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[Kuiper]

Corey King, an assistant at Ohio Wesleyan the past two years, takes over at Muskingum

https://twitter.com/FightingMuskies/status/1626580049603481605?s=20

[Ejay]

Maxx Wurzburger, Associate Head Coach (whatever that is) at Montclair State, leaves to become Assistant Coach at D1 Rider, who incidentally just hired Chad Duernberger (Dartmouth Assistant) as their head coach in January.

https://gobroncs.com/news/2023/2/15/maxx-wurzburger-hired-as-mens-soccer-assistant-coach.aspx

[Hillcountryview]

Zach Ward has resigned from Haverford.

[Saint of Old]

Haverford had a nice run about 8 yrs ago.
Played my Saints in NCAAs and did very well.
Staying on top is always more difficult than getting 2 the top.

[BigSoccerFan]

Maxx Wurzburger, Associate Head Coach (whatever that is) at Montclair State, leaves to become Assistant Coach at D1 Rider, who incidentally just hired Chad Duernberger (Dartmouth Assistant) as their head coach in January.

https://gobroncs.com/news/2023/2/15/maxx-wurzburger-hired-as-mens-soccer-assistant-coach.aspx

Do coaches experience the same jump process as players.  Meaning they have to adjust to speed?  Why go from HC for Asst?

[Saint of Old]

It is what lawyers call a case by case basis.
Depends.
Age/Community/Family/Location.
Martin Jacobson has just won his 20th HS championship in NYC coaching MLK High school.
He established a system and recruited well.
Once you do both those things at any level you just have to rinse and repeat to have a legacy.
If you can motivate good with people and know the game, the HS/Soccer levels are not that vast in my opinion.

[Kuiper]

Maxx Wurzburger, Associate Head Coach (whatever that is) at Montclair State, leaves to become Assistant Coach at D1 Rider, who incidentally just hired Chad Duernberger (Dartmouth Assistant) as their head coach in January.

https://gobroncs.com/news/2023/2/15/maxx-wurzburger-hired-as-mens-soccer-assistant-coach.aspx

Do coaches experience the same jump process as players.  Meaning they have to adjust to speed?  Why go from HC for Asst?

D1 assistant coach could pay more and be more of a full-time year-round gig than D3 Assoc HC, which would allow a coach to stop coaching a bunch of youth clubs to make ends meet.  Some D3 HC jobs pay very little and they may have extra responsibilities like teaching a PE class or doing facilities or asst  AD work.

[PauldingLightUP]

UW Stout is adding men’s soccer and searching for a head coach.

Guess they would start fall 2024.

https://wiacsports.com/services/download_file.ashx?file_location=https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/wiacsports.com/documents/2023/3/7/Stout_Men_Soccer_Vacancy_Announcement.pdf

[Ron Boerger]

Long-time Trinity(TX) assistant Edward Cartee (TU '09) has been named the head coach at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.  During his 11 years at Trinity (which was 189-29-16 during that time), he was simultaneously head coach at San Antonio Central Catholic HS, where his teams compiled a .738 winning percentage and won five TAPPS state championships including four straight from 2017-2020.

Edit: he replaces Trevor Swartz, who left CMS in January after a less than one year stint which saw the team sink from 14-2-3 to 4-3-5 and had its season cancelled in early October due to "nearly all members of the team, acting as a team, violat[ing] multiple conduct standards, including organizing and carrying out an event which subjected new team members to multiple acts of hazing."   Hard to believe anyone would hire a coach even tangentially associated with that disaster, let alone a D1 program, but then again it's UNLV.

[Kuiper]

Long-time Trinity(TX) assistant Edward Cartee (TU '09) has been named the head coach at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.  During his 11 years at Trinity (which was 189-29-16 during that time), he was simultaneously head coach at San Antonio Central Catholic HS, where his teams compiled a .738 winning percentage and won five TAPPS state championships including four straight from 2017-2020.

Edit: he replaces Trevor Swartz, who left CMS in January after a less than one year stint which saw the team sink from 14-2-3 to 4-3-5 and had its season cancelled in early October due to "nearly all members of the team, acting as a team, violat[ing] multiple conduct standards, including organizing and carrying out an event which subjected new team members to multiple acts of hazing."   Hard to believe anyone would hire a coach even tangentially associated with that disaster, let alone a D1 program, but then again it's UNLV.

That’s a great hire for CMS.  I always thought Cartee was the coach-in-waiting at Trinity, having been there so long and being an alum, but it’s a good move for him whether as a permanent stop or to gain experience as a HC for when the Trinity position opens up when McGinlay retires.

As for Swartz, he was in over his head as a HC, taking over at the last minute and only being HC for a few months before the incident and scrambling to assemble a coaching staff over the summer (both of whom were also very young). Swartz was an AC the year before, but he’s very young and it was one of his first coaching gigs after college.  A culture of hazing probably existed there for years before they were caught.

[Ron Boerger]

Long-time Trinity(TX) assistant Edward Cartee (TU '09) has been named the head coach at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.  During his 11 years at Trinity (which was 189-29-16 during that time), he was simultaneously head coach at San Antonio Central Catholic HS, where his teams compiled a .738 winning percentage and won five TAPPS state championships including four straight from 2017-2020.

Edit: he replaces Trevor Swartz, who left CMS in January after a less than one year stint which saw the team sink from 14-2-3 to 4-3-5 and had its season cancelled in early October due to "nearly all members of the team, acting as a team, violat[ing] multiple conduct standards, including organizing and carrying out an event which subjected new team members to multiple acts of hazing."   Hard to believe anyone would hire a coach even tangentially associated with that disaster, let alone a D1 program, but then again it's UNLV.

That’s a great hire for CMS.  I always thought Cartee was the coach-in-waiting at Trinity, having been there so long and being an alum, but it’s a good move for him whether as a permanent stop or to gain experience as a HC for when the Trinity position opens up when McGinlay retires.

As for Swartz, he was in over his head as a HC, taking over at the last minute and only being HC for a few months before the incident and scrambling to assemble a coaching staff over the summer (both of whom were also very young). Swartz was an AC the year before, but he’s very young and it was one of his first coaching gigs after college.  A culture of hazing probably existed there for years before they were caught.

Good perspective on Swartz - thank you!

I do worry about Trinity replacing McGinlay when that time comes.  He is going to be a very hard act to follow. 

[EnmoreCat]

There aren't too many D3 coaches I can speak semi-knowledgeably about, but Coach Cartee is one of them, after my son and I spent a few days with Trinity back in 2018, including a bus ride from South-Western back to San Antonio.  He knows his stuff is a good place to start with him.  A very nice guy on top of that and someone who really loves the game and his players.  He was a tremendous advocate for the university and the MSOC programme and whilst it wasn't the initial direction my son was taking, had things been different, it would have been quite an easy choice.

Under any other circumstances, CMS would be a great opportunity, but in some ways now, it feels like an even better one as Coach Cartee can lead the development of a new culture there and if he can take with him the best of Trinity, I am sure he will be successful on and off the field. 

[Kuiper]

I noticed that Haverford lists an interim head coach, Kevin Brenner, on their website.  It’s not unusual to have an interim, but usually they are an assistant coach finishing up their contract.  Brenner is coming from a stint as an assistant at D1 LaSalle.

https://www.haverfordathletics.com/sports/msoc/coaches/index

[Kuiper]

Tyler Oliver, the associate head coach at Gustavus Adolphus, was named Head Coach at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN.  Lots of experience in the MIAC.

https://hamlineathletics.com/news/2023/3/22/tyler-oliver-named-hamline-head-mens-soccer-coach.aspx

[Kuiper]

I missed this one from January, but Brad Bankhead was named head coach of Hardin-Simmons.  It's a somewhat unusual hire because Bankhead was head coach of Mary Hardin-Baylor for 16 years and had just assumed the role of Associate Athletic Director and NCAA Compliance Officer for MHB in the summer of 2022.  So, he effectively took one year off from coaching and apparently decided he missed it and jumped back in to take the job with his alma mater, with whom he was a four year starter and was a volunteer assistant back in 2000 right after he graduated.

https://ascsports.org/news/2023/1/4/brad-bankhead-named-hardin-simmons-mens-soccer-head-coach.aspx