Mens Head Coach: Jon Leamy

Missouri State University jonleamy@missouristate.edu Phone: (417) 836-5243 Fax: (417) 836-8475 Undergraduate Degree Roanoke College, 1982 Graduate Degree Illinois State, 1986

Jon Leamy enters his 21st season as head coach of the Missouri State men's soccer team and has transformed the Bears into a nationally-recognized program.

In 2005, Leamy reached the 150-win plateau with a victory over Western Kentucky. Last season, the Bears finished 12-5-2, including a 7-1-1 mark in the MVC to win the regular season MVC title.  His squad advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the third time in school history, all under the tutelage of Leamy.  

The winningest coach in school history, Leamy has produced a 187-130-33 (.581) record during his Missouri State tenure. The four-time conference Coach of the Year and three-time Midwest Region Coach of the Year has produced 81 all-conference selections and 51 all-academic picks. Leamy is the winningest active MVC coach with 63 career victories in conference. Last season marked the 15th-consecutive trip to the MVC tournament under Leamy’s reign.

In 1996, MSU goalkeeper Brad Barnes became the first MSU soccer player to earn CoSIDA Academic All-America first team honors after receiving second team recognition in 1995.  Doug Lascody and Justin Douglass earned second team honors in 2004 and 2005, respectively. Forward Ryan Anderson became the first player in school history to earn conference player of the year honors, sharing the award with Drake's Jesse Baker in 2005. Anderson was also the first player in school history to be voted to the NSCAA/adidas All-America team, earning second-team honors.

The 2005 Bears, playing for the first time as Missouri State and 25th year as a program,  reeled off a 10-match unbeaten streak to start the season, culminating in a number nine national ranking by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. The team improved to 12-1-2 before dropping its final three matches of the season to finish 12-4-2,  which included a 4-3 mark and fifth-place finish in the MVC. Highlights of the season included a school-record five match shutout streak from Sept. 9-23 and an offensive attack that ranked atop the conference in goals and points for much of the season. 

In 2004, the Bears flew out of the gate with the nation's second-longest unbeaten streak (11 games), dating back to the 2003 season. The streak resumed in 2004 with a tie against Loyola Marymount before the Bears rattled off seven straight victories. MSU finished at 11-6-2 on the season and was 4-4-1 in the MVC to tie for fifth place and advanced to its 10th consecutive conference tournament. Leamy saw two players drafted, Lascody 35th overall by the Kansas City Wizards,  and Jim Levesque by the St. Louis Steamers of the MISL. Lascody was the fourth MSU player in three years to be drafted into Major League Soccer. 

In 2003, the Bears finished 9-7-3 overall and knocked off the MVC Tournament top seed and 18th-ranked Creighton Bluejays, 1-0 on the Bluejays' home field in the tournament quarterfinals.  The Bears then battled 19th-ranked Bradley to a 1-1 tie in the semifinals, only to lose the contest on penalty kicks.

Leamy took the Bears to new heights in 2000, as they climbed as high as third in the national polls. Leamy picked up career win number 100 in a 2-1 victory over then eighth-ranked and eventual NCAA national finalist Creighton on September 29. The Bears finished the season 9-7-3 after injuries saw the team drop five one-goal matches.

In 1999, the Bears finished the season 17-1-3 overall, were outright Valley regular season and tournament champions and earned the program's first-ever NCAA Tournament seeding. While accumulating a 20-match unbeaten streak, MSU was ranked in the nation's top 10 for seven consecutive weeks. For his efforts, Leamy earned both the Valley and Midwest Region Coach of the Year honors and was an NSCAA National Coach of the Year finalist. 

Leamy led the Bears to their first ever NCAA Tournament appearance in 1997, as the Bears went 13-5-3 and 6-0-1 in MVC play and won the Valley regular season championship.

A native of Ipswich, Mass., Leamy graduated from Roanoke (Va.) College in 1982. He captained the nationally-ranked Maroons for two years and earned all-conference honors as a defender. 

Leamy's coaching career began in 1982 as an assistant at his alma mater. He was an assistant at Dartmouth College for one season before becoming a graduate assistant at Illinois State University in 1984. He spent three seasons with the Redbirds before taking over as head coach at Columbia (Mo.) College in 1987, where he started the soccer program. He also served as a coach for Blue Springs (Mo.) High in 1989. Leamy returned to the Illinois State soccer program in 1989 and helped guide the 1990 team to a school-record 14-win season and its first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance. 

In addition to his decorated collegiate experience, Leamy has spent extensive time working with youth soccer programs.  He has served as director of the Illinois Youth Soccer Association Boys Olympic Development Program, and is currently the director of the Southwest Missouri Soccer School. Leamy also served as a Midwest Olympic Development Regional staff coach.  

Leamy earned his master's degree in athletic administration from Illinois State in 1986. He holds both NSCAA and Advanced National coaching diplomas and is licensed by the U. S. Soccer Federation and the Football Association of Ireland. Leamy and his wife, Diane, have two sons, Cody and Colton.

Women's Head Coach: Rob Brewer

Missouri State University robertbrewer@missouristate.edu Phone: (417) 836-6654 Fax: (417) 836-8475 Masters Degree Virginia Tech, 1981

Head coach Rob Brewer begins his 16th season leading the Missouri State women's soccer program.

Overall, Missouri State has produced a 141-122-33 record during Brewer's tenure. The 1999 Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year has produced 75 all-conference selections and 53 academic all-conference honorees. In 15 seasons as a program, the team has only three losing seasons. 

Brewer's 2010 squad went 10-6-3 overall and 4-1-1 in MVC play, finishing second in the Valley for a second-straight season. It was Brewer's third 10-win season in the last five years. His team made its 15th-consecutive trip to the MVC Tournament and took regular season conference champion Creighton to overtime of the MVC Tournament finals before ending its season in heartbreaking fashion.

In 2009, Brewer led the Bears to a 9-6-3 overall record and a 4-1-1 conference finish. MSU finished a half game behind Illinois State for the conference title; the second-place finish was the highest conference finish in Brewer's tenure. The team reached the semifinals for the second-straight season and third time in four seasons before dropping a road decision to Creighton in overtime, 2-1.

Brewer led the 2008 squad to a 10-7-2 record and the conference semifinals before Evansville eliminated the Bears from the MVC Tournament. It was the sixth time Brewer had reached double-digit wins in a season at Missouri State.

The 2007 Bears squad ended the season with an overall record of 6-11-2 and a 2-2-2 Missouri Valley Conference record. Brewer's squad made it's 12th trip to the State Farm MVC Tournament and earned a fifth-place finish in the Valley. The Bears defensive line was strong, holding opponent offenses to a 0.81 goals-against average. Missouri State suffered a tough offensive drought, scoring the lowest number of goals (16) and points (43) in Missouri State history in a single season.

In 2006, Brewer and the Bears' program celebrated their 100th win with a 2-1 overtime victory over Alabama A&M on Sept. 8 at the Arkansas Lady Razorback Classic. The squad had many highs and lows. The team's six-match winning streak from Sept. 1-17 tied a school record for consecutive victories. The Bears would win only three of their last 12 matches, however, to finish 10-9-2. MSU rebounded to avenge a regular season loss to Illinois State by knocking off the Redbirds in the first round of the MVC Tournament in Normal. A 1-0 overtime loss to MVC champion Drake ended the Bears' season.

The 2005 Bears ended the season with an overall record of 9-4-5 and a 3-1-2 Missouri Valley Conference record. Brewer made his 10th consecutive trip to the State Farm MVC Tournament and landed a third-place finish in the Valley. With the finish, the Bears matched the best regular season finish in MSU school history.

In 2004, the Bears finished with an overall record of 9-4-4 and a 3-2-2 record in the MVC, finishing the season tied for fourth place in the league. The year also saw three MSU all-time team records set in fewest goals allowed (13), goals-against average (0.73) and fewest saves (97). 

In 2000, Missouri State won its first MVC Tournament championship and made its first appearance in the NCAA Tournament. The squad finished the season 12-11-1 overall and set a single-season team record with 11 shutouts.

In 2003, Brewer guided the Bears to a 9-9-3 overall record and a 5-2-0 MVC mark. The Bears advanced to the MVC tournament semifinals for the seventh time in eight years before losing 1-0 to eventual champion Illinois State.

Brewer led the Bears to their fourth straight winning season at 8-7-3 and a winning MVC conference record of 3-2-2 in 2002. Northern Iowa spoiled the Bears' chances of advancing to the MVC tournament semifinals for the seventh straight season, however, by defeating the Bears, 2-0, in the play-in game. 

In 2001, Brewer and the women's soccer team enjoyed postseason success for the third straight season. After an up-and-down season, Missouri State entered the tournament as a fifth seed, beating fourth-seeded Drury in a tournament play-in game to earn a second straight semifinal game against Illinois State. Missouri State upset top-seeded Illinois State, 2-0, earning the Bears a spot in the championship for the third straight season. In the final game, Missouri State lost a heartbreaker to Evansville, 2-1, spoiling its hopes of reaching the NCAA Tournament for the second straight season. 

In 1999, Missouri State posted a 14-7-1 record and finished runner-up at the Valley tournament after a grueling 3-2 loss to Evansville in three overtime periods. That season, Missouri State set team records for goals scored (65), assists (52) and wins (14).

A 1977 graduate of Lynchburg (Va.) College, Brewer came to Missouri State after seven years at Elon (N.C.) College, where he was assistant professor of physical education and served stints as coach of the men's and women's soccer teams. During his tenure, Elon made the move from NAIA affiliation to NCAA Division II in 1992-93.

Brewer enjoyed tremendous success with the Elon women's soccer team, serving as the program's leader from 1989 to 1993 and compiling a 68-28-2 record, including four straight conference titles. In 1992, he was named the NAIA Regional Coach of the Year after leading the Lady Fightin' Christians to a 19-6 mark, an NAIA regional championship and a spot in the national semifinals in Tacoma, Wash.

In each of his first two coaching jobs, from 1985 to 1989 at Virginia Wesleyan College in Norfolk and from 1978 to 1985 at Roanoke College in Salem, Va., Brewer took men's teams with sub-.500 records and turned them into winners, producing 11 consecutive winning seasons. At Roanoke, he coached current Missouri State men's soccer coach Jon Leamy for four seasons.

Brewer, who earned his master's degree in education from Virginia Tech in 1981, was a standout soccer player at Lynchburg and competed as a high jumper on the Hornets' track and field team. He won the school's Outstanding Male Athlete Award as a senior in 1977 and was inducted into the Lynchburg Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.

The Lynchburg, Va., native was selected by the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Committee to serve on the Central Regional Advisory Committee in February of 1998. 

Brewer and his wife, Karen, have two daughters, Katie and Molly.

Associate Coach: Michael Seabolt

Missouri State University mseabolt@missouristate.edu Phone: (417) 836-4495 Fax: (417) 836-8475 Undergraduate Degree Trinity 1996

Michael Seabolt begins his fourth season on Jon Leamy's staff in 2010. He was promoted to Associate Head Coach prior to the 2009 season. He is involved in all facets of the program on and off the field and oversees recruiting. Seabolt has helped lead MSU from a 6-win team in 2007 to a 12-win team in 2009. Also in 2009, MSU captured the regular season MVC championship and an NCAA tournament bid, both for the first time in 10 years.

During his eleven-year NCAA coaching career, Seabolt has coached three different NCAA programs from losing records into the NCAA tournament, in four years or less in each case, and has won two conference championships and one national title. Over that span young men he has recruited and/or coached have gone on to achieve the following through soccer:

43 All-Conference team members, 18 All-Region team members, 4 All-Americans, 5 Academic All-Conference selections, 5 Academic All-Region honorees, 2 Academic All-Americans, 4 Conference Players of the Year, 1 National Player of the Year, 10 Major League Soccer players, 8 lower division professional soccer players in the U.S., 6 overseas professional soccer players, 5 youth national team members and 3 full national team members.

Seabolt came to Missouri State after a three-year stint as the head men's soccer coach at West Virginia University. Seabolt led the Mountaineers to 13 wins in 2005 to tie a school record, as the team advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1992 and won a tournament game for the first time since 1981. Seabolt guided the Mountaineers from five wins in 2003 to 12 the following season and the school's first-ever Big East Conference tournament victory and a semifinal birth. During his time as head coach from 2003 to 2006, Seabolt recruited and coached the school's first nine players to play in Major League Soccer and four that went on to play professionally in England, Scotland, and Sweden. He also developed and ran soccer camps for boys.

Prior to becoming head coach, Seabolt was the top assistant coach at West Virginia for a season. He arrived at WVU from Major League Soccer's Colorado Rapids, where he was an assistant coach for two seasons. During this time, Seabolt was also the head coach of the Boulder Rapids Reserve, a team in the Premier Development League (PDL). He took the team to the 2002 national championship game, in a 12-4-4 season.

Seabolt was the top assistant for the University of Tampa during the 2000 and 2001 seasons, helping lead the team to an undefeated season and the NCAA Division II National Title in 2001. He also served as an assistant coach for the United States Amateur Soccer Association National Team from 2000 to 2003. Prior to the University of Tampa he spent one season as an assistant with the former Tampa Bay Mutiny of Major League Soccer. His first collegiate job was with Elon University from 1999 to 2000 as an assistant with the men's team. He also was spent one season as the men's club soccer player/coach at Duke University during his time in law school.

Seabolt, who is a USSF "A" licensed coach, graduated cum laude with a degree in political science from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, in 1996, and is a member of Phi Kappa Beta honor society. He graduated from the Duke University School of Law in 2000. Seabolt is an avid skier and was lucky to spend two endless winters teaching skiing, working with the Ski Meisters, and waiting tables in New Zealand and Colorado before becoming a coach.

Assistant Coach: Ger Coppinger

Missouri State University Men's Soccer Assistant Coach gcoppinger@missouristate.edu Phone: (417) 836-3743 Fax: (417) 836-8475 Undergraduate Degree Missouri Baptist University 2011

Ger Coppinger begins his first season as assistant coach with the Missouri State men's soccer program. Coppinger will aid in recruiting and focus on training the goalkeepers at MSU.

Coppinger came to Missouri State after spending 2010 as the men's and women's goalkeeper coach at Missouri Baptist University. He also coached the U-17 O'Fallon Kixx men's team for two seasons, leading them to the State Cup tournament in one of those seasons.

As a player, Coppinger was a goalkeeper on the varsity squad at Missouri Baptist for four seasons. After learning the position as a back-up, he took the reins as the starting keeper his senior season with the Spartans.

Before attending Missouri Baptist, Coppinger attended Colaiste Ide in his native Ireland, where he traveled to the U.S. to play in a soccer tournament. At that tournament, he was recruited to MBU. He was also named the Sports Person of the Year at Fingal Community College in Dublin after playing soccer and Gaelic football there in 2004.

Coppinger earned a B.S. in physical education from Missouri Baptist in May 2011 and has a teaching license. He also holds a Goalkeeper I & II diploma and National "D" Coaching License from NSCAA.

Women's Assistant Coach: Drew Fitzgerald

	Missouri State University afitzgerald@missouristate.edu Phone: (417) 836-3727 Fax: (417) 836-8475 Undergraduate Degree Texas A&M

Drew Fitzgerald begins his first season as an assistant coach for the Bears after spending 2010 as a volunteer assistant coach with the team.

Before coming to Missouri State, Fitzgerald spent four seasons as a women's soccer assistant coach at McNeese State. As an assistant with the Cowgirls, he helped the squad to an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2006. He also helped guide the team to the Southland Conference Championship in 2007. In 2008, he aided the team, which reached the Southland Conference Tournament finals.

Fitzgerald was the head coach of the Texas A&M men's club soccer team before landing at McNeese State. As head coach of A&M's club team, he led them to the 2004 NIRSA National Championship. His team was undefeated that season.

Fitzgerald earned a B.S. in Journalism (2001) and an M.S. in Sport Management (2005) from Texas A&M. He also received his NSCAA National Diploma, Goalkeeper I & II diploma and the USSF National "D" License.

Drew and his wife, Ashleigh, live in Springfield. Ashleigh is the head volleyball coach at Drury University in Springfield.

The Missouri State Soccer School has prided itself on quality instruction. Past coaching staffs have included:

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