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Justin Serpone
Head Coach
Justin Serpone returns to the sideline for his 16th season in 2023. Currently, Serpone sits as the second winningest coach (by percentage) of any active coach in NCAA history, regardless of division (.833).
Serpone served as the assistant men’s soccer coach at Duke University in 2006, helping to lead the Blue Devils to an 18-4-1 record, the ACC regular season and tournament championships, and a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Prior to Duke he worked as a head assistant coach at Lafayette College (2001-03) and Northwestern University (2003-06), notably helping the Wildcats compile a record of 31-20-10 after they were a combined 9-42-4 from 2001-2003.
Serpone has completed five graduate degrees. He is currently enrolled in two more Master’s Degree programs.
Amherst College
Dennis Bohn
Head Coach
In 23 seasons under the guidance of Dennis Bohn, the Lafayette men’s soccer program has produced nothing but winning teams. Bohn has led the Leopards to winning seasons in 15 of his 23 years on College Hill, three Patriot League championships and three NCAA Tournament berths. His overall record entering his 23rd season at Lafayette is 180-144-74. His overall Patriot League record is 80-75-36.
Lafayette garnered its third Patriot League Championship under Bohn in 2012 after the Leopards defeated American in the Patriot League Championship Game to earn an automatic bid in the NCAA Tournament and a meeting with Virginia in the first round. A late goal by the Cavaliers ended Lafayette’s championship year at 9-8-4, and also marked the first goal the Leopards surrendered to an opponent in 553:47 of game action, a streak the Leopards carried through the end of the regular season and into the NCAA Tournament
Lafayette College
Brian Bouhl
Assistant Coach
Brian Bouhl joined the Hoyas in 2018 as the volunteer assistant coach and he helped lead the Hoyas to the NCAA Championship in 2019. Bouhl assists in all aspects of the program, with primary responsibility on coaching the Hoya goalkeepers and managing the sport science program.
In 2019, the Hoyas had a historic run winning the national championship with a 3-3 victory over Virginia that was decided in penalty kicks, 7-6. GU finished the year with a mark of 20-1-3 which set the program record for wins in a season. Georgetown also boasted the program’s first three-peat, winning the BIG EAST Championship for the third-consecutive year in a 3-1 victory over Providence College at Shaw Field. It was just the second time in program history that the squad has won both the regular season and the championship in the same year.
Georgetown University
Lamarr Peters
Assistant Coach
Coach Peters joined the Cornell Men’s Soccer staff in 2023. Previously, Peters was the Assistant Men’s Soccer Coach at SUNY Cortland.
From 2007-11, Peters was the head coach of the girls varsity soccer team at Lansing High. He led the team to five league and division titles, four sectional championships and two regional finals.
As a player, Peters was a three-year starter at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., helping lead the team to three NCAA Div. II playoff berths including an appearance in the national championship game in 1994. Following college, Peters competed professionally for the Michigan Bucks, Eastern Shore Sharks, Detroit Rockers and Windsor Borderstars.
Cornell University
D’Shone DeGannes
Assistant Coach
D’Shon DeGannes was hired as the Operations Coordinator for Brown men’s soccer in September of 2023.
DeGannes arrived at Brown following a two-year stint as a professional soccer player in the National Independent Soccer Association with the Michigan Stars and Savannah Clovers.
Prior to his professional career, DeGannes played three seasons at Fairleigh Dickinson University where he helped the team to two NEC tournament championships and a regular season title. DeGannes spent his freshman season at the University at Albany where the team won the America East championship.
DeGannes graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson in 2022 with a degree in business administration.
Brown University
Ben Brewster
Head Coach
Bates College Director of Athletics Jason Fein announced 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.
Bates College
Travis Wall
Head Coach
No stranger to central Ohio or the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC), Travis Wall was hired as head coach of the Kenyon College men’s soccer program in July of 2023.
Wall made an immediate impact in his first season at the helm for the Owls, as he and his coaching staff were recognized as the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Coaching Staff of the Year. Kenyon players also took home the league’s three top individual awards, winning Offensive Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, and Midfielder of the Year, while seven Owls earned All-NCAC honors. Overall, Kenyon posted a 16-4-1 record that included a flawless 8-0-0 mark in NCAC play. The program won its eighth straight regular-season NCAC Championship in 2023, and the Owls advanced to the NCAC Tournament Championship match before earning a 10th straight NCAA Tournament berth, where they won a first-round game. At the end of Wall’s first season, Kenyon was ranked No. 19 in the national standings.
Wall, the former 2011 National Player of the Year at Ohio Wesleyan and native of Columbus, Ohio, took command of the Owls after serving four seasons as head coach at St. Olaf College, an NCAA Division III institution in Northfield, Minnesota.
Kenyon College
Andrew Storton
Assistant Coach
Andrew Storton completed his sixth season as an assistant men’s soccer coach at Connecticut College in 2024. He assists head coach Reuben Burk with all aspects of the program.
Storton was an integral part of the most successful season in school history, as the Camels went 19-4-1 and captured the 2021 NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer National Championship. After securing an overtime victory against Washington & Lee in the semifinals, Conn College prevailed over Amherst in penalty kicks in the title game. It marked the institution’s first team national championship in any sport.
A native of Oxford, England, Storton brings 12 years of coaching experience and has been heavily involved with coaching soccer at various levels in Southeast Connecticut since his arrival in the country in 2009. On the scholastic level, he served as the head boys soccer coach at Bacon Academy in Colchester and led the program to a 100-30-13 overall ledger in seven seasons between 2012 and 2018.
Connecticut College
Jonathan Hood
Head Coach
Jonathan Hood, PhD was named the head coach of the Vassar men’s soccer program in the Spring of 2022. He previously served four years as the assistant coach for men’s soccer at Colorado College. During his tenure with the Tigers, he helped guide the squad to an NCAA Tournament appearance, the 2019 SCAC Regular Season Championship title, as well as earning 2019 SCAC Coaching Staff of the Year honors.
Through two seasons in Poughkeepsie, Hood has led Vassar to a 17-9-11 overall recrod, a 9-3-6 mark against conference rivals, two appearances in the Liberty League Championship, an NCAA Tournament berth, advacing to the Second Round in 2022.
In 2023, Hood led the Brewers to their sixth straight appearance in the Liberty League Championship. Individually, Hood mentored six All-Liberty League honorees in 2023, inlcuding Player of the Year Owen Fauth. Under Hood’s tutelege in 2023, Fauth went on to be named First Team All-Region III by teh United Soccer Coaches as well as a Third Team All-American.
Vassar College
Mike Toshak
Head Coach
A former Saints assistant coach who has had an outstanding career as an assistant in professional soccer, Mike Toshack was named the fourth head coach in program history in July 2015, relieving former head coach Bob Durocher, who was promoted to Director of Athletics and Recreation in May 2015.
The 2022 men’s soccer season was the eighth for Toshack, who led the Saints to Liberty League Championship in, 2022, and 2021, and to regular season and tournament titles in 2015, 2018, and 2022. In 2015, St. Lawrence finished that year with a 16-4-2 record and advanced as far as the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament. In 2018, and 2022 Toshack was named Liberty League Coach of the Year.
St. Lawrence University
Jeff Huffman
Assistant Coach
Assistant Coach Jeff Huffman enters his sixth season at Amherst in 2023. This will be Huffman’s sixths season as men’s goalkeeper coach and fifth in the same role for the women’s team. In total, Huffman has seen 13 different goalkeepers on his teams receive individual postseason accolades in 18 seasons of collegiate soccer.
It was a special 2021 season for Huffman. The men’s side advanced to the national title game as his goalkeepers combined on the season for the most shutouts (15) and lowest goals against average (0.41) in all of Division III men’s soccer. Additionally, Kofi Hope-Gund was named to the NCAA All-Tournament Team. On the women’s side, Mika Fisher was named the United Soccer Coaches First Team All-America goalie in her debut collegiate season.
Amherst College
Alex Ortega
Assistant Coach
Alex Ortega completed his second season as Assistant Coach at Amherst College in 2023. In his two seasons with the program, Amherst amassed a 31-4-10 record while winning two NESCAC Championship titles.
Ortega comes from Randolph Macon College, where worked as an assistant coach since prior to the 2019 season. The Yellow Jackets were 24-15-3 in his time. In 2021 RMC went 5-1-3 in conference play, its least league losses in one season since 1999.
Prior to his time with Randolph Macon, Ortega spent one season at Clark University. During his tenure with the Cougars, the team led the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) for goals, assists and points. Clark’s 3.06 goals-per-game were a Top 15 mark in the nation.
Amherst College