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In his ninth season leading the Amherst College men’s soccer team, head coach Justin Serpone directed the Purple & White to a phenomenal and historical season that culminated in the program’s first-ever national title.

Guiding his team to an 18-1-2 record (9-0-1 NESCAC), Serpone was named the 2015 NSCAA, D3soccer.com, and HeroSports.com Division III Coach of the Year. The 18 wins for Amherst in 2015 ties the program’s high watermark for victories as Serpone’s 2013 squad also finished that season with an 18-1-2 ledger.

Since taking the reins in 2007, Serpone has amassed a superb 138-17-24 overall record which includes four NESCAC championships (2008, 2011, 2012, 2013); nine appearances in the NCAA Division III Championship tournament; eight Sweet 16 berths; four Elite 8 appearances; a pair of Final Fours; and the program’s first national championship in 2015.

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In 15 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 12 of his 15 years on College Hill, three Patriot League championships and three NCAA Tournament berths. His overall record entering his 16th season at Lafayette is 132-92-55 with a 46-44-23 mark in Patriot League play and a 68-28-22 tally at Oaks Stadium.

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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.

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Sam Matteson is in his first season as an assistant men’s soccer coach at the College of the Holy Cross in 2020-21.

Prior to joining the Crusaders, Matteson spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Bryant. He helped the Bulldogs to a runner-up finish in the Northeast Conference in 2018, with the team advancing to the NEC semifinals in 2019.

In addition to his collegiate coaching experience, Matteson is the USL Director for the Boston Bolts, coaching at the ECNL and Academy levels.

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Jonathan Hood 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 and NCAA Tournament appearance, the 2019 SCAC Regular Season Championship title, as well as earning 2019 SCAC Coaching Staff of the Year honors.

Among his duties included organizing, developing and implementing practice plans, recruiting and coordinating game strategies with the head coach. Hood also worked for the Rush Pikes Peak Soccer Club in 2018, serving as the head boys club coach for U15 and U17 teams.

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Ken Bovell enters his eighth season as the head coach of MIT men’s soccer in 2022. MIT finished 2015, his first season, with a record of 18-3-1 (7-0-0 NEWMAC), broke 11 team records and advanced to the third round of the NCAA Division III men’s soccer tournament for the first time since 2003. It was also the first time in program history that the Engineers hosted the NCAA Tournament as MIT defeated Bridgewater State 5-1 and Bowdoin 1-0 to advance to the Sweet 16.

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Noah Riskind ’16 of Bethesda, Md., is the interim head coach for the Bates men’s soccer team.

He returned to Bates in 2020 as an assistant coach after working as a teacher for the previous 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.

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Andrew Schaefer begins his fourth year on staff with the Wheaton College men’s soccer program as a full-time Assistant Coach. The Allentown, Pennsylvania native comes to Norton after serving as Assistant Coach for two seasons at his Alma Mater, Randolph-Macon College. Schaefer has helped lead the Lyons to a 21-13-1 record during his time in Norton. Wheaton finished the 2021 season ranked number five in the final Regional Rankings. Schaefer has primarily worked with the offense, which scored 2.29 goals per game and had nine players with at least three goals.

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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 2020 men’s soccer season will be the sixth for Toshack, who led the Saints to Liberty League regular season and tournament titles in 2015 and 2018. 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, Toshack was named Liberty League Coach of the Year.

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Greg Cumpstone has been added to the Wesleyan men’s soccer program as an assistant coach in 2021. Cumpstone grew up in Killingworth, Connecticut and attended Haddam-Killingworth High School before starring for Hofstra University for four years.

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In the spring 2021 season he helped coach six all-conference selections including the Co-Defensive Player of the Year, five all-region, an All-American and a Scholar All-American. He was part of the staff that led the Leopards to a 6-0 undefeated regular season, and helped Lafayette make the program’s 13^th championship appearance in the 31 years of the Patriot League Tournament. The Leopards also found themselves breaking into the United Soccer Coaches Top-25 poll.

During the 2019 season Robinson helped lead the Leopards to a record of 9-7-5 with an appearance in the Patriot League championship game. During its run to the championship, Lafayette compiled 10 shutouts on the season, finishing ranked 17^th nationally in shutout percentage (0.476) and 31^st nationally in team goals against average (0.941). .

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Johnson joins the Lafayette Men’s Soccer program in the spring of 2021.

A native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he comes to College Hill after serving as an assistant coach for multiple men’s soccer programs. Prior to his arrival, Johnson served as an assistant and goalkeeper coach for Pennsylvania State University – Harrisburg men’s soccer program in 2019. During his tenure, PSU Harrisburg captured its first North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) Championship and appeared in the NCAA Division III Soccer Championship Tournament for the first time in program history. He also assisted in setting a new single-season win record, with 15 wins, and coached goalkeeper, Nick Guglielmetti who led NCAA Division III goalkeepers in total shutouts for the year.

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Coach Huffman looks forward to his third season at Amherst in 2019 — his 17th overall in collegiate soccer. This will be Huffman’s third season as men’s goalkeeper coach and second as the women’s.

After the 2018 season, both the men and women Amherst goalkeepers received post season accolades. Freshman Bernie White was tabbed by New England Soccer Journal as one of the top three D3 freshman goalkeepers in all of New England, while sophomore women’s goalkeeper Antonia Tammaro was named Second Team All NESCAC. In total, Huffman has seen 11 different goalkeepers receive individual post season accolades/accomplishments on his teams in 16 seasons of collegiate soccer.

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Amherst College men’s soccer coach Justin Serpone recently announced the hiring of Alex Ortega as assistant coach of men’s soccer.

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.

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