At least 101 people applied to become the University of Wisconsin men's soccer coach.
The list released by UW doesn't include candidates who requested confidentiality but were not finalists for the job. Indiana assistant Todd Yeagley was named the Badgers' coach on Thursday.
Among the more interesting candidates: Northern Illinois coach Steve Simmons; UW-Green Bay's Tom Poitras; former Houston women's coach Bill Solberg, a Brookfield native; George Washington assistant Bryan Davis, a former UW player; Messiah College's David Brandt, whose team won the NCAA Division III national championship earlier this month; former West Virginia coach Mike Seabolt; Steve Trittschuh, a former U.S. national team player and assistant coach for Major League Soccer's Colorado Rapids; UC Irvine assistant Kurt Schmid, the son of reigning MLS Coach of the Year Sigi Schmid; and Luka Kostic, the coach of Iceland's Under-21 national team.
Here's the list, with some brief information on most applicants. UW released only names; information on background was found via Internet searches and wasn't available for all candidates. College positions are in men's soccer programs unless listed otherwise.
Jorge Aguilar
Abbas Al Jarrah
Sinisa Angelovski (Mequon Soccer Club coach, former pro player in Europe)
Chris Apple (Rochester coach, former interim Notre Dame coach)
Claudio Arias (Texas A&M International coach)
Rob Becerra (Stanford assistant, former University of Redlands coach)
Chris Behler (San Jose State assistant)
Scott Berman
R.J. Bevers (Albany assistant)
Andy Biggs (University of New England coach)
Erik Biscoe (New York Red Bulls youth trainer)
Pedro Blanco
Chad Bodnar (Walla Walla Community College coach, former UW-Green Bay player)
William Boyle (Olivet, Mich., coach)
David Brandt (Messiah College coach, NCAA Division III national champion this season)
Cristian Brei
Paul Broome (Loyola Marymount volunteer assistant)
Evan Brosniak (Raritan Valley, N.J., Community College coach)
Kevin Burk (Lipscomb assistant, former Milwaukee Wave and Wave United player)
Peter Caceres (Odyssey Soccer Club coach, Keller, Texas)
Evan Camperell (MiraCosta College, Calif., coach)
Michael Carney
Chris Chamides (Cal State L.A. women's coach, former MLS assistant and front office)
Joshua Clark
Jim Cofer (Central Florida assistant)
Elvis Comrie (Holy Cross coach, former NASL and U.S. national team player)
Moussa Dagnogo (FC Pride coach, Indianapolis; former pro player in Europe)
Helio D'Anna (Lincoln Memorial University men's and women's coach, Tenn.)
Bryan Davis (George Washington assistant, former UW player)
Ralf Diez
Theophilus Egbele (West Virginia team manager, West Virginia United club coach)
Peter Fewing (former Seattle University coach)
Evan Fiffles (Lewis coach)
Andrew Fleming
Miguel Garcia
David Goldstein
Bryan Green (West Virginia assistant)
Tim Grove (McMurry men's and women's coach, Texas)
Orlando Hadzic (Team Chicago Soccer club coach, former pro player)
Nik Haigh
John Harris
Michael Hatfield (Michigan-Dearborn men's and women's coach)
Eric Hess (Muskego High School coach)
Jason Higgins (Holy Cross assistant, former SMU assistant)
Ricardo Iribarren (former USL coach, former pro player in South America and MLS)
Chris Karwoski (former Western Michigan coach, former pro player)
Constantine Konstin (former Cal assistant, former U.S. national futsal team assistant)
Luka Kostic (Iceland Under-21 national team coach)
Dmitry Kuznetsov
Errol Lovell (Peachtree City Lazers club coach)
Alex Ludwig (former Hungarian Under-18 national team coach, former pro player)
Juan Carlos Magro Oliva
Kevin Mahlan
Mark Mallon (former California coach, former Rutgers and Yale assistant)
Paul McDonough (Connecticut assistant)
Mathes Mennell (Loyola Marymouth associate head coach)
Nahum Mingol
Kalman Menyhart
Adel Mohsen (Atlanta Fire club coach)
David Moliner
David Murray
Dean Nichols (Framingham State coach)
Matthew Okoh (Delaware State women's coach, former pro player in Europe and MLS)
Devin O'Neill (Gettysburg coach, former Ohio State assistant)
Bo Oshoniyi (South Florida assistant, former MLS goalkeeper)
Giuseppe Pennetti
Tom Poitras (UW-Green Bay coach)
Michael Rabasca (Desert Vista High School, Ariz., coach)
John Reynolds
Craig Reynolds
Kevin Roethe (Milwaukee DSHA High School coach, former UW-Milwaukee player)
Seth Roland (Fairleigh Dickinson coach)
Erik Ronning (Colgate coach, former Northwestern assistant)
Juan Salvadores-Canedo
Keith Scarlett (Bishop Hartley High School coach, Westerville, Ohio; former Plymouth State coach)
Kevin Schalk (Central, Iowa, women's assistant)
Kurt Schmid (UC Irvine assistant, son of MLS coach Sigi Schmid)
Michael Seabolt (Missouri State assistant, former West Virginia coach)
Christian Serino (former Oakland City coach)
Angelo Sestito (Saint Francis Xavier Academy coach in Canada, current pro player)
Dwayne Shaffer (UC Davis coach)
Daryl Shore (Chicago Fire assistant)
Steve Simmons (Northern Illinois coach)
Jason Smith
Matthew Smith
Paul Snape (Michigan assistant)
Bill Solberg (FC Milwaukee coach, former Houston women's coach, Brookfield native, former Marquette player and assistant)
Eddie Soto (UCLA assistant, former Cal State Fullerton and Long Beach State assistant)
Seth Spidahl (Washington assistant)
Jacob Staton
Mark Stollsteimer (Davis and Elkins coach, W.Va.)
Jairo Swirsky
Wayne Tollon
Steve Trittschuh (director of coaching for Rush Soccer Club, Colo., former U.S. national team player, MLS player and assistant)
Javier Velasco (New Jersy Assistant of Technology assistant)
Vito Veneruso (former College of Staten Island coach)
Mark Waite (Old Dominion assistant)
Ernest Yarborough III
Kenichi Yatsuhashi (Borough of Manhattan Community College coach, former pro player)
Todd Yeagley (Indiana assistant, former MLS player)
Diego Zaltron (Andromeda Soccer Club coach, Plano, Texas)
Comments (2)
3 rd choice
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Sunday, December 21, 2008 9:56 AM
Switzerland
What the UW doesnt tell you is that they offered the job out two other times before Yeagley accepted the job. Caleb Porter at Akron and John Trask at UIC. You need to ask yourself why a University of this size and atheltic ability is being refused by mid major coaches? That just tells you that the job is not a high profile job. Facilities are a major reason they are settling for a Assistant coach. Not to say the former coach was the right choice either, but this opening (UW) is not that sought after. This job should garner the top people in the country, not top assistants in the country. Top assistants should get mid majors, not MAJORS! UW has a truly warped sense of the shape of the programs intangibles. (facilities, salaries, importance and relevance) Im just an outsider looking in, but it is really transparent from here.
UW soccer...
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Sunday, December 21, 2008 10:53 PM
Optimistic
I'm with Switzerland on this one.
IMHO the UW athletic department sabotaged the men's soccer program in the mid 90's because it was becoming just a little "too successful"!
They had just won the National Championship; were drawing sizable crowds and had to have been close to being in the black (financially). You know what that means???
No more big three (football, basketball & hockey)... It would now have to be BIG FOUR!
"We can't have that can we?
Let's fire the successful coach...
We'll hire someone who is not qualified for the job.
The best scholarship players will leave."
At least 101 people applied to become the University of Wisconsin men's soccer coach.
IMHO the UW athletic department sabotaged the men's soccer program in the mid 90's because it was becoming just a little "too successful"!
They had just won the National Championship; were drawing sizable crowds and had to have been close to being in the black (financially). You know what that means???
No more big three (football, basketball & hockey)... It would now have to be BIG FOUR!
"We can't have that can we?
Let's fire the successful coach...
We'll hire someone who is not qualified for the job.
The best scholarship players will leave."
Maybe I'll all wrong about this...
Optimistic