Coaching Carousel

[SaintsgoMarching]

Andrew Bednarsky was my assistant coach when I was the head coach at Heidelberg for a short time.  I can tell you that he is a class act all the way around and will make a fantastic head coach at whichever university is lucky enough to hire him.  Bednarsky for President!!!!

[blue_jays]

UChicago is in the market for a new coach, as Pat Flinn took the head job at Drake
https://athletics.uchicago.edu/sports/msoc/2021-22/releases/20220105lew9ss

[College Soccer Observer]

Not a total shock as he was part of the DI world at Loyola before moving to U of C for his first collegiate head coaching job.  He is ready for that step in his career.  U of C should be a job that attracts a good candidate pool.

[Striker22]

https://bantamsports.com/news/2022/1/28/trinity-college-hires-methembe-ndlovu-as-head-mens-soccer-coach.aspx?fbclid=IwAR2XqvfCqoWcdzQUlSpfjQG0P4og8TUEAihFnyR2m8skzqSC2XTHNru90xQ

[fishercats]

After the abbreviated Dave Brandt era, looks like Hope College has gone with an alum and local guy. New to the college ranks.

https://www.hollandsentinel.com/story/sports/2022/02/01/john-conlon-hired-hope-college-mens-soccer-coach/9303511002/

[Gregory Sager]

Steve Domin is out at Carthage. His ouster was very quiet ... not a peep was heard from the Carthage sports information department or the Kenosha media.

Word is that the school is working feverishly to fill his shoes ASAP. Whoever gets the job is going to be inheriting a very talented young team.

[Kuiper]

Ryan Fahey has stepped down as head coach at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps to accept a position as Associate Head Coach at UConn (D1), which reunites him with Chris Gbandi, with whom he served on the staff at Dartmouth several years ago.  He only had recently arrived at C-M-S and really just got one year because of the pandemic, but his team was great and his staff won SCIAC coaching staff of the year.  I thought he would stay longer given that he was an alum, but he may have preferred to return to DI after coming to C-M-S from Notre Dame.

This should be an attractive position for someone.

https://www.cmsathletics.org/sports/msoc/2021-22/releases/20220123s3es76

[Gregory Sager]

Wheaton (IL) has a new coach, Steve McCrath. He comes straight from the D2 ranks -- Barry University, to be precise -- where his Buccaneers won the D2 national title in 2018 and were national runners-up in 2000, making eight trips to the D2 national tournament in all during his 23 years there.

Those are impressive credentials earned at the scholarship level. The question is: Can he succeed in a situation in which he has no scholies to hand out? All of his experience is at the D2 level: Seattle Pacific (where he played for his dad, Wheaton alumnus Cliff McCrath, and later served as his dad's assistant coach) and Barry.

[GiveMeLiberty]

Liberty League update

Union College has a new coach. Long term coach Jeff Guinn stepped down last fall.
Coach Brown is a product of the Southampton FC youth system. He was most recently at Bucknell as the Interim Head Coach.

https://unionathletics.com/news/2022/2/8/matt-brown-named-union-head-mens-soccer-coach.aspx

[VASoccer11]

Saw this on twitter the other day:

https://www.suseagulls.com/sports/msoc/2021-22/releases/20220214mftc74

Good move for him but had no idea Salisbury was open. Didn't they just hire last year? Anyone know what happened?

[VAFury]

Ohhh..  They poached Shenandoah! 

[Gregory Sager]

Carthage has followed the lead of CCIW rival Wheaton by hiring a former D1 head coach. He's Paul Leese, who had a nice run as the head coach of UT-Rio Grande Valley. He was even named coach of the year in the WAC in 2018, although he left UTRGV for undisclosed reasons over a year ago and spent last season as an assistant coach at the minor-league pro level with New Mexico United.

[NoSuchThingAsOffsides]

https://athletics.hope.edu/sports/msoc/2022-23/releases/20220411jmggrt

Hope is open again as John Conlon steps down before coaching a season.

[PlaySimple]

Julianne Sitch Named UChicago Head Men's Soccer Coach

https://athletics.uchicago.edu/sports/msoc/2021-22/releases/20220420iqfa4p

Some may not like it but she's a great hire and has a lot of familiarity with how things are in Hyde Park. She did a great job as an AC for with women Maroons and is a great recruiter. When Chicago plays NYU during league play there will be two women HCs facing each other. I'll bet that hasn't happened before.

[Kuiper]

Julianne Sitch Named UChicago Head Men's Soccer Coach

https://athletics.uchicago.edu/sports/msoc/2021-22/releases/20220420iqfa4p

Some may not like it but she's a great hire and has a lot of familiarity with how things are in Hyde Park. She did a great job as an AC for with women Maroons and is a great recruiter. When Chicago plays NYU during league play there will be two women HCs facing each other. I'll bet that hasn't happened before.

Other than perhaps not having the same pipeline to youth coaches on the boys side as she might have on the girls side, I can't see what's not to like.  A pro coach in a Tier I pro league who has domestic and international pro experience as a player, youth national team experience, experience coaching at both D1 and DIII, longstanding local connections, AND who has experience serving as a recruiting coordinator on the coaching staff on the women's team at the same university, which is hugely important in understanding the uniquely intellectual school and its fearsome admissions standards, is pretty much a home run.