-3-1 and the 19 victories also were tied for the most of any team in the country in NCAA Division III. The Oles became just the fifth team in the history of the MIAC to go 10-0 in conference play on their way to winning the fourth outright (seventh overall) MIAC regular-season championship in program history. After leading St. Olaf to the historic season, Wall was named the MIAC Coach of the Year by his peers and he and assistant coaches Justin Oliver and Ben Braman were named the United Soccer Coaches NCAA Division III Region IX Coaching Staff of the Year at the end of the season.
St. Olaf tied the program's longest unbeaten streak with a 16-game streak where the Oles went 15-0-1 from Sept. 12 through Nov. 3, which included a record-tying 15-straight wins from Sept. 15 through Nov. 3. After not being ranked since 2015, the Oles spent six weeks in the United Soccer Coaches Top 25, peaking at No. 10 in the country twice, which was the program's highest ranking since 2011. St. Olaf concluded the season ranked No. 15, marking the joint-highest year-end ranking in program history in the poll. The Oles were also ranked in the D3soccer.com Top 25 in five-straight polls, wrapping up the season at No. 12.
For the first time in program history, St. Olaf had two United Soccer Coaches All-America honorees in the same season, as sophomore Victor Gaulmin was named to the first team and sophomore Hakeem Morgan earned a spot on the second team. The duo were two of only five sophomores nation-wide to be named All-Americans and made St. Olaf one of 11 programs in the country with multiple All-Americans. Gaulmin and Morgan were also two of four Oles to be United Soccer Coaches All-Region honorees and were two of the program's three first-team selections. St. Olaf also had a program record and conference-record-tying six All-MIAC honorees in 2021, including the league's Midfielder of the Year (Victor Gaulmin) and Rookie of the Year (Shea Bechtel).
In his first season on the Hill, Wall led the Oles to their first appearance in the MIAC Playoffs since 2015, as St. Olaf finished 9-10 overall and 5-5 in the MIAC. Under his guidance, St. Olaf had five student-athletes earn All-MIAC or Honorable Mention All-MIAC honors, which was the highest total for the program since 1993. The Oles were picked eighth in the MIAC Preseason Coaches' Poll but defeated three teams picked ahead of them to return to the MIAC Playoffs and post the program's highest win total and MIAC win total since 2015.
After the COVID-19 pandemic wiped out the fall 2020 season, St. Olaf played eight exhibition contests in the spring of 2021 and St. Olaf went 4-2-2 in those eight games with wins over Augsburg, Bethel, St. Thomas, and Concordia-Moorhead.
A former NCAA Division III National Player of the Year, Wall came to St. Olaf after four seasons on the staff at his alma mater, Ohio Wesleyan University, under Jay Martin, the winningest coach in NCAA men's soccer history. After joining Martin's staff in 2015 as an assistant coach, Wall was promoted to associate head coach in April 2017 and also served as the recruiting coordinator for the Battling Bishops.
In Wall's four seasons on the coaching staff at Ohio Wesleyan, the Battling Bishops posted a combined record of 51-21-9 (.685), including a mark of 25-5-6 (.778) in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC). Ohio Wesleyan made three NCAA Tournament appearances and advanced to the NCAC Tournament title game three times in his four seasons on staff.
Wall also served as Ohio Wesleyan's camp director, recruiting coordinator, travel coordinator and assisted in the development of training plans. He recruited the 2016, 2017 and 2018 NCAC Freshmen of the Year and also coached the NCAC Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year in 2015.
As a student-athlete at Ohio Wesleyan, Wall was a two-time NSCAA First Team All-American (2010, 2011) and was named the NSCAA National Player of the Year after captaining the Battling Bishops to the 2011 NCAA Division III National Championship, with Wall scoring in each of the team's final four games in the NCAA Tournament. As a senior, Wall finished fifth in the country in points (53), ninth in goals (19) and fourth in assists (15) as a member of the third-highest-scoring team in the country.
Over his four-year career at Ohio Wesleyan, Wall's teams went a combined 78-11-5 (.856), as he finished his career in the program's top-five in goals (49), assists (36) and points (134). Following his career, Wall was named to the North Coast Athletic Conference Men's Soccer All-Decade Team (2003-12). During his sophomore season, Wall started all 22 games for the team that boasted the statistically-best defense in the country, allowing just six goals in over 2,000 minutes to lead the country in shutout percentage (.773) and goals-against average (0.27).
Wall went on to play professional soccer for Minnesota United FC (formerly Minnesota Stars FC) of the North American Soccer League (NASL) from April 2012 to January 2014, after spending preseason with the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer (MLS).
Wall's coaching career started at the University of St. Thomas, where he was an assistant coach during the 2012 and 2013 seasons, helping guide the Tommies to a record of 21-9-7 (.662). There, he assisted with all facets of the program and designed and implemented offseason cardio programs.
In 2014, Wall served as the Director of Soccer Operations at Division I Xavier University, as the Musketeers advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. At Xavier, he worked with the 2014 BIG East Staff of the Year during a season that saw the Musketeers set program records for wins, shutouts and goals-against average.
Wall also carries three seasons of high-level club coaching experience as the head coach of the U19 Ohio Premier Soccer Club Green team and was named the 2018 United Soccer Coaches Midwest Regional Coach of the Year. In 2018, he led the team to the U19 Elite National Premier League (ENPL) National Championship with a team that had eight members sign to play at Division I programs, including Elite Clubs National League (ECNL) National Player of the Year Luke Kiley. The team finished in fifth place at US Youth Soccer (USYS) Nationals in 2017 and was a semifinalist in 2016.
Wall graduated from Ohio Wesleyan in 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts and went on to earn his Master's in recreation and sport sciences from Ohio University in June 2016. In 2017, Wall obtained his C License from U.S. Soccer Federation. His older siblings, Tyler and Sarah, were both three-time All-America selections in soccer at Ohio Wesleyan.
Nick played for Western Connecticut State University his Junior and Senior seasons serving as Captain his senior year when the team won their first conference title in 12 years. Nick has been an assistant coach at westconn since 2020.
Nick also coaches as a Head Coach for AC Connecticut out of Danbury, CT.
As Head coach the team's 15-2-1 season in 2015 lifted the Monroe Eagles program to a victorious championship season in the PSAL of New York City "B" Division.
Subsequently, I am recruiting talent to excel at my present position as Field Coach with the Medgar Evers College Mens Program.
My name is Filipe Goncalves. I just joined the Drew Mens Soccer team as an Assistant Coach. I played at Drew for 4 years and made it to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament my senior year. I just recently came back from Portugal where I played professionally for the last 3 years (2018-2021).
Marco DeVito joins the AMCATS as the Mens Soccer Graduate Assistant for the 2020-2021 season.
DeVito spent the 2019-2020 season working with FC Malaga City in Almuñècar, Spain, working with the U19 academy team and the Juvenil A squad for A.D. Almuñècar 77.
He previously has experience with the Quincy College Granite at the NJCAA level as the volunteer assistant coach for the mens program in the fall of 2017 as well as the preseason of 2019. In its inaugural year of the program, DeVito helped lead the Granite to their first two wins in program history.
DeVito was a full-time member of staff for Mass City FC located in Norwell, MA, coaching teams of all ages as well as operating as the Tournament Director and Social Media Director.
Marco was recently named to USC 30 under 30 class of 2020-2021. He also holds his USSF D license and the Goalkeeping Level One Diploma with the USC.
Originally from Braintree, MA, he completed his undergraduate studies at Siena College with a Bachelors degree in History and a double minor in Educational Studies and Italian. During his time at Anna Maria College, DeVito will earn his masters degree in Counseling Psychology.
Capobianco has been head coach of the Regis men's soccer team since 2011. Taking over a team that won only eight games in its first three seasons, he has steadily improved the quality of the program and in 2015 coached the Pride to the first winning season in program history. His Regis teams also have posted winning conference records in three of his five seasons.
Prior to Regis he served for 10 seasons as the Boys Head Varsity Soccer Coach for Weston High School where in 2009, the team captured the MIAA Division 3 state title and Capobianco was named Boston Globe Coach of the Year.
Capobianco's previous college experience was in 1989 where for five seasons he was the Head Men's Soccer Coach at Cuyamaca College (CA). In 1991, he was named Pacific Coast Conference Coach of the Year.
From 1991-94, he served as Team Administrator for the Men's US National team as it prepared for the 1994 World Cup. During this period, the US National Team played over 80 games in over 24 countries culminating in the 1994 World Cup that was held in the United States.
In 1995 he held the post of Deputy Competition Manager for the South Florida soccer venue of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.
From 1996 through 2001, he worked in Major League Soccer as both an assistant coach (Tampa Bay Mutiny, New England Revolution) and as a Director of Soccer (San Jose Earthquakes, New England Revolution). In 1996, he was the Assistant Coach of the East Team of the MLS All-Star Game.
In 2002-03, he served as a Strength & Conditioning coach at Harvard University and is also a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength & Conditioning Association. He also holds an A License from US Soccer, a Premier Diploma from the NSCAA, and a Masters Degree In Exercise Science from San Diego State University.
Capobianco has served as staff coach and Head U15 Boys Coach for Massachusetts Olympic Development Program currently is the U18 Boys Coach for Lexington United.
Assistant Coach, Recruiting Coordinator (Second Email)
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McKersie completed his college soccer career in the fall of 2018 as part of Allegheny College's men's soccer team where he served as a two-year captain and was a 2nd team All-NCAC selection in 2018. He was also named the team defensive MVP in 2017 and 2018. At Allegheny, McKersie received a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology. He served as the Assistant Men's Soccer Coach at Chatham University from 2019 to 2021 where he helped start the brand new Division III Men's Soccer program at Chatham. He also completed a Master of Arts in Psychology at Chatham and completed his U.S. Soccer D License in the Spring of 2021. McKersie accepted a position at Emerson College in the Spring of 2021 where he now serves as the assistant coach and the recruitment coordinator.
orreia was hired as the Head Men's Soccer Coach in August of 2017, winning the conference championship with an undefeated league record in his first season and delivering the Vikings to the NCAA Tournament. In his first 3 seasons at Salem State, the team has reached the championship game two times (MASCAC Title in 2017) and compiled a conference record of 17-1-3.
Correia, who led Daniel Webster for six seasons, built a highly successful program during his tenure. The two-time New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) Coach of the Year, led the Eagles to three straight NECC titles, and three straight NCAA Division III Tournament berths, which included the school's first tournament win in the program's history this past season.
As head coach, Correia has compiled an impressive [105-53-15](tel:105-53-15) record over his 9 seasons, while coaching 37 all-conference selections, including the Conference top goalkeeper six times, conference top rookie four times and the conference player of the year three times.
A native of Dracut, Mass., Correia is a 2010 graduate of UMass Dartmouth where he played four seasons of varsity soccer for the Corsairs while serving as team captain his junior and senior years. In addition, Correia has several years of experience working club soccer, youth camps, and clinics and is a NSCAA Advanced National Diploma recipient.
I am representing Clarks Summit University as the Head Men's Soccer Coach. I am excited to connect with future college soccer players looking to take the step to the next level.
- Entering his second year as an Assistant coach at Ursinus College
- Three year captain at Ursinus from 2016-2019
-Coaches three teams U15 at WestMont United in Royersford, Pennsylvania
-Spent three summers as a teacher, mentor, and coach at Strive Sports Challenge, a residential leadership development academy for student-athletes from around the country.
Max Correa begins his first season as the Graduate Assistant for the Wilkes Men's Soccer team in 2019.
Correa joins the Colonels after a four-year career at Drew University. Most recently, Correa served as a coach with the United Soccer Academy in Chatham, New Jersey, where he helped with ID Clinics and coaching individual players. Correa also holds a United States Soccer Federation Grassroots Certification (National D License).
John O'Connor enters his eighth season at the helm of Castleton University in 2020. He holds a career record of 235-194-47 (110-76-18 in conference play) over his 25 year head coaching career.
Over his first five seasons with the Spartans, O'Connor has led CU to the 2017 North Atlantic Conference regular season championship, tournament title and a berth in the NCAA Championship, the 2013 NAC regular season championship and a share of the 2015 NAC title. O'Connor picked up his 200th career win in the Spartans' victory over Western New England in the 2015 ECAC Division III Tournament Quarterfinal. He was named 2017 NAC Coach of the Year - his third such honor.
O'Connor's 2013 squad posted an 8-1-1 conference record to earn the regular season championship and top seed in the North Atlantic Conference Tournament before falling to eventual NAC Champion Thomas. Senior Nate Koenemann was named the Defensive Player of the Year and became the program's first NSCAA All-Region selection since 2010, when he was voted to the first team. Overall, O'Connor had five players earn NAC All-Conference honors and was himself named the NAC Coach of the Year as the team finished 13-4-2 overall.
Prior to Castleton, O'Connor served as the head coach for the University of Rhode Island from 2006-2012. During his tenure with the Rams he won an Atlantic 10 Tournament Championship and reached the tournament semifinals on two other occasions. Five of his former players went on to play professional soccer, and three of which played in Major League Soccer, including former U.S. Men's National Team and Stoke City (EPL) defender Geoff Cameron who currently plays for Queens Park in England.
In addition to his work at the Division I level, O'Connor also served as the head coach at Division III University of Chicago from 1995-2006. In just his second season the team reached the national semifinal and he was named the NSCAA Division III National Coach of the Year. He reached the NCAA Tournament again in 2001 and 2005 when his teams were ranked in the top-15 nationally. While at Chicago he also served as an associate professor in the department of Physical Education.
O'Connor earned his Bachelors of Science in Physical Education from the University of Maine-Orono in 1984 and two years later completed his masters in Education with a concentration in Leadership. From 1990-95, he spent five seasons as an assistant coach at Dartmouth under Bobby Clark, the present coach at the University of Notre Dame. He was a part of two Ivy League Championships with the Big Green, who reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division I Tournament twice during his tenure in Hanover.
The collegiate head coach earned a USSF "A" License and holds a NSCAA Premier Diploma. He is active in coaching education through the United Soccer Coaches, US Soccer and works with the Vermont Olympic Development Program as well as being the Director of Coaching/Technical Director for Summit Futbol Club. He has served as a site representative for the NCAA Division III National Tournament as well as on the NCAA Division III Regional and D3.com ranking committees.
O'Connor resides in Rutland with his wife Sheila, a former 20 year college swim coach and the Castleton University Aquatics Coordinator, and their children Megan (18) and Michael (16).
- Goucher College Men's Soccer Assistant
- Baltimore Union
- USSF "C" License
- FA Wales "C" Certificate
Thakar has won a combined 366 wins and nine conference championships, while making 16 postseason appearances. Thakar enters his 19th season with the men and 15th with the women in 2016 for a combined record of 366-237-55 (.598). Coach Thakars Profile: PAC Champions: Nine Times M: 2002, 2006, 2008, 2015 W: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 NCAA Tournament: Nine Times M: 2002, 2004, 2008, 2015 W: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 ECAC Championship: 2006, 2007, 2008 National All-Americans: 3 Regional All-Americans: 39 All-Conference Selections: 140 ESPN Academic All-District Selection: 20 Thakar took the reins of the Westminster womens program on an interim basis in 2002, then was named permanent head coach prior to the 2003 season. During the past 14 seasons, the Titan women are a combined 182-89-29 (.655) with five PAC championships and four-straight NCAA tournament appearances from 2002-05. Thakars 18-year record as Westminsters mens coach is 184-148-26 (.550), including a team-record 17-6 mark in 2008 after the Titans won the PAC title and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament. In 2015, the Titans won their fourth PAC title; Westminster advanced to the finals after upsetting the No. 2 nationally ranked Thomas More College in the Semifinals. Westminster qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the fifth time, however lost to No. 1/5 Kenyon College in the first round.
Since Thakar took over both teams, Westminster has qualified for the NCAA Championships nine times, including four for the men (2002, 2004, 2008, 2015) and five for the women (2002-05, 2007). In addition, the nine Presidents Athletic Conference (PAC) titles the Titans have collected includes four for the men (2002, 2006, 2008, 2015) and five for the women (2002-04, 2006-07). Thakar was named PAC Coach of the Year five times, three for womens soccer (2002, 2005, 2006) and two for mens (2008, 2015).
Both teams won the PAC title in the same year in 2002 and 2006, with the latter considered Thakars finest year of coaching as both teams won the league crowns as underdogs and qualified for the postseason in the ECAC Division III South Championships.
Prior to coaching at Westminster, Thakar was the head mens coach at his alma mater, Slippery Rock University, from 1993-96, after graduating from SRU in 1991 and later earning a masters degree from the school. As a player at Slippery Rock, Thakar was a four-year starter who earned All-PSAC honors.
Girish Thakar
Head Coach
Having coached the Westminster College mens and womens soccer teams concurrently since 2002 and the mens team since 1998, Girish Thakar has won a combined 366 wins and nine conference championships, while making 16 postseason appearances. Thakar enters his 19th season with the men and 15th with the women in 2016 for a combined record of 366-237-55 (.598). Coach Thakars Profile: PAC Champions: Nine Times M: 2002, 2006, 2008, 2015 W: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 NCAA Tournament: Nine Times M: 2002, 2004, 2008, 2015 W: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 ECAC Championship: 2006, 2007, 2008 National All-Americans: 3 Regional All-Americans: 39 All-Conference Selections: 140 ESPN Academic All-District Selection: 20 Thakar took the reins of the Westminster womens program on an interim basis in 2002, then was named permanent head coach prior to the 2003 season. During the past 14 seasons, the Titan women are a combined 182-89-29 (.655) with five PAC championships and four-straight NCAA tournament appearances from 2002-05. Thakars 18-year record as Westminsters mens coach is 184-148-26 (.550), including a team-record 17-6 mark in 2008 after the Titans won the PAC title and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament. In 2015, the Titans won their fourth PAC title; Westminster advanced to the finals after upsetting the No. 2 nationally ranked Thomas More College in the Semifinals. Westminster qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the fifth time, however lost to No. 1/5 Kenyon College in the first round.
Since Thakar took over both teams, Westminster has qualified for the NCAA Championships nine times, including four for the men (2002, 2004, 2008, 2015) and five for the women (2002-05, 2007). In addition, the nine Presidents Athletic Conference (PAC) titles the Titans have collected includes four for the men (2002, 2006, 2008, 2015) and five for the women (2002-04, 2006-07). Thakar was named PAC Coach of the Year five times, three for womens soccer (2002, 2005, 2006) and two for mens (2008, 2015).
Both teams won the PAC title in the same year in 2002 and 2006, with the latter considered Thakars finest year of coaching as both teams won the league crowns as underdogs and qualified for the postseason in the ECAC Division III South Championships.
Prior to coaching at Westminster, Thakar was the head mens coach at his alma mater, Slippery Rock University, from 1993-96, after graduating from SRU in 1991 and later earning a masters degree from the school. As a player at Slippery Rock, Thakar was a four-year starter who earned All-PSAC honors.
David Krems is in his first season as head men's soccer coach at Mount Union.
Krems has spent the last two seasons as an assistant men's soccer coach at Penn State-Behrend in Erie, Pennsylvania. In those seasons, he helped lead the Lions to a 35-6-2 record with a pair of Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference titles, and two NCAA Tournament appearances including a run to the round of 16 in 2018.
Prior to being at Penn State-Behrend, Krems had assistant coaching stints at Case Western Reserve University, Notre Dame College, Hiram College and Xavier University.
Krems was a four-year starter as a player at Hiram as the Terriers went 43-17-13 over his career and he is currently seventh in school history in career goals.
A native of Lakewood, Ohio, he graduated from Hiram with a bachelor's degree in Business Management.
Furey brings 30 years of experience as a collegiate head coach. He is approaching 350 career victories which includes a National Championship in 2014. Furey has received numerous honors including NSCAA National Coach of the Year two times. The coach has also founded and directed successful camps and youth programs for the past 20 years at MVNU and Lee.
Matt Guinto joins the Vassar College mens soccer coaching staff as an assistant for the upcoming 2019 season. A Syracuse, NY-native, Guinto comes to Vassar having spent two seasons as the assistant coach at Utica College.
In his first season at Utica, Guinto helped the program recover from a 2-13-1 campaign in 2016 to an 8-9-2 record in the 2017 season. He leaves Utica after two seasons as the assistant, helping the program to 13 combined wins and recording the programs first-ever victories over Stevens Technology and Hobart College.
Guintos first experiences with coaching came at the club level with Greater Binghamton Football Club (Binghamton, NY) and with New York State West Olympic Development Program (ODP). He coached the 02 Select Boys side to three consecutive finals in 2016, as well as a semi-final penalty shootout loss at the 2017 Disney Wide World of Sports Presidents Day Cup, and a championship at the 2017 FC Delco Championships. Guinto also played three seasons for the clubs NPSL team and led the team in minutes played his debut season. He helped his side record wins over DC United and New York Red Bulls, and has made 3 appearances in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup.
Guinto is a USSF National D-Licensed and NSCAA Level 6-Licensed coach. He also holds a Level 1 Goalkeeper License through the NSCAA.
Schmid, who joined Kylie Stannard's staff in May of 2019, has been a part of two very successful programs in his young coaching career with his teams posting a 47-8-5 overall record. In 2018 as an assistant at Amherst, he helped the Mammoths to 14 victories, including two in the NCAA Tournament, while also serving as the recruiting coordinator.
Schmid joined the Amherst staff after spending two seasons on the Springfield College staff, including serving as the Interim Head Coach in the spring of 2018. Springfield posted an impressive 33-3-4 record during his tenure.
Schmid holds both a bachelors degree in physical education and a masters degree in sports psychology from Springfield. He was a four-year starter for the mens soccer team, including serving as team captain as a senior.
Bill comes highly recommended from some top coaches in the college game, Stannard said. Hes quite possibly one of the most experienced college coaches in the country for his age. Hes worked for two incredible coaches and top 20 Division III programs at Springfield College and Amherst College. He has experience recruiting and working with top tier academic student-athletes and has been involved with every aspect of both those programs. Bill was recently a finalist for the volunteer assistant position at Stanford, so I feel extremely lucky that we were able to keep him close to home in Connecticut. Hes already hit the ground running and his work ethic and drive will be a huge asset to our program and student-athletes.
Danny Jarosz is currently the Assistant Coach for the Marquette University Men's Soccer team. After serving as a Head Coach at the Division III level, Jarosz returned to his alma mater in 2020. In 2021, Marquette won the Big East Midwest regular season Championship, and advanced to the Sweet 16. While playing at Marquette, he started at Center Back before an injury ended his playing career. He earned his Master's Degree in Leadership from Wisconsin Lutheran College.
Joe, was a former division 2 goalkeeper at Adelphi University. A native of Yonkers, New York, Joe has both NPSL and UPSL experience with the Brooklyn Italians, Fox Soccer Pro, and Westchester United. His coaching background consists of being the former Goalkeeper Coach for the New York Cosmos, Iona College Goalkeeper Coach, and is now the current goalkeeper coach for Connecticut FC.
Edison Sanchez
Assistant Coach at Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York. NCAA Division 1
Drexel University Assistant 2020-Currently
Role is Planning and Executing Training, (Team and Goalkeepers) Opposition Scouting and all Analysis duties.
Former Canisius defender Andrew Incho was named an assistant coach with the Golden Griffin mens soccer team in August 2019.
Incho returned to Main Street after a two-year stint as an assistant coach with the mens soccer program at Elmira College under former Canisius assistant Kevin Brenner.
I am very excited to welcome Andrew back to Canisius, head coach Dermot McGrane said. Hiring a new coach right before the start of the year is not ideal, but having been a player and a volunteer coach at Canisius in the past, Andrews transition will be seamless and he will hit the ground running. He will be a tremendous addition to our program.
During his two seasons with the Eagles, Incho was responsible for the recruitment of one of the largest incoming classes in program history as well as the training and development of the squads goalkeepers. He also provided one-on-one player development and video review along with overseeing the programs academic progress that resulted in the squad carrying a team GPA of 3.0 or higher for six consecutive semesters.
"I'd like to thank Coach McGrane for allowing me the chance to come back and be a part of this amazing program, Incho said. I am extremely excited and honored to be able to return to Canisius and be a Golden Griffin once again."
Prior to his time at Elmira, Incho spent three seasons on McGranes staff as a volunteer assistant coach with Canisius (2014-16). As an assistant, Incho created and ran training sessions with field players and goalkeepers. Incho also helped oversee 2016 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year Thomas Teupen and four MAAC All-Conference selections. He also helped guide the Griffs to a MAAC Tournament appearance in 2015, their first postseason appearance in four seasons.
In addition to his responsibilities at Canisius, Incho also worked as an assistant coach for the U-17 Empire United Buffalo squad and as the head coach of the Amherst Soccer Associations U-16 boys team.
A four-year letterwinner at Canisius, Incho made 21 starts in 62 games on the Canisius backline and tallied nine career points (3g, 6a). Inchos most memorable moment came when he scored the game-winning goal against cross-town rival Buffalo, which earned him the second-best play on ESPN SportsCenters Top 10 Plays that night.
Incho graduated from Canisius in 2013 with a bachelors degree in communications. He earned his masters degree in general management from Elmira in 2019.
Nick Regan joins the VMI Mens Soccer Coaching Staff for the 2020-2021 season. Regan is originally from Yateley, United Kingdom, but did his collegiate studies in the United States. Nick played at North Iowa Area Community College, where he was part of the Mens Soccer team from 2008-2010. Nick graduated with his Associates Degree in 2010. Regan went on to receive a Bachelor of Science in Strategic Management from Devry University. While studying at Devry, Nick played a season with the Orlando City S.C. U23 team. Nick received a MBA from Purdue University in 2020. He also has playing experience for Fleet Town F.C. (UK) from 2005-2008.
Nick works predominantly with the programs attackers and goalkeepers and has a United Soccer Coaches Pre-National Diploma.
Doyle has spent 7 seasons as a member of the Air Force Academy Soccer staff. During his collegiate career, Doyle was a premier goalkeeper at Creighton and was named Defensive Player of the Year for the Missouri Valley Conference.
Charlie Pilger re-joined the Keene State College men's soccer team in 2019. Pilger had been on staff for the 2017 season, before spending the 2018 season on staff at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
A three year player for the Owls, Pilger played in 13 games across the Owls back line. His senior season, the Owls reached the Little East Conference championship game for the first time since 2011.
Pilger's previous experience in coaching is rooted in Cheshire County, having served as the head JV coach at Monadnock Regional High School and as an assistant coach with the Huskies' varsity program. He also coached for Connecticut Football Club and managed the CFC Arena, and is a coach and regional director for No. 1 Soccer Camps.
As part of our COVID-19 safety plan, the indoor sessions traditionally held on the first day of camp will be shared online.
Sessions will be accessible for the week prior to camp. They are available on-demand and can be completed at the athlete's
convenience.
This approach allows us to continue offering these valuable sessions so athletes arrive to camp ready to maximize the experience,
while still maintaining a safe experience.
Over 1,000 different college coaches have attended EXACT's events and will receive access to game video from camp. See below for just a few that attended recent events in this region. As they're announced, coaches will be added to the Confirmed College Coaches section.
Assistant Coach
Yale
Division 1
Schmid, who joined Kylie Stannard's staff in May of 2019, has been a part of two very successful programs in his young coaching career with his teams posting a 47-8-5 overall record. In 2018 as an assistant at Amherst, he helped the Mammoths to 14 victories, including two in the NCAA Tournament, while also serving as the recruiting coordinator.
Schmid joined the Amherst staff after spending two seasons on the Springfield College staff, including serving as the Interim Head Coach in the spring of 2018. Springfield posted an impressive 33-3-4 record during his tenure.
Schmid holds both a bachelors degree in physical education and a masters degree in sports psychology from Springfield. He was a four-year starter for the mens soccer team, including serving as team captain as a senior.
Bill comes highly recommended from some top coaches in the college game, Stannard said. Hes quite possibly one of the most experienced college coaches in the country for his age. Hes worked for two incredible coaches and top 20 Division III programs at Springfield College and Amherst College. He has experience recruiting and working with top tier academic student-athletes and has been involved with every aspect of both those programs. Bill was recently a finalist for the volunteer assistant position at Stanford, so I feel extremely lucky that we were able to keep him close to home in Connecticut. Hes already hit the ground running and his work ethic and drive will be a huge asset to our program and student-athletes.
Assistant Coach
Dartmouth
Division 1
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Assistant Coach
Cornell
Division 1
Scott Bratt joined the Cornell men's soccer coaching staff in advance of the 2018 season after serving as an assistant coach for one year at SUNY Cortland. He helped guide the team to a 15-2 record in the regular season and a trip into the second round of the NCAA tournament while helping to develop five United Soccer Coaches All-East Region players in the process.
Previous to working with Cortland, Bratt served as the Head of Football and Sport Development at Crawley Town FC in West Sussex, England where he was responsible for overseeing the clubs youth player Development Centers and also worked as a performance analyst for the highly respected Southampton FC Academy, England.
Bratt attended Southampton Solent University in England, earning a First-Class Bachelor of Arts Honor Degree in Football (Soccer) Studies in 2015. Bratt earned a Master of Science in International Sport Management from SUNY Cortland in 2018.
Bratt has gained his FA Level 2 and FA Youth Modules in coaching, as well as FA qualifications in futsal, psychology, and analysis. As a player, he competed in both soccer and rugby at Warden Park Secondary School and mid-Sussex representational squad and helped lead the soccer team to a County championship. Bratt is a native of Brighton, England.
Assistant Coach
Georgetown
Division 1
Mike Casper joined the coaching staff in the spring of 2019. Casper came to the Hilltop from Northwestern University where he was an assistant coach for one season. Prior to NU, he was at the University of Notre Dame for three years and served as the head coach at Saint Francis University (Pa.) for eight seasons.
Last year, the Wildcats went 6-9-5 overall before falling to top-seeded Indiana in overtime in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals.
In three seasons as an assistant at Notre Dame, Casper helped the Fighting Irish reach the NCAA Tournament every year as the team managed a combined record of 34-19-10. Casper also coached five Notre Dame players who went on to be drafted to the MLS.
Prior to his arrival at Notre Dame, Casper was the head coach at Saint Francis where he led the Red Flash to the Northeast Conference (NEC) regular-season title in 2014 with a school record 13-6-1 mark. For his efforts, he was named the league's coach of the year.
Over his eight seasons as head coach, Casper led Saint Francis to a 71-61-21 record, including a 36-26-9 mark in NEC play. The 71 total victories and the 36 league wins are the most in school history. The Red Flash was the NEC finalist four times with Casper at the helm.
Casper coached 24 All-NEC players, 15 National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) all-region performers and an NSCAA All-American during his time as head coach at Saint Francis. Eight of his players went on to the professional ranks.
In addition to the success on the field, the Red Flash produced three Academic All-Americans and 10 Academic All-District players during his tenure. The program also received the NSCAA Team Academic Award four times (2011-14).
Overall Casper was with the Red Flash for the last 12 seasons. Prior to taking over the head coaching position, he spent four seasons as an assistant coach in charge of the team's goalkeepers.
A four-year member of the UMBC men's soccer team, Casper helped lead the Retrievers to a NEC Championship in 1999. During Casper's four-year career at UMBC, the Retrievers posted a record of 54-19-11 going 30-7-3 in NEC play.
Following his collegiate career, Casper served as head junior varsity and assistant varsity coach at Timothy Christian High School (N.J.) for two seasons (2001-02). In 2000, Casper served as head coach of the Central Jersey Riptide in the Professional Development League.
He holds an A License from the United States Soccer Federation and an advanced regional diploma from the NSCAA.
Casper received his master's degree in education leadership from Saint Francis in 2005 and is a 2000 graduate of UMBC with a bachelor's degree in psychology. He and his wife Kerri have a son, Jacob.
Assistant Coach
West Virginia
Division 1
Third year Assistant Coach/Goalkeeper Coach at West Virginia University
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Division 1
Assistant Coach
Sacred Heart
Division 1
Brian Neumeyer joined the Sacred Heart coaching staff in 2017.
Neumeyer as the General Manager of the former Elm City Express of the NPSL, won a National Championship in its inaugural season in 2017.
He spent 19 years as the head coach of boys varsity soccer team at Newtown High School. Under his direction, the soccer program was named one of the top ten sports programs of the decade by the Danbury News-Times.
Neumeyer was also a member of the 1990 National Championship team at Southern Connecticut State University where he was a teammate of SHU Head Coach Joe Barroso.
As the former coaching director of Newtown Soccer Club, and a former Olympic Development Program staff coach, Neumeyer now works closely with local youth clubs in a coaching advisory role.
Along with coaching Neumeyer works as an educator for the Stratford BOE.
Neumeyer resides in Monroe, Connecticut, with his wife and their two sons.
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Assistant Coach
Hofstra
Division 1
Shaun Foster joined the Hofstra Men's Soccer staff in July 2018.
Foster returns to Hofstra as one of the program's most decorated alumni. He is one of just four All-Americans in program history, earning third-team honors in 2012, after three all-region selections, including a pair of first-team nods in 2011 and 2012. A three-time Colonial Athletic Association Defensive Player of the Year and a CAA Rookie of the Year, Foster was also named a finalist for the MAC Hermann Award, which honors the national player of the year. He was also invited to the MLS Combine.
After his playing career, Foster served as an undergraduate assistant coach with the program. He then joined the men's soccer staff at Molloy as an assistant coach in June 2016, planning and run team practices as well as helping recruit. He has also worked as a coach in the Massapequa Soccer Club since August 2010, where he has coached his U16, U17 and U18 teams to three straight New York State Championships.
A native of Southport, England, Foster graduated from Hofstra in December 2014 with a bachelor's degree in rhetoric.
Assistant Coach
Marist
Division 1
Rob Esposito currently assists Matt Viggiano in coaching the Marist Red Foxes, and also holds the title Technical Director at Quickstrike FC. As a student-athlete, Esposito played at Herkimer Community College from 2004-2006, where the team finished as national runners-up in 2004 and won a National Championship in 2005. Following his time at Herkimer, Esposito enrolled at SUNY Fredonia, playing from 2006-2008, when the team finished as SUNYAC runners-up in 2006 and conference champions in 2007. During his time at Fredonia, Esposito was named NSCAA All-Region twice and after graduation, played for the Westchester Flames of the PDL.
Esposito began coaching in 2011 at Dutchess Community College, before he was hired as an assistant at Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh from 2012-17, winning a conference championship during the 2013 season. Esposito holds a FAW C License.
Assistant Coach
Manhattan
Division 1
Edison Sanchez
Assistant Coach at Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York. NCAA Division 1
Associate Head Coach
Fordham
Division 1
Joining the Fordham men's soccer staff in 2018 is assistant coach Philip Bannister.
Bannister is very familiar with Acquista having been on his coaching staff at Adelphi University. Bannister spent two seasons with the Panthers and was a part of the 2017 East Region Coaching Staff of the Year after Adelphi won the Northeast-10 regular season championship and finished with a #14 national ranking. In 2018, the Panthers once again claimed the NE-10 regular season championship, while also winning the tournament championship.
Prior to Adelphi, Bannister spent three years at St. John's University. He served his first two years as a graduate assistant with the Red Storm before transitioning to the position of volunteer assistant and joined St. John's after one season as a graduate assistant with the women's soccer team at Bloomsburg.
Following a standout collegiate career at Loyola (Md.), the Wallsend, England native was drafted by the Colorado Rapids in the 2011 MLS Supplemental Draft. Bannister went on to play for the DC United U-23 team before returning home to England to play semi-professionally for Blyth Spartans AFC.
A four-time All-MAAC selection, Bannister was a two-time first team choice and a two-time second team honoree. As a freshman, the forward earned MAAC Rookie of the Year honors and led all Division I freshmen in scoring after totaling 13 goals and seven assists. Bannister finished his career ranked eighth in program-history in goals (40), a mark that included 13 game-winners, tied for first in assists (29) and sixth in points (109).
A Lowe's Senior CLASS Award Finalist as a senior, Bannister was a two-time ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-America selection. Bannister, who owns FA Level 1 and FA Level 2 coaching badges, graduated from Loyola in 2011 with a degree in marketing and earned an MBA in finance from St. John's.
Head Coach
Saint Peter's
Division 1
Julian Richens enters his 10th season as the head coach of the mens soccer program at Saint Peter's in 2020-21.
Richens' ninth year in Jersey City was hands down his most successful after guiding the Peacocks to their winningest season in a decade and an outright Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) regular season title. Saint Peter's finished the year with a 13-6-0 overall record as well as a program-best 9-1-0 mark in league play. Along the way, Richens and his staff propelled the squad to an appearance in the 2019 MAAC Championship Finals -- their first such appearance since their last title in 2010 -- after a program-record 10-game winning/unbeaten streak. Despite finishing as the league tournament runners-up, the Peacocks still earned their first regular season crown since 2010 and posted the third-highest win total in single-season school history.
For his efforts behind the bench, Richens earned his first MAAC Coach of the Year award since taking command in 2011 by unanimous selection after the team was selected seventh in the preseason coaches' poll. Richens is the fourth Peacock coach in the program's history to earn the honor, following Gerry McKeown (1994), Cesar Markovic (2003), and Guy Abrahamson (2010). But he was not alone in earning major hardware, as Dominic Laws '21 was named the MAAC Offensive Player of the Year. The combination of Richens and Laws marked only the second time in program history in which two Peacocks both received MAAC men's soccer major awards, with the other pair being Assaf Sheleg and Guy Abrahamson, who were the Defensive Player of the Year and Coach of the Year, respectively, in 2010.
Additionally, the Peacocks also led the league with their seven all-conference honorees in 2019, a figure that is tied for the most in a single season in program history (2006). Both Laws and classmate Jordan Jowers '21 also gathered additional postseason hardware as all-region selections by the ECAC and United Soccer Coaches' Association. Saint Peter's also boasted a league-leading 15 MAAC All-Academic Team honorees, as well.
In 2018, Richens helped Saint Peter's post a 5-4-1 MAAC record and 8-9-2 overall record, improving on both MAAC and overall records from the 2017 campaign. Richens' team finished the regular season in sixth place, qualifying for the MAAC playoffs for the first time under his leadership and last time since 2010. During the season, the team had a three-game shutout stretch for the first time since 2010 and scored four goals in consecutive games for the first time since 2007. Richens coached three All-MAAC players in sophomores Jordan Jowers (1st Team) and Dominic Laws (2nd Team), and freshman Jason Dubrovich (Rookie Team), making them the first Peacock trio since 2010 to earn all-league honors in the same season. Additionally, Richens had three separate players win MAAC weekly awards during the season, the teams most weekly honors since 2013.
Over the past two seasons, Richens sports a 21-15-2 overall mark (.553) and a 14-5-1 MAAC tally (.700); the combined 14 conference wins over the last two seasons are the most through any two year period in program history. He also headed the NJCU women's soccer program for one season in 2003-04.
In 2017 under Richens, the Peacocks earned two wins and a tie over playoff qualifying teams (Iona, Hartwick [Sun Belt Conference], and tied with Bucknell [Patriot League]) and earned a tie against Big East foe Seton Hall. The teams 4-0 blowout win over Iona at home was the programs largest margin of victory since the 2014 season. Richens also had rookie-sensation forward Jordan Jowers earn All-MAAC Second team and All-Rookie team honors.
The team led the MAAC in saves and saves per game in 2016 and Richens led Saint Peter's to a team-best seven wins with him at the helm in 2015, while the Peacocks also advanced to the MAAC Tournament that year. Richens has coached two All-MAAC first-team selection, six All-MAAC second-team honorees and two All-Rookie team selections in his tenure at Saint Peter's.
He came to Saint Peters after serving as a mens assistant coach at Rider for four seasons.
Since coming to the United States in 1999, Richens has been a Regional Manager for Noga ProExcel, a national coaching company. He also directed Champions World Camps with AC Milan and served as head coach for New Jersey City Universitys womens team during the 2003 season.
Richens owns and operates Players Edge Soccer, a coaching education company based in Central NJ. A noted youth coach with boys and girls teams and in the last four years his teams have won a National Championship, three State Cups and appeared in seven State Finals. Three of his teams have been national ranked top 15 teams.
Richens earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Sports Science in 1998 from Brunel University in England. He is licensed by the USSF, NSCAA and UEFA.
Assistant Coach
New Jersey Tech
Division 1
Uy joined the NJIT mens soccer staff as an assistant coach in April 2016, having most recently served as an assistant coach at Adelphi University, which made its first appearance in the NCAA Division II Tournament in 2015.
The Adelphi Panthers finished with a 13-5-3 overall mark and received a third seed in the East Region of the NCAA Division II mens soccer tournament.
A 2011 graduate of Fairfield University with a degree in sociology and currently pursuing his maters in sports management at Adelphi, Uy served as an assistant under new NJIT head coach Fernando Barboto at Iona College from August 2014 to January 2015. In 2014, Iona finished 10-7-3 and advanced to the semifinals of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) tournament.
A four-year player for Fairfield, which also competes in the MAAC, Uy was selected Fairfield Freshman Athlete of the Year in 2007. In 2008, Uy was named to the All-MAAC second-team and All-Tournament team, as the Stags captured the MAAC title and an automatic bid to the NCAA Division I tournament. Matt received athletic recognition on the All-MAAC first-team in 2009 and 2010 and NSCAA/adidas All-Region team in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
In 2008, Uy was invited to the u20 national team camp, followed by a tournament in Mexico hosted by Chivas Guadalajara and spent time with second division club FK SIAD MOST in Czech Republic.
After graduation, Uy continued his playing career professionally in Asia, playing for the top division in the Philippines, where he earned 10 international caps with the u23 mens national team. With the u23 mens national team, Uy participated in the Asia Cup Qualifiers, World Cup 2018 Playoff Qualifier and Suzuki Cup.
He played for Global FC (2012-2013) and Loyola Meralco Sparks (2013) of the United Football League.
The Long Island native attended high school at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida (2006-2007) after being selected for the 2007 US Residency Program, where he earned over 40 caps with the u17 national team.
He played in the National Championship game as a member of the u20 New York Red Bulls and appeared in the final four with the 2011 Long Island Rough Riders PDL.
Uy holds NSCAA National diploma and USSF C coaching licenses.
Assistant Coach
Northeastern
Division 1
Stefan played 4 years of college soccer at Dartmouth before transitioning to the USL. In the USL he played for two years with the Wilmington Hammerheads and most recently with the Rochester Rhinos. He has made over 50 appearances in the USL, earning team of the week honors twice.
Throughout Stefan's playing career he has also worked with the Wilmington Hammerheads youth teams as well as their Sports Science program. Most recently he spent a year as an assistant coach with the University of Rochester helping them to an elite 8 appearance. Along the way the staff was also voted UAA coaching staff of the year.
Stefan is beginning his sixth season with Northeastern University after helping them to a second place finish in the CAA and a top for RPI finish in 2021
Assistant Coach
Lehigh
Division 1
Assistant mens soccer coach at Albright College 2012-2014
Assistant womens soccer coach at Albright College 2012-2016
Head mens soccer coach at Albright College 2015-2019
Assistant coach at Reading United PDL 2018-2019
Director of soccer operations at Lehigh University Feb. 2019-June 2019
Assistant Coach at Lehigh June 2019-present
Head Coach Club CTSA Fusion 2015-present
Head Coach Club LVU 04 Blue 2019-present
Assistant Coach
La Salle
Division 1
Evan Prybutok joined the La Salle men's soccer program as an assistant coach in May of 2018.
"Evan is a tireless recruiter who has a keen eye for talent that will fit our program well," head coach Rob Irvine said. "We're very excited to get Evan on board to build upon the hard work of former assistant Bobby Wilkinson and current assistant [Travis Cantrell](http://goexplorers.com/staff.aspxstaff=351)."
Prybutok spent the previous two seasons as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Manhattan College, where he helped the Japsers finish one win shy of tying the program record for wins in a season in 2017. Prybutok worked with Manhattan's goalkeepers, helping to mold Marcellin Gohier into the 2017 MAAC Goalkeeper of the Year.
Prybutok was also responsible for opposition scouting, performance and video analysis, budgeting and team travel at Manhattan.
"I'm extremely excited to join the La Salle soccer family and come back home to Philadelphia," said Prybutok. "I'm excited to begin working with Rob and our student-athletes to continue to build upon the success of the program."
Prybutok, who is also a staff coach at Players Development Academy (PDA) in New Jersey, spent five seasons at Temple prior to his tenure at Manhattan. He was an integral part of the American Conference Coaching Staff of the Year in 2013 and helped the Owls bring in two nationally-ranked recruiting classes.
He also worked with Temple's goalkeepers, helping to develop Dan Scheck into one of the top goalies in the nation in 2013. The senior finished that season with a 0.67 goals-against average and nine shutouts.
Prybutok started the men's soccer program at Otero Junior College (Colo.) in 2010. Otero finished 16-3-2 in the inaugural season en route to winning NJCAA Region IX and the NJCAA West District Championships. Additionally, Prybutok led Otero to a berth in the 2010 NJCAA National Finals and was named the 2010 West District Coach of the Year.
Prybutok got his start in coaching as a volunteer assistant coach at Rutgers in 2009 while also serving on the Maine Olympic Coaching staff.
A nationally licensed coach, Prybutok holds his USSFB License and NSCAA Premier Diploma. He played collegiately at the University of Massachusetts and graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science in management before earning a Master's in Education from Temple in 2014.
Assistant Coach
Colgate
Division 1
Ricky Brown '17 was named to the assistant coach position in March 2018.
I am thrilled that Ricky has decided to return to Colgate and be a part of my staff, Ronning said. As a student athlete, he embodied the values Colgate Soccer holds dear both on and off the field. This will carry over as an assistant coach helping this program continue to raise the standard in every aspect.
Brown helped guide Colgate to its third consecutive Patriot League Tournament title in his first season in 2018. The Raiders under Browns guidance became the first Patriot League team to win three straight titles, and they advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament after upsetting No. 22 New Hampshire in the first round.
Colgate in 2018 tied the program record for wins in a season with 13, finishing 13-5-5 overall and 5-2-2 in conference play. Primarily working with goalkeepers, Brown helped guide Colgate to the top of the national ranks in several major defensive categories. The Raiders ranked eighth in shutouts (10), 16th in goals-against average (0.699), 18th in save percentage (0.809), and 19th in shutout percentage (0.478).
Brown was Colgates four-year starting goalkeeper from 2013-17. He finished his career tied for third in program history in career shutouts with 17 clean sheets and helped guide the Raiders to a 2016 Patriot League Tournament Championship and NCAA Tournament appearance and a 2015 regular-season championship. Brown started in 73 games throughout his prolific four-year career, compiling 32 wins, a 0.736 save percentage and 1.32 GAA.
As a senior in 2016, Brown tallied a league-best eight shutouts and was named to the Patriot League All-Tournament team after guiding the Raiders to their sixth-ever Patriot League Championship and NCAA Tournament appearance. The Laguna Hills, Calif. native made 18 saves throughout Colgates Patriot League Tournament run before stopping two of six penalty kick attempts in the championship game to secure Colgates league title.
He earned third team All-Patriot League nods as a junior after finishing the season with a 0.97 goals against average and .800 save percentage. Brown compiled 118 saves during his first two years as Colgates starting keeper as a freshman and sophomore.
Brown graduated from Colgate in May 2017 with a bachelors degree in philosophy. He spent the summer of 2017 as a member of the U23 Nashville SC that competes in the Premier Development League. While in Nashville, Brown also served as a volunteer coach at Lipscomb University and a Goalkeeper Coach at CPS Soccer Academy and Nashville Soccer Academy.
Assistant Coach
George Mason
Division 1
Noel Orozco was hired as the men's soccer director of operations in the summer of 2019. He spent the 2018 season as a volunteer assistant coach at Houston Baptist.
Orozco helped Houston Baptist post a 5-8-3 (3-6-1 WAC) record last season. The Huskies placed a program-best seven individuals on the all-conference team. He also oversaw video analysis and scouting reports.
Prior to Houston Baptist, Orozco was an assistant coach at Franklin College in 2017. He worked specifically with the goalkeepers and served as the programs liaison with the academic department and recruiting.
Orozco played at St. Bonaventure from 2015-16, playing in 36 matches (33 starts) with one assist. He played at Oklahoma Baptist for two seasons before transferring to St. Bonaventure.
The Houston, Texas, native earned his degree in political science from St. Bonaventure in May of 2017.
Assistant Coach
Belmont
Division 1
Jordan Grant is entering his second season as assistant coach at Belmont, as head coach David Costa announced the addition of Grant to the Bruin staff on July 19, 2019.
In his first season at Belmont, the Bruins finished with a 5-12-2 (1-4-1 SoCon) record and the program's first-ever SoCon Championship semifinal appearance. Belmont shutout its opponents by a combined score of 6-0 in the first two rounds of the tournament before falling in overtime to UNC Greensboro in the semifinal.
Grant, a decorated collegiate player and well-respected in the college and club scenes, came to Belmont after spending the previous two-plus seasons as director of operations at the University of Cincinnati.
Assistant Coach
North Florida
Division 1
Jacob Weinshank joined the North Florida men's soccer staff as a volunteer coach in Summer 2018 while also serving as a staff coach at Jacksonville Armada FC. Weinshank was promoted to assistant coach at North Florida in the Spring of 2019.
Weinshank comes to UNF after serving as a college assistant men's soccer coach at Maine Maritime Academy in 2017-18. He also worked as a Head Coach and Assistant Director at Seacoast United Maine. Additionally, Weinshank was the Head Coach of the University of Maine Men's Club Soccer team (2016-17) and the Director of the Soccer Program for Camp Skylemar in Naples, Maine from 2013-15.
A 2015 graduate of Salve Regina University with a bachelor's degree in sociology and anthropology, Weinshank was a four-year starter on the men's soccer team. Weinshanks brace in the 2012 conference final helped lead Salve Regina to the 2012 NCAA DIII Tournament and earned him the Offensive Player of the Tournament in the 2012 Commonwealth Coast Conference playoffs. He garnered the Commonwealth Coast Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year award (2014) and was selected a NSCAA All-East Region Scholar.
Weinshank graduated with a Masters degree from the University of Maine in 2017. He holds the United States Soccer Federation National C License.
Associate Head Coach
Air Force
Division 1
Doyle has spent 7 seasons as a member of the Air Force Academy Soccer staff. During his collegiate career, Doyle was a premier goalkeeper at Creighton and was named Defensive Player of the Year for the Missouri Valley Conference.
Head Coach
Connecticut College
Division 3
Reuben Burk comes to Connecticut College after spending one year at Newberry College, two years at the College of the Holy Cross, and two years at Alfred University.
At Newberry, Burk was the recruiting coordinator and had the main responsibility of overseeing the recruiting process for all prospective student-athletes, both internationally and domestically. Burk helped establish one of Newberry's most diverse recruiting classes for 2018 by helping get commitments from Brazil, Italy, North Carolina, South Carolina and Maryland. He also coordinated recruiting trips to Iceland, Norway, and Spain.
At Holy Cross, Burk helped with a variety of duties including daily coaching, recruiting nationally, scouting, helping plan offseason schedules, game day preparations, travel coordination, community service, and helping run summer camps and clinics.
Burk also served as the assistant coach at Alfred University. The team reached the Empire 8 semifinals in 2014, which marked the program's first conference tournament appearance in nine years. Burk was also part of a group which earned the 2014 Empire 8 Coaching Staff Award.
As a player, Burk was a four-year student-athlete at Hobart College. Under Head Coach Shawn Griffin, in both 2009 and 2011, Hobart finished in the top 25 Division III national rankings and made appearances in the NCAA Division III National Tournament. In 2009, Burk helped Hobart win the Liberty League conference championship.
Burk graduated from Hobart in 2013 with a bachelor's degree in anthropology/sociology and religious studies. He then got his master's in business administration from Alfred University in 2015. Burk holds a USSF C License as well as a NSCAA Advanced National Diploma.
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Head Coach
New York University
Division 3
Kim Wyant has completed five seasons as head coach of the New York University men's soccer program and her teams have compiled a 43-40-10 overall record.
In each of the past four seasons, Wyants teams have qualified for postseason play. In 2019, the Violets reached the second round of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championship Tournament, defeating Hood College before falling 1-0 to host Muhlenberg College. NYU finished the campaign with an 8-8-2 overall record and a 3-3-1 mark in the University Athletic Association (UAA). The Violets produced a season-high six-game winning streak, which culminated with a 1-0 UAA victory over Washington University in St. Louis on October 18.
Several of Wyants players flourished during the season, with a pair (Sergio Monton, Pablo Vargas) earning First Team All-UAA honors and another duo (Luca Mancuso, Louis Meeks) receiving Honorable Mention. Monton was also tabbed UAA Offensive Player of the Year, First Team All-ECAC and United Soccer Coaches (USC) Third Team All-East Region.
The Violets also succeeded in the classroom as 13 Violets earned UAA Fall Sport All-Academic honors. Monton received USC Scholar All-East Region Second Team accolades and Pedro Goldberg earned the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Student-Athlete Award.
Currently the only female head coach of an NCAA mens soccer team, Wyant served as an assistant coach of the NYU womens team for four years before taking over the mens program.
In 2018, the Violets finished with a 12-4-3 overall record and earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, the first appearance for NYU since 2010. The Violets advanced to the second round by defeating Haverford College 5-4 in penalty kicks after a 110-minute, 1-1 deadlock. Wyants squad was eliminated after losing to host Montclair State University also in penalty kicks (5-4) after a 1-1 tie.
The Violets posted a 3-3-1 UAA record in 2018, the teams best performance since going 4-0-3 in 2010. Six team members earned All-UAA honors (First Team: Vargas, Grant Engel; Second Team: Meeks; Honorable Mention: Monton, Maxi Rodriguez; Rookie of the Year: Oliver Kleban). Rodriguez earned UAA honors for the second consecutive season, following former captain Petter Aasa, who also earned the honor twice under Wyants direction. Engel, a senior goalkeeper and first-time recipient, allowed a league-low four goals in UAA play.
Head Coach
Skidmore
Division 3
Jeremiah Kneeland enters his 13th season as a head coach and seventh at the helm of the Skidmore men's soccer program in 2019.
Kneeland has guided the Thoroughbreds through one of its most successful runs in program history, compiling a record of 54-35-19 while reaching the Liberty League Championship game three times in five years. In the 2015 season, the team broke into the Top 25 at No. 22; something that had not been done in nearly a decade. He repeated the success in 2017 as the Thoroughbreds rode a 4-0-2 start to a No. 22 United Soccer Coaches ranking.
In his first season at the helm, Kneeland led the Thoroughbreds to an overall record of 12-6-2 and an appearance in the Liberty League championship game for the first time since 2006.
Kneeland compiled a 58-45-7 record at Elmira. The 2009 Empire 8 Conference Coach of the Year, his teams have been to four consecutive Empire 8 tournament semifinals, including a championship appearance in 2011. The 2012 team tied a program record with 13 wins.
In 12 seasons, he has coached 34 all-conference players, nine NSCAA All-Region players and three NSCAA Scholar All-Region student-athletes. Additionally, he coached two NSCAA All-Americans, Adam Beek in 2014 and Adabare Oyeniyi in 2016. On Sept. 15, 2017 against 23rd-ranked Union, Kneeland won his 100th career match as head coach. He sports a 103-74-23 overall record heading into the 2018 season.
A 2005 graduate of Elmira, Kneeland was a three-year starter for the Soaring Eagles, earning all-conference honors twice and serving as team captain his junior and senior years. He received his Master of Science degree from Elmira in 2011.
Kneeland is a member of the United States Soccer Federation and holds his Advanced National Diploma from the NSCAA. He also holds NSCAA regional, and national goalkeeping diplomas.
Assistant Coach
Haverford
Division 3
Glodi Konga joined the Haverford College mens soccer coaching staff in the spring of 2019. He comes to Haverford after spending the previous two seasons as the head coach at the University of Valley Forge, leading the Patriots to the American College Athletic Association Tournament and coaching four all-conference players.
Konga was a two-year member of the Division I Liberty Flames soccer program. He obtained his bachelors degree in exercise science from Liberty in 2015 and went on to receive his masters from Liberty in sports management the following year. While at Liberty, Konga served as a Graduate Assistant in the sport management program assisting in sport communication, history of sport, and sport coaching classes. He developed a primary focus in applied leadership theories and is currently pursuing a PhD in Sports Leadership from Concordia University and is expected to graduate from that program in 2021.
Prior to attending Liberty, Konga played one year at nearby Cairn University where he started all 17 matches for the Highlanders and recorded two assists. Konga was also a member of the Cloud County Community College soccer team that won the 2011 NJCAA National Championship. The Thunderbirds finished the season with a 22-1-3 record with 17 shutouts.
In addition to his coaching experience at Valley Forge, Konga has an additional decade of coaching experience, previously serving as an assistant soccer coach for the Buxmont Torch FC (NPSL), the Director of Coaching at Germantown Soccer Club in Philadelphia, and working for Arsenal in the Community of England. He holds a UEFA coaching license and has worked with Athletes In Action and Ambassadors Football on international soccer missions overseas on several occasions.
Assistant Coach
Denison
Division 3
Kyle Basil will begin his first season as an assistant coach at Denison in 2019. Basil comes to Denison with 8 years coaching experience at the college, club, and high school level. A 2010 graduate of the University of Dayton, Basil was a four year player for the Flyers. He was a part of 2 Atlantic 10 championships and one NCAA tournament appearance. Basil's previous coaching roles include volunteer assistant roles at the University of Southern California (2010) and the University of Dayton (2012). He then coached with the boys program at Groveport Madison High School from 2014-2016. Basil currently coaches with Pride Soccer Club in Canal Winchester and is a part of the Ohio South ODP State staff. He holds a USSF C License and the United Soccer Coaches Premier Diploma.
Assistant Coach
Cal Tech
Division 3
Assistant Coach
Southern Connecticut State
Division 2
I am currently an assistant coach as Southern Connecticut State University. I have coached at the youth level for roughly 10 years starting when I was a student at SCSU. I also coach two youth teams for Beachside Soccer Club of Connecticut 09 and 04 boys.
Assistant Coach
New Haven
Division 2
Assistant Coach
Bridgeport
Division 2
A meticulous and dedicated soccer coach who seeks to increase team
functioning by increasing individual and group performance. Possess
analytical coaching skills based on technical, tactical, physical and
psychological development. Operates with a desire to succeed
personally and as part of an effective team in an environment which
is constantly challenging and evolving.
Assistant coach
St. Joseph (CT)
Division 3
-Assistant Men's soccer coach at University of Saint Joseph's. (3rd year)
-Specializes in goalkeeping
-Helped guide the institution's 1st men's soccer team to an 20-11-3 record over their first 2 seasons
Assistant Coach
Western Connecticut State
Division 3
I began coaching at Western Connecticut State University in the fall 2017 as the assistant men's coach. My main role is the on field coach where I coach a majority of the practices and help with game day management.
I currently have my Uefa B license as well as my USSF D license. Alside coaching at westconn, I am the Technical Director of Connecticut Rush Soccer Club and also the College Advisory Program Director.
I have been coaching in the USA since 2011 and also played soccer at American International College which is a D2 program based in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Head Coach
American Int'l
Division 2
UEFA A licensed Coach Perry enters his second season as head coach of the mens soccer team in 2016. In his first year at the helm the team struggled to find it's stride finishing 4-8-5 and missing the playoffs. Perry secured his first victory as a head coach during a 1-0 double-overtime win against Mercy College on a goal from freshman Alejandro Alvarez in the 103rd minute. Perry coached three All-Conference selections during his first season as head coach.
Perry spent two seasons under former head coach Fred Balbino as a graduate assistant coach. With Perry patrolling the sidelines, the Yellow Jackets amassed a record of 15-17-3 and earned a trip to the Northeast-10 postseason in 2014.
After finishing his Youth Team Scholarship at a professional soccer club in England, Perry joined Lees McRae College in 2009 making a significant impact during their 2009 National Runner-Up season. During his two years in North Carolina, Perry was a regular starter tallying seven goals and 21 assists.
While at Lees McRae, he was a Conference Carolina All-Conference first team selection in 2010, third team selection in 2009 and Freshman of the Year.
After transferring to neighboring Northeast-10 program, Southern Connecticut State University, Perry was a captain and regular starter before graduating in 2013.
Perry has played the last three summers in the Professional Development League before most recently playing for Western Mass Professional Soccer Club in the American Soccer League.
Luke Perry
Head Coach
Luke Perry enters his second season as head coach of the mens soccer team in 2016. In his first year at the helm the team struggled to find it's stride finishing 4-8-5 and missing the playoffs. Perry secured his first victory as a head coach during a 1-0 double-overtime win against Mercy College on a goal from freshman Alejandro Alvarez in the 103rd minute. Perry coached three All-Conference selections during his first season as head coach.
Perry spent two seasons under former head coach Fred Balbino as a graduate assistant coach. With Perry patrolling the sidelines, the Yellow Jackets amassed a record of 15-17-3 and earned a trip to the Northeast-10 postseason in 2014.
After finishing his Youth Team Scholarship at a professional soccer club in England, Perry joined Lees McRae College in 2009 making a significant impact during their 2009 National Runner-Up season. During his two years in North Carolina, Perry was a regular starter tallying seven goals and 21 assists.
While at Lees McRae, he was a Conference Carolina All-Conference first team selection in 2010, third team selection in 2009 and Freshman of the Year.
After transferring to neighboring Northeast-10 program, Southern Connecticut State University, Perry was a captain and regular starter before graduating in 2013.
Perry has played the last three summers in the Professional Development League before most recently playing for Western Mass Professional Soccer Club in the American Soccer League.
Head Coach
Western New England
Division 3
O'Neill, who is a West Springfield native, has been named to lead the men's soccer program at Western New England University, it was announced on March 5, 2015, by Western New England athletics director Dr. Michael Theulen. O'Neill comes to the Golden Bears after serving on the Minutemen's coaching staff for the past three seasons, including as interim coach last fall and as an assistant during the 2012 and '13 seasons under the late Sam Koch.
"I am so excited to be the next mens soccer Coach at Western New England," O'Neill, who will begin his duties on Monday the 9th, said. "I feel very fortunate for this opportunity and want to thank Dr. Theulen, (Senior Associate Director of Athletics) Joe Sassi, (Assistant Athletic Director/Business Manager) Jody Lemoi and the entire search committee for selecting me. During the search process, I was so impressed with the positive energy in the department and I look forward to working closely with my new colleagues.
"We will evaluate our progress in three areas including academic achievement, strong citizenship including impacting our local community, and athletic success. The Commonwealth Coast Conference is outstanding in the sport of mens soccer and will provide a great challenge as we pursue future CCC championships.
"I am excited to meet the entire team and begin our work together in the non-traditional season. I also am looking forward to continuing the recruiting efforts begun by coaches Sullivan and Tim Larocca (an assistant who served as the head coach on an interim basis during the search process) as we look to secure the recruiting class of 2015," said O'Neill.
O'Neill, who will be entering his 22nd year as a college coach in 2015 with the Golden Bears, has a 95-104-22 NCAA head coaching record over 12 seasons that includes previous stops at Division I East Carolina University (1999-2002) and Division III Gettysburg College (2003-09).
"We are extremely pleased to have Devin joining our Athletic Family," stated Theulen, who noted he received 120 applications. "His coaching resume speaks for itself. We were all very impressed by his background, his knowledge, and, in particular, his energy. Devin will be a great fit as we transition into a new era of Western New England University Men's Soccer."
O'Neill, 45, graduated from Middlebury College in 1991 and received his master's degree from Springfield College in 1993.
He came to UMass following a two-year stint at Bradley University in which the Braves participated in the NCAA Tournament each season. At Bradley, O'Neill helped the D-I Braves to a pair of NCAA appearances in 2010 and 2011, marking the first time in the program's history to make back-to-back trips to the national tournament. In his two seasons in Peoria, the Braves posted a 26-15-5 record with 15 wins in 2011 for the second-most wins in program history.
O'Neill returned to his home state of Massachusetts after spending time in the collegiate ranks as both a head coach and an assistant coach. Prior to joining Bradley as an assistant coach in 2010, O'Neill was the head coach at Gettysburg for seven seasons and at East Carolina for four more. He started his coaching career in 1994 at Lafayette College before moving on to Fresno State (1996-97) and Ohio State (1997-99).
At Gettysburg, he compiled a 68-46-18 overall record, including a 38-25-8 mark, and two runner-up finishes in the highly-competitive Centennial Conference. He coached 27 all-conference and nine NSCAA All-East Region players during his Bullets tenure. In his final three years with the ECU Pirates, O'Neill led the team to its best three-year winning percentage in the program's history and produced ECU's first-ever Major League Soccer and US National Team player in Clyde Simms.
As an assistant coach at Lafayette, O'Neill helped the Leopards to consecutive Patriot League titles in 1994 and 1995. He then moved on to Fresno State where the Bulldogs won the Western Athletic Conference crown and reached the NCAA Quarterfinals in 1996. Before beginning his head coaching career, O'Neill also spent two years as an assistant at Ohio State from 1997-98 and helped the Buckeyes to a runner-up finish in the 1998 Big Ten Conference Tournament.
A three-sport athlete at Middlebury, O'Neill captained both the soccer and ski teams and also played golf. He earned NSCAA All-New England Region honors on the soccer pitch as a senior in 1990 and he was a two-time (1989-90) All-American skier.
O'Neill replaces Erin Sullivan who resigned in January to take the men's soccer post at Williams College, his alma mater. "Erin Sullivan did a wonderful job during his tenure as head coach and he has left the program in great shape. I will work hard to build upon his excellent work and strive to continue the programs record of success."
The Golden Bears' storied program has produced an all-time record of 473-359-75 (.563) since its founding in 1966, five Commonwealth Coast Conference championships since entering the league in 2007, eight NCAA Division III tournament appearances, four Division III All-America citations from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, 27 trips to postseason play and scores of all-conference, -region honorees.
O'Neill and his wife, Mimi, are the proud parents of three children: daughter Brooke (16) and sons Sean (14), Shay (10). The family makes their home in Belchertown.
Assistant Coach
Nichols (MA)
Division 3
Alex Suprise begins his first season as an assistant coach with the men's soccer program in 2018.
"Alex is going to be a great addition to the coaching staff," said Traina, who has guided the Bison to the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) playoffs in each of the last 10 seasons, winning a pair of championships (2010, 2014). "He comes from a family of coaches. His father, Scott, coaches at perennial Top 25 school University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, while his brother, Philip, is an assistant coach at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. Alex was a superior defender in college and brings a fresh face to work with our defense."
A native of Milwaukee, Wis., Suprise comes to Dudley following a four-year playing career as a defender at Virginia Wesleyan. He appeared in 54 matches (38 starts). The Marlins posted a combined 36-24-12 mark during Suprises time in Virginia. He graduated in May after majoring in both business and recreation and leisure studies.
I am extremely proud and excited to be a part of the Nichols College community and the mens soccer program, said Suprise. I would like to thank coach Traina for bringing me to Nichols to begin my collegiate coaching career. I am eager to help build on the programs prominent history and tradition. I cant wait for the season to start!
During his time at Virginia Wesleyan, Suprise was a staff coach for the Marlins Soccer Academy Summer Camps (2014-17) and also worked the programs ID Camp (2016-18).
Suprise cut his teeth coaching for the Milwaukee Wave as a summer camp instructor (2013-15) working with kids ages 5-11. He was also a summer camp director for the parks and recreation department in Franklin, Wis. (2015), where he created a curriculum for coaches to follow, as well as the Croatian Eagles Soccer Club (2012-17) and Milwaukee Urban Soccer Collaborative (2014-17). Suprise was the summer speed and agility director, and personal trainer for the Eagles.
Assistant Coach
John Jay
Division 3
Ridi Dauti is in his third year as head coach of the men's soccer team. He was previously an assistant coach during the 2016 season. In his first season as a head coach Ridi Dauti guided the men's soccer program to the CUNY conference final and ECAC post-season play for the first time in program history. Ridi Dauti was voted Coach of the Year for his achievement leading the bloodhounds in the best season in program history.
Outside of John Jay, Dauti also coaches for the New York Cosmos Academy. He is the head coach of the U13 team that competes in the United Soccer Federation Development Academy league, the highest level of youth soccer in the country. He is also the head coach of New York Athletic Club, a high level amateur team comprised of mostly Division I, II, and NAIA players and former professional players. The team competes in the NPSL league, a semi-professional league (4th tier of US soccer), and has coached against many full professional teams including the prestigious NY Cosmos 1st team.
Previously, Dauti has been the head coach of the World Class FC U14 academy team, Assistant Coaching Director for Asphalt Green Soccer Club, and Soccer Program Coordinator at Downtown United Soccer Club.
He graduated magma cum laude from SUNY Cortland with a Bachelor of Science in Coaching. During this time, he studied abroad in Germany at the German Sports University of Cologne and was heavily involved with the academy of current Bundesliga club FC Koln.
Dauti holds a US Soccer B Coaching License and an NSCAA Director of Coaching Diploma.
Assistant Coach (second Email)
Felician
Division 2
Alpian, a Jersey City resident and Queens, N.Y., native, enters his fifth year with the Golden Falcons as an assistant coach specializing in goalkeeper development and junior college recruitment.
Since 2013, Alpian has been the Director of NPSL Operations for the Brooklyn Italians Soccer Club, for which he previously has directed youth goalkeeping. He currently serves on the NPSL Technical Committee, and possesses an Advanced National Diploma and a Level I Goalkeeping Diploma from the NSCAA and a "D" License from U.S. Soccer.
Alpian was a four-year member of the men's soccer team at Division-I Hofstra University and later played for the New York Freedoms of the USL as well as working in the front office for the club. He earned a BBA in marketing from Hofstra in 1999, and is pursuing an MS in sports management from Southern New Hampshire University.
Assistant Coach
Rhode Island College
Division 3
Recently hired as assistant coach at RIC
Previously GK coach at Franklin Pierce for 2 seasons
Coached u13 + gks for GPS Fortis FC
Staff Coach at NEFC
Assistant Coach
Brooklyn
Division 3
Promoted as Brooklyn College's Head Men's Soccer Coach during the Summer of 2016, Joseph Andre enters his second season at the helm of the BC Men's Soccer program.
In 2016, André helped lead the Bulldogs to a 7-10-2 record including a CUNYAC Championships appearance. The mark also included a 1-1 tie against the eventual conference champ. BC finished with a 4-2-2 conference record heading into the postseason. André would coach the 2016 CUNYAC Player of the Year in senior forward Valentyn Kharko as well as a First Team CUNYAC All-Star.
Assistant Coach
Anna Maria
Division 3
I am currently the Assistant Mens Soccer coach at Anna Maria College starting the Fall of 2018. Prior to that I coached for FCUSA in south eastern Mass, mainly out of the Plymouth/Kingston area starting in January of 2018 to the summer. I worked with many of the age groups during my time there from 2010s to 2004s.
Originally from Hunmanby in the northeast of England, I played for the u19 and reserve sides for Scarborough athletic who are currently in the 7th tier of English Soccer. I came to the US to play college soccer; first at NCAA Division II Ohio Valley University in West Virginia for two years. Then following that I transferred to Tabor College an NAIA school in Kansas. I played as a center midfielder mainly, my senior year I was both captain of the team and received ALL-KCAC Honors postseason.
I recently graduated in December of 2017 from Tabor with a degree in Sports Management, I am studying towards my Masters in Business Administration while coaching at Anna Maria College.
I currently hold the FA level 1 coaching badge, the USSF F license and the USSF Grassroots course both in person and online. I am hoping to continue my coaching education by taking the USSF D license in the spring of 2019.
Assistant Coach
Rutgers-Newark
Division 3
Portillo knows head coach Kevin Easts system as well as anyone after earning four letters under the Scarlet Raiders mentor at New Jersey City University (2003-06). He joined the Raider coaching staff in 2010 and has helped the team to its first NCAA D-III tournament berth, its first trip to the NJAC Championship match and an ECAC Metro title. An All-Hudson County and all-state soccer player at Dickinson High School in Jersey City, Portillo earned a bachelor of science in criminal justice from New Jersey City in 2007. He was named the Hudson County Coach of the Year in boys soccer after leading Dickinson to its first state title before joining the Raider staff. He holds teaching certification in world language and general content education.
Assistant Coach
Staten Island
Division 3
Antonio Meza was named the College of Staten Island Men's Soccer Assistant/Goalkeeper coach in August 2016.
His experiences centers around the sport of soccer for about 30 years. A native of Chile where he spent time in the youth and professional systems before moving to Japan as a Technical Director. Working in United Stated since 2002, Antonio extended his coaching carrier being part of the prestige NY Red Bulls Academy coaching staff for 11 years, working with talented professional prospects around the tristate area. Many of them graduated to either the, collegiate DI, DII DIII level as also the professional and national team level.
Before joining the Dolphins, Meza was named the Director of Coaching for the NJCSA, (New Jersey Cedar Stars Academy), member of the US Soccer Development Academy System, a position he held from 2012 until 2016. In this role he oversaw the whole academy soccer operation.
Kean
Division 3
Assistant Coach
Regis (MA)
Division 3
Renato Rosas, assistant coach. I originally grew up and played in Florida. Traveled to Massachusetts to play soccer at Regis College in Weston, MA.
I am now coaching and looking to help players and families learn about process of playing soccer in college. I spent 2 years coaching at the DIII level in Massachusetts at Regis college along with a year of coaching at Seacoast United Kings in Framingham. I have my United Soccer Coaches Nationals Diploma and am pursuing my USSF D license.
Assistant Coach
Hartwick
Division 3
Brandon Raynor begins his sixth season on staff at Hartwick in the Fall of 2023, recently being elevated to Associate Head Coach on August 1st. Raynor arrived at Wick after serving as an assistant men's soccer coach at his alma mater, Kings College, in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
In his four seasons with the Monarchs, he helped the program to an overall record of 51-23-7, with a Freedom Conference title and NCAA Tournament appearance in 2014. Raynor aided in planning for practices and competitions, scouting reports, on-field training, recruiting, and he served as the teams goalkeeper coach.
In addition to his experience at Kings, Raynor has also served as coach of Back Mountain Youth Soccer Association Fury 2000 Club since 2014.
During his playing career at Kings, Raynor was both a goalkeeper and field player during the 2010-2013 seasons. In three years as a goalkeeper, he played over 1,000 minutes with a goals against average of 0.72 with 79 saves. After transitioning to the field in his junior season, he helped the Monarchs to the 2013 Freedom Conference title and the first NCAA appearance in their history.
Raynor earned a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from Kings in 2014. He earned a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in Excellence in Teaching in 2017. Raynor also was the goalkeeping assistant for the USL 2 side, Albany Rush in summer of '23.
Assistant Coach
Colby-Sawyer NH
Division 3
First year as the mens assistant at Colby-Sawyer college. Prior to joining the staff at Colby-Sawyer coached the varsity soccer team at a local high school.
Assistant Coach
Arcadia
Division 3
Arcadia University Assistant Coach
Former Captain and Player at Arcadia
Coached Club for 5 years with USYF Futsal and Millstone Club Soccer
Head Coach
Wilkes
Division 3
Head Men's Soccer Coach at Wilkes University going into his 4th year.
Assistant Coach
Misericordia
Division 3
Rob Brandell is entering his second season as the Assistant Men's Soccer Coach at Misericordia University. In 2018, the Cougars returned to the MAC Freedom Conference tournament after a 1 year hiatus. 5 athletes received All-Mac Freedom honors for their performances on the field, and 20 student-athletes were selected to the MAC Freedom Honor Roll for carrying a 3.2 GPA or higher. While at Misericordia, Brandell is pursuing a Masters of Science in Organizational Management with a concentration in Human Resource Management. Outside of Misericordia, he is a board member of the Back Mountain Youth Soccer Association, serving as the U12 Boys and Girls Coordinator.
Brandell received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Environmental Studies from Misericordia University in 2017. From 2013-2017, the Saints won 3 Liberty League Championships and appeared in 4 consecutive NCAA tournaments, including Sweet 16 runs in 2013 and 2015. He was an All-Liberty League selection as a defender/midfielder in 2014, 2016, and 2017. In 2014, Brandell was honored by the NSCAA and ECAC as a 1st-Team All-East Region Midfielder and 1st-Team Upstate All-Star, respectively.
Assistant Coach
Goucher
Division 3
Andrew Mpasiakos enters his second season as an assistant coach for the men's soccer program in 2018, starting his position in January.
Mpasiakos comes to Goucher from Virginia Wesleyan, where he earned his bachelor's degree in International Studies (with a concentration in Business) in May of 2017.
While at Virginia Wesleyan, Mpasiakos earned four letters in soccer, earning a spot on the ODAC All-Academic Team all four years throughout the course of his career. In 2013, Mpasiakos helped Virginia Wesleyan win the ODAC Championships, as the Marlins advanced on to the NCAA Tournament.
A native of Monroe, New York, Mpasiakos has already held several positions in the soccer world. In the Summers of 2015 and 2016, he worked for the New York Red Bulls' Youth Training Division, while during his time at Virginia Wesleyan, he served as a youth coach with several organizations and assisted in youth camps throughout the community.
In June 2017, Mpasiakos was hired as a head coach and trainer for Cedar Stars Academy-Hudson Valley, while he also served as a full-time program manager at the Capelli Sport Center in Florida, New York.
Mpasiakos holds his USC Premier Diploma and USSF National C License.
At Goucher, Mpasiakos is pursuing a Masters Degree in Education with a specialization in Athletic Administration and Leadership.
Assistant Coach
Chatham
Division 3
McKersie completed his college soccer career in the fall of 2018 as part of Allegheny College's men's soccer team where he served as a two-year captain and was a 2nd team All-NCAC selection in 2018. He was also named the team defensive MVP in 2017 and 2018 At Allegheny, McKersie received a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and is working on his Masters at Chatham alongside coaching.
EXACT
NCAA
As part of our COVID-19 safety plan, the indoor sessions traditionally held on the first day of camp will be shared online.
Sessions will be accessible for the week prior to camp. They are available on-demand and can be completed at the athlete's
convenience.
This approach allows us to continue offering these valuable sessions so athletes arrive to camp ready to maximize the experience,
while still maintaining a safe experience.
EXACT partners with college coaches to prioritize premium training for athletes.
In addition to the showcase games, all field players participate in training sessions designed and led by college coaches
Each session includes a tactical overview to discuss concepts in attacking, defending, and transition
In addition for an opportunity for players to showcase themselves in a training environment, players get to see what it is like to play for different college coaches at camp
A Goalkeeper Showcase- all attending college coaches will watch you 'live' PLUS GK showcase is digitally streamed to 100+ NCAA coaches around the country
Multiple private position-specific training sessions with a team of college coaches
A keeper-specific session on the recruiting process to cover unique aspects of the position
Live-action in tournament gameplay, observed by all college coaches
Add a professionally filmed and edited video to your camp experience
Highlights are captured during workouts at camp and edited to show you at your best
Your video will be edited after camp and delivered on a personalized Highlight Video webpage
Add a video package to your experience from your Camp Dashboard (after registration)
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Player
EXACT Sports Camp is a key component to being recruited as an athlete. The camp provides you with an opportunity to meet, interact, and train with college coaches from different schools around the nation from different levels. EXACT Sports provides you with insights into improving your chance of being seen and recruited by college coaches. It was one of the best decisions I made in my recruiting process.
Player
I had an amazing experience at EXACT Camp. I enjoyed the opportunity to talk face-to-face with so many coaches from around the country. I also enjoyed the opportunity to train with new coaches. I am looking forward to visiting coaches that I met at their schools and getting to take a closer look at their programs. It was also cool to meet so many fellow athletes from other places and make new friends. Thank you so much for everything!! Thank you!!!
Player
This was a wonderful opportunity to meet coaches and other players in a completely different format. There is a chance to show individual skills that may not be seen in a regular soccer tournament environment. The interaction with coaches is outstanding and I really feel that I was able to get exposure from EXACT that I would not have anywhere else. Thanks for a great session and options to see so many coaches. I can't wait to see where this opportunity leads me!
Player
I was surprised to see so many coaches, and having them available to talk to. I wish I would have known about EXACT Sports Elite Camp my junior year. I left feeling like I had personal attention from coaches, and got a better grip on how to navigate the college sports recruitment process.
Great experience meeting coaches, and having the discussion panel with coaches and parents. The games were fun and challenging, which I really enjoyed. Thanks EXACT!
Parent
The numerous pieces of advice for student athletes was really good. This camp was a confidence builder for my son, and also empowering. Thanks for a well organized and educational camp.
Parent
I brought my son to this camp not really knowing what to expect and was concerned about how young he was for the camp, since it appears designed around high school level players. I was surprised by the in-depth amount of information that EXACT provided us regarding how to prepare for the college recruitment process. Without a doubt, we would have missed out on the opportunity to know how the process works and the information you provided was insightful and we have confidence moving forward as our son moves into high school and college beyond.
Great job and we look forward to attending more EXACT camps, as well as introduce my younger son to the camps when the time is right. Thank you!
Parent
I attended the camp with my son. The information that the EXACT personnel provided was excellent. We are now much more informed regarding the college recruiting and scholarship qualification's. The coaches that mentored the boys were also very knowledgeable, devoted, and fun. The rating that was provided after the camp was very helpful to help guide my son with his future training. The camp helped to boost my son's confidence and love for the game. I cannot say enough about the camp. You guys are the best ! Thanks for your efforts!
Player
This is the first ID Camp that I have attended and it was a positive experience in every way. The camp was very well organized leading up to the camp with very informative emails and preparation work for the camp. On the day of the camp, registration was well organized and the EXACT team was there to help for every step of the way. Chris was an excellent leader and motivated me from the very beginning. It was amazing to be exposed to real college coaches and to be coached both on and off the field. Getting feedback on the day was very rewarding. I am looking forward to attending EXACT Soccer Academic 50 ID Camp in June/July.
Learn why EXACT Sports is the most trusted and top-rated training camp
Largest college coaching staff of any organization -- camp, tournament or club (bringing in 1000 amazing college coaches every year)!
Hugely successful supporters of high school athletes -- 70.2% of participants have gone on to play NCAA or NAIA college athletics.
Only training camp organization that has received funding from the NCAA.
Official behavioral training partner of US Soccer.
The only camp staff that has expertise in developing athletes from high school to college to pro (we also work with over 60 pro teams).
The only exposure organization that blends the 4 pillars of development through our mental training expertise (EXACT is funded by the National Institutes of Health).
This is a sample schedule. Registered athletes will receive a final schedule prior to camp.
Overview
Residential (Optional)
Athletes Traveling Alone
If You Drive
If You Fly
EXACT's goal is to provide every participant a great camp experience. We know that starts with your travel arrangements. We accommodate a variety of travel options so you can pick what works best for your family, whether that is driving or flying, athlete traveling alone or with a parent, or opting into our residential option or booking your own lodging. Select from the options below for more information.
Traveling far to get to EXACT? Campers have the option to participate in the residential, overnight program. Typically, 20-40% of campers participate in this optional program. Those interested in lodging can add on during registration. Campers stay in EXACT-supervised accommodations with 1-3 fellow participating players. Friendship requests can be made to [email protected]. Included in the EXACT residency option are two nights lodging, dinners, breakfasts and shuttle between the camp game fields and the overnight accommodations (plus all the fun you can handle!)
In addition to a GPS location, we provide specific directions to all participants in pre-camp materials so you know exactly where to go and when to be there!
The following airport options are most convenient for the event location:
KLGA - La Guardia Airport: About 84 miles from facility.
KJFK - John F Kennedy International Airport: About 87 miles from facility.
KEWR - Newark Liberty International Airport: About 104 miles from facility.
If family member(s) would like to stay at our recommended hotel, we often organize a discounted rate. Family members are welcome to observe & participate at camp. We have a few sessions designed for family participation including the parent workshop and the recruiting panel However, it is totally optional -- only person that should be there is the athlete!
Players are welcome to travel to the EXACT camp without an accompanying family member. Players have the option to take our airport transit from the recommended airports listed above. This transit will take the athlete from airport to camp (and back to airport after camp ends). Try to book your flight to arrive at airport by 11am and departing flight after 8pm. If you need take earlier/later flights, just let us know -- we always accommodate!
In accordance with NCAA rules, EXACT camps are open to any and all that would like to attend, but may limit attendance based on several factors, such as age, number and grade level. Camp attendance at EXACT is never restricted by a camper's skill level or competitive experience.
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