Barry Gorman is a collegiate soccer coach. He most recently served as the head men's soccer coach at

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from 1987 to 2009, before being replaced by

Bob Warming Bob Warming is an American soccer coach is currently a technical advisor for Union Omaha in USL League One. A veteran college soccer coach, Warming has coached eight other men's college soccer programs across the United States, including Penn St ...

. He is Penn State's all-time winningest soccer coach, compiling 266 victories in 22 seasons. He is a three time

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Regional Coach of the Year, having won the award in the 1992, 1999, and 2005 seasons. He also won

Big Ten Coach of the Year Coaches and media of the Big Ten Conference award the following individual honors at the end of each American football, football season. In addition, the ''Chicago Tribune'' awards the Chicago Tribune Silver Football to the most valuable football p ...

honors in 2005. He has led his team to 13 NCAA tournament appearances, advancing to the round of 16 four times and to the national quarterfinals twice, and three Big 10 regular season championships. Prior to his time as head coach, Gorman also served as an assistant for two years under

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. PSU Coaching Legacy 100 Years, 4 Generations of Penn State Coaching History Gorman is linked to Coach

Bill Jeffrey Sir William Alexander Jeffrey, KCB (born 28 February 1948) is a former senior British civil servant, who retired in the autumn of 2010. Jeffrey was educated at Allan Glen's School, Glasgow, and the Glasgow University. He joined the Home Offic ...

, the head coach of

Men's Soccer in the early 20's, who later became the Men's national team head coach in the World Cup. Coach Jeffrey died in 1966 and his coaching lineage worked through four generations at Penn State University. By 1970, the captain of Jeffrey's 1950 USA team,

would become coach at Penn State from 1974 to 1988. His assistant, Barry Gorman, would later succeed him as head coach, keeping the Penn State job through the 2009 season. In 2021, the connection to Jeffrey continues with Coach Gorman's youth player,

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, who took the head coaching job at

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. The coaching connection reached four separate generations of soccer, reaching a 100-year continual coaching succession.

Modern conference play

In 2000, Gorman was appointed to the Board of the NSCAA in order to fill the vacancy left following the passing of

Mike Berticelli Mike Berticelli (April 26, 1951 – January 25, 2000) as an American college soccer coach. From 1990 to 1999, he served as the head men's soccer coach at the University of Notre Dame, where he compiled a 104–80–19(.559) record. He led the F ...

. On Jan. 18, 2002, Gorman assumed the title of President of the NSCAA. Gorman had a distinguished playing career in the Irish Football League located in

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. In 1976, Gorman emigrated to the United States to start his coaching career. In 1977, he was an assistant coach at

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, leading the college to its first ever Division III national championship. In 1978, he was named head soccer coach at Elco High School in Pennsylvania, where he posted one of the most successful resumes in high school soccer history. His teams went 133-13-3, won five league championships, and captured the state championship in 1979. In 1984, Gorman left to coach

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to the 1984 Division II semifinals with a record of 13-3-3. In April 2010, Gorman was named

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' technical director. As technical director, Gorman directed the club's player personnel operations, including international and domestic scouting, trades and acquisitions, player contracts and team administration. He also evaluated the development of FC Dallas Juniors prospects for the professional team. In December 2011 he was fired and later replaced as technical director by

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. His son,

Trevor Gorman Trevor Gorman is the head coach of the Albany Great Danes men's soccer team; a position he has held since 2011. Prior to his position at Albany, he served as an assistant coach for the Wright State Raiders and Dartmouth Big Green The Dartmouth ...

, is the head coach for the

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team.

References

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