College Soccer News annually recognizes assistant coaches across the country who excel at their trade.  This year we selected twenty for recognition.  The selections include some who have been honored in the past as well as some not  previously recognized.  There are many excellent assistant coaches in the collegiate ranks who have a tremendous impact on college soccer programs throughout the United States.   In making the selections we know that we are going to leave off some very deserving assistant coaches as is always the case when individuals are singled out for recognition.    However, as in the past, we are confident that  the twenty selected are deserving and worthy of recognition.   The background of the coaches selected varies and each brings different things to the game but all inspire the players they coach to become something greater than they could have become by themselves.     

 

Many of the assistant coaches that College Soccer News has recognized in past years are now head coaches.  Assistant coaches honored in the past who are now head coaches include Mike Freitag at Indiana, Kevin Grimes at California, Cameron Rast at Santa Clara, Bill Irwin at Portland,  Jeff Rohrman at Wisconsin, Darren Powell at Elon, Robert McCourt at Monmouth, Jesse Cormier at Vermont,  Mike Jacobs at Evansville, Brent Erwin at UCF, Kelly Findley at Butler, Leo Chappel at Columbia, Erik Ronning at  Colgate, Brian Wiese at  Georgetown, and Brad Agoos at Seattle University.