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[Kuiper]

https://gobatesbobcats.com/news/2024/2/19/ben-brewster-named-head-mens-soccer-coach-at-bates.aspx

LEWISTON, Maine -- Bates College Director of Athletics Jason Fein announced Monday the appointment of University of Massachusetts Amherst associate head coach Ben Brewster as the 11th head men's soccer coach in the program's 62-year history.

    "We are delighted to welcome Ben Brewster to the Bobcat family as Bates' next head men's soccer coach," Fein said. "Ben's experience as a successful student-athlete in the NESCAC, as well as his impressive soccer acumen and his ability to inspire and lead, makes him the perfect person to take Bates men's soccer into the future."

    "I would like to thank Jason Fein, Celine Cunningham and the entire search committee for providing me with the opportunity to lead the Bates Men's Soccer program," said Brewster. "I look forward to working with the student-athletes on this team as we prepare for the 2024 season in the competitive NESCAC conference. Our goal will be to develop a culture in which we compete each day with enthusiasm and energy, while supporting each other on and off the field."

    Brewster recently wrapped up his seventh season with the Minutemen, joining head coach Fran O'Leary's staff prior to the 2017 campaign. He was promoted to associate head coach in 2019 after playing under O'Leary for three seasons at Bowdoin College (2010-13) during his four-year collegiate career.

[LibbyMoore]

New coach for Norwich in VT

https://norwichathletics.com/news/2023/12/21/mens-soccer-robert-emmett-lead-middlebury-assistant-tabbed-as-new-norwich-head-coach.aspx

[Kuiper]

York College has posted a job listing for a new head men's soccer coach

https://ncaamarket.ncaa.org/jobs/19781673/head-men-s-soccer-coach

The former coach, Evan Scheffey, was named head coach of men's soccer at Elizabethtown on Feb. 9, replacing long-time head coach Skip Roderick, who retired after the end of the season after coaching at Etown for almost 40 years.

https://etownbluejays.com/news/2024/2/9/scheffey-named-elizabethtown-college-head-mens-soccer-coach.aspx

https://news.etown.edu/index.php/2023/11/10/elizabethtown-college-mens-soccer-coach-skip-roderick-announces-retirement/#:~:text=Elizabethtown%20College%20men's%20soccer%20head,right%20time%2C%E2%80%9D%20Roderick%20said.

[Kuiper]

Colby has hired Greg Cumpstone from Wesleyan, where he was associate head coach, to be its new head coach.

https://colbyathletics.com/news/2024/2/23/Cumpstone_release.aspx

After a successful career as a leader in the net and two-time captain at Hofstra University, Cumpstone played multiple seasons at the professional levels (CFC Azul Professional Development League and Ferencváros Torna Club) before turning his attention to coaching. He quickly elevated through the ranks in the premier Connecticut Rush program, from staff coach to technical director to Staff director of coaching, while also guiding Daniel Hand High School (Madison, Conn.) to multiple State Championships. After consistent success at the junior level, Cumpstone matriculated to the college ranks with his most recent post serving as associate head coach at Wesleyan University.  During this time, the Cardinals consistently competed in the NESCAC championships and rose to a top-10 national ranking during the 2022-23 season.
 
"I am so proud and excited to have Coach Cumpstone as our new leader of the men's soccer program," said Mike Wisecup, Colby College Vice President and Harold Alfond Director of Athletics.  "His soccer acumen and compelling vision for our program's identity impressed me throughout the selection process, and I am confident he is the right coach to take our program to the heights of success I know we are capable of."

[Kuiper]

Ursinus College announced that Head Men's Soccer Coach Daniel Clitnovici has stepped down to take the Head Women's Soccer Coach job at Texas A&M Corpus Christi.

A return to coaching women's soccer for Clitnovici, who has spent most of his coaching career in the women's game on the pro and college levels, and to the DI level.

[westroadsf]

Kuiper -- Any word/hints on hires for open NWC HC spots at Willamette and Univ Puget Sound?

[Kuiper]

Kuiper -- Any word/hints on hires for open NWC HC spots at Willamette and Univ Puget Sound?

I haven't heard anything about either job,  but there is this article from the student newspaper explaining why Willamette's Adelman left.  I wouldn't be surprised to see him pop up in a Boston area school, at least as an assistant.

This end of Adelman's chapter at Willamette is taking him to new, uncertain and exciting pastures. His fiancée, Whitney Pitalo, has been coaching women's college soccer for several years after playing Pac-12 soccer at the University of Southern California and has been offered the job to coach as an assistant for the women's team at Boston College. Boston competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference, which is widely regarded as the cream of the crop for Division I women's soccer, so the two will be moving.

Moving away from the people that he has made great relationships with here over the past few years is hard for Adelman. "Leaving this chapter and closing this was one of the hardest things that I have done. I don't know what's next for me but I am looking and interviewing and things have been progressing." He and Pitalo will be getting married at the end of the year.

Neither the Willamette nor Puget Sound job listings on the NCAA site are still active, but that doesn't necessarily mean they were filled.

https://ncaamarket.ncaa.org/jobs/19649861/head-coach-men-s-soccer

https://ncaamarket.ncaa.org/jobs/19641746/head-men-s-soccer-coach

The Puget Sound job remains open on other sites though

https://academiccareers.com/job/98410/head-men-s-soccer-coach/

[Ron Boerger]

Wash U brings former D1 assistant Andrew Bordelon (U of Wisconsin last two years after five years at NIU) on as head coach.  Prior to that, he held D3 HC positions at Stevenson (for less than a year) and Westminster MO (for three). 

Always interesting when someone that made the D3 to D1 hop returns - and even though WashU is a great place to be a D3 coach, you have to wonder about how long he sticks around should he have success, even ignoring how many times he's made career moves already.   This is basically his fifth job in a decade.

[Kuiper]

Rochester hires alum Ben Cross, currently an assistant coach for MLS side FC Dallas, as head coach

https://x.com/fcdallas/status/1767204733649870996?s=46&t=uXiupHZfR0TxrRyWF9BmRg

Pretty strong hire for UR, at least on paper.  Not much college experience, though, although he was a grad asst at UR and an asst at Nazareth at the beginning of his coaching career

Here's the UR story

https://uofrathletics.com/news/2024/3/11/mens-soccer-ur-alumnus-ben-cross-named-next-mens-soccer-coach.aspx

[Kuiper]

This happened a long time ago, but it escaped my attention.

Kevin Moon, a Whitworth soccer alum and former assistant coach for both the men and women's teams on four separate occasions, was promoted from interim to head coach at Whitworth.

https://whitworthpirates.com/news/2023/12/7/mens-soccer-moon-elevated-to-full-time-head-coach.aspx

His team went 12-4-4 and finished second in the Northwest conference.

[westroadsf]

Steve Mohn is named new head soccer coach at University of Puget Sound.

https://loggerathletics.com/news/2024/3/15/general-steve-mohn-to-serve-as-head-mens-soccer-coach-this-fall.aspx#:~:text=Mohn%20replaces%20Reece%20Olney%20as,of%208%2D5%2D5.

[Kuiper]

Steve Mohn is named new head soccer coach at University of Puget Sound.

https://loggerathletics.com/news/2024/3/15/general-steve-mohn-to-serve-as-head-mens-soccer-coach-this-fall.aspx#:~:text=Mohn%20replaces%20Reece%20Olney%20as,of%208%2D5%2D5.

Is Steve Mohn still playing with the Tacoma Stars indoor (MASL) team?  That's what the press release suggests.  The seasons sort of align, but still kind of hard to imagine with the added recruiting responsibilities given that they likely need to recruit nationally too.

In any event, nice local hire for Puget Sound. 

[Kuiper]

Just to keep the basic news/information in one place, here is the W&L announcement that Mike Singleton is leaving W&L and will become head women's soccer coach at Goucher

https://generalssports.com/news/2024/3/19/singleton-resigns-mens-soccer-post.aspx

[westroadsf]

Steve Mohn is named new head soccer coach at University of Puget Sound.

https://loggerathletics.com/news/2024/3/15/general-steve-mohn-to-serve-as-head-mens-soccer-coach-this-fall.aspx#:~:text=Mohn%20replaces%20Reece%20Olney%20as,of%208%2D5%2D5.

Is Steve Mohn still playing with the Tacoma Stars indoor (MASL) team?  That's what the press release suggests.  The seasons sort of align, but still kind of hard to imagine with the added recruiting responsibilities given that they likely need to recruit nationally too.

In any event, nice local hire for Puget Sound. 

He's not on the Tacoma Stars roster so must be something from his past.

[Kuiper]

(Cross-posted from the Go WEST thread)

Willamette hired Matt Corti-Young as its new head soccer coach

https://www.wubearcats.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/releases/202403192ikdl0

This is a big time get for Willamette.  Corti-Young was an assistant coach at DI UC San Diego for the last few years, but before that was head coach at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, where he was West region coach of the year in 2019 when he led CMS to the NCAA tournament.  He also did a great job as head coach at Knox college before that, taking a team that was 1-16 the year before he was hired and improving them to 15-4 within two years, winning their first conference title in 26 years and being named conference coach of the year.  He started his coaching career as an assistant at Amherst in the NESCAC, so he really has National DIII experience.