Jeremy Gunn is an English retired

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who is the head men's soccer coach at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

. He played professionally in the

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Player

Gunn played in both the

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and

Scunthorpe United F.C. Scunthorpe United Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. The side currently competes in the National League (division), National League, the fifth tier of the English foo ...

youth systems in his native England before coming to the United States. He attended

Cal State Bakersfield California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB, Cal State Bakersfield, or CSU Bakersfield) is a public university in Bakersfield, California. It was established in 1965 as Kern State College and officially in 1968 as California State College Bake ...

where he was a 1992 First Team NCAA Division II All American soccer player. In 1993, he joined the

Chico Rooks The Chico Rooks were an American soccer team, founded in 1993 by Dave Stahl and Eric Snedeker. The team was a member of the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, until 2006. Initially, the team's m ...

of the

. In 1998, he moved to the

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. On 29 May 1998, the Metros traded Gunn to the

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for John Jones and a 1999 draft pick.

Coach

Even while playing professionally, Gunn was also coaching. In 1993, he became an assistant at Cal-State Bakersfield. In 1999, he became the head coach of the

Fort Lewis College Fort Lewis College is a public liberal arts college in Durango, Colorado. Because of its unique origins as a military fort turned Indian boarding school turned state public school, FLC follows a 1911 mandate to give qualified Native Americans a ...

soccer team. Over eight seasons, he compiled a 123–35–17 record and won six

Rocky Mountain Conference The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC), commonly known as the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) from approximately 1910 through the late 1960s, is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NC ...

championships. He took the Skyhawks to the 1999, 2005 and

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NCAA Men's Division II Soccer Championship The NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship is the annual tournament held by the NCAA to determine the top men's Division II college soccer program in the United States. It has been played annually since 1972; prior to then, all teams competed ...

. The team won in 2005 and finished runner-up in 1999 and 2006. He was the 2005 NCAA Division II Coach of the Year. On 26 December 2006, the

Charlotte 49ers The Charlotte 49ers are the college athletics in the United States, intercollegiate athletics teams that represent the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina. The 49ers compete at the National Collegiate Athletic A ...

hired Gunn to coach the school's men's soccer team. In 2007, he took his team to their first ever

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Tournament championship game. In 2011, Gunn led the 49ers to the finals of the College Cup, where they lost 1–0 to

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. In December 2011, Gunn was hired as the head men's soccer coach at Stanford, leading them to National Championships in 2015, 2016, and 2017.

References

External links

Charleston Battery: Jeremy Gunn
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