Paul Ratcliffe of Stanford University and Matt Yelton of Lee University each were honored for the second consecutive year with the announcement of the 2009 NSCAA/Mondo National Coach of the Year awards. The announcements were made as part of the annual NSCAA Awards Banquet, held in conjunction with the 2010 NSCAA Convention in Philadelphia, Pa.

Ratcliffe led his Stanford squad to its first NCAA Division I women's championship match and a 25-1 record last fall, while Yelton's team earned its second NAIA women's national title in as many years.

Seven other coaches added this year's honor to prior awards. Ray Wells of Lindsey Wilson College claimed his third NAIA men's award, while Craig Ewing of St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Overland Park, Kan., received his first award in the High School Boys Private/Parochial division after previously winning the honor twice (1995, 2005) with his girls' teams. Two colleges, Messiah College (NCAA Division III) and The Master's College (NCCAA Division I) swept both the men's and women's awards.

The coaches were presented with their awards by NSCAA President Randy Waldrum and Mondo Director of Sales Scott MacRury.

2009 NSCAA/Mondo National Coaches of the Year

NCAA Division I Men
Caleb Porter, Akron
Porter molded the Zips into the most dominant Division I team of 2009, leading the nation in with 2.32 goals per game and a goals-against-average of 0.27. The consensus No. 1-ranked team the final nine weeks of the season, Akron claimed its fourth Mid-American Conference title. He now has a record of 68-12-8 at Akron, including a 20-1-1 record in conference play.

NCAA Division I Women
Paul Ratcliffe, Stanford
Ratcliffe becomes the first in 14 years to claim back-to-back Division I women’s national honors. He guided Stanford to a school-best 25-1 record and its first NCAA championship final. Along the way, the Cardinal broke a school record with 80 goals and placed four players on the NSCAA/Performance Subaru All-America Team. He now has a career record of 165-68-23 with eight NCAA Tournament appearances.

NCAA Division II Men
Chad Duernberger, University of Charleston
Duernberger led his team to a 19-4 record in 2009, including a 12-0 conference mark, and the No. 7 spot in the final NSCAA Division II national poll. This comes only two years after he inherited a team that was winless in 2007. He has a 23-23-2 record after two seasons at Charleston.

NCAA Division II Women
Laurie Darling Guthiel, College of St. Rose
Darling Guthiel’s team posted a 24-1 record while advancing to the NCAA championship finals for the second consecutive year. Its only loss was an overtime decision to eventual national champion Grand Valley State. In the past eight years, she had led her team to a record of 135-27-14 and seven NCAA Tournament appearances.

NCAA Division III Men
Brad McCarty, Messiah College
In his first year at the helm, McCarty kept Messiah at the pinnacle, leading the team to its second NCAA title in as many years and its seventh in the last 10 seasons. His squad posted a 24-1 record while outscoring opponents by a 94-17 margin, and seven of his players earned all-conference honors.

NCAA Division III Women
Scott Frey, Messiah College
Posting a 25-0-1 record, Frey’s squad claimed its second consecutive NCAA title. His team outscored its opponents by a staggering 104-7 and outshot its foes by a 646-98 margin. The NSCAA National Coach of the Year in 2005, he now has a record of 181-12-9 in nine seasons at Messiah, including a 73-2-2 record in conference play.

NAIA Men
Ray Wells, Lindsey Wilson College
Wells claims his third NSCAA National Coach of the Year award after taking the honor in 1995 and 1998. His team won its eighth NAIA national championship this year to cap a 20-2-1 season. The Blue Raiders outscored their foes by an 81-11 margin. Wells now has a 397-75-24 record in 20 years at the school and a 458-99-31 mark as a college head coach.

NAIA Women
Matt Yelton, Lee University
Yelton earns his second consecutive NSCAA National Coach of the Year award after guiding his team to back-to-back NAIA titles. Posting a 21-2-1 record, his Lady Flames were powered by a defense that allowed only six goals and did not allow a goal in its final 11 games. He now has a 185-69-9 record in 12 seasons as a collegiate head coach.

NCCAA Division I Men
Jim Rickard, The Master’s College
Rickard’s team posted a 19-3-3 record and advanced all the way to the NAIA championship game before falling to Lindsey Wilson College. His side allowed only 15 goals all season, logging 14 shutouts. In 19 years, he has recorded 240 wins, 16 playoff appearances and three NCCAA national championships. He also was NCCAA National Coach of the Year in 2007.

NCCAA Division I Women
Curtis Lewis, The Master’s College
In his third year at the helm, Lewis guided his team to the NCCAA national title with a 15-5-2 record, outscoring foes by a 51-18 margin. Four of his players earned NSCAA All-America honors this year. After a 2-12-2 record in his first season, Lewis has posted a 28-14-3 record in the past two seasons.

NCCAA Division II Men
James Whitaker, Clearwater Christian College
In only his second year as head coach, Whitaker led this team to the NCCAA Division II national title, the first in the school’s history. After a 9-7-2 mark in 2008, his team improved to 14-2-4, outscoring its opponents 57-18 and posting 10 shutouts.

NCCAA Division II Women
Eric Ingmire, Manhattan (Kan.) Christian College
His team posted a record of 10-5-2 in 2009 and claimed the NCCAA Division II title. They did not allow a goal in the three games at the NCCAA Tournament after entering as the No. 3 seed. In three seasons as the women’s head coach, he has built a record of 28-18-4.

Junior College Division I Men
Steve Clements, Tyler Junior College (Texas)
Clements’ team capped an undefeated season by claiming the NJCAA national championship with a shootout victory over Georgia Perimeter College. The team went 21-0, including 12 shutouts. This is Clements’ second NSCAA National Coach of the Year honor, having won the award in 2000 while he was coaching Meridian Community College. He has a 262-58-11 career record in 16 seasons.

Junior College Division I Women
Corey Rose, Tyler Junior College (Texas)
Rose’s team finished off an undefeated 19-0-1 season with its first NJCAA national championship in only the second season of the program’s existence. Along the way the Apaches outscored their opponents 73-14 and posted 11 shutouts. Rose now has a 31-3-2 record in two seasons at Tyler.

Junior College Division III Men
Alex Louis, Union County College
Louis took his team to the first national championship for Union County College in any sport. The squad had an 18-5-1 record to improve Louis’ career mark to 192-59-13 in 13 seasons at the helm. It was the Owls’ fourth trip to the national semifinals in the past seven years. Louis also was National Coach of the Year in 2007.

Junior College Division III Women
Cesar Plasencia, Cosumnes River College
Powered by two NSCAA All-Americas, Plasencia took his team to the California state championship game and ended the season as the state runner-up with a 16-5-4 record. That marked his third consecutive playoff appearance and improved his career mark to 64-64-25.

High School Boys Division I
Chuck Scanlon, Apple Valley High School (Minn.)
Scanlon led his team to a 24-0 record and the No. 5 spot in the final NSCAA boys fall rankings. This season he also set the Minnesota state record for career wins, surpassing the 500-win plateau in mid-September. In 34 years as a high school coach, he has a career record of 518-87-49.

High School Boys Division II
Paul Beggin, Mahtomedi High School (Minn.)
Beggin led his team to its first Minnesota Class A state title, posting a record of 17-3-3. He was the 2006 NSCAA Midwest Regional Coach of the Year, the last time his team reached the state finals. He has been the Mahtomedi coach since starting the program in 1982.

High School Boys Private/Parochial
Craig Ewing, St. Thomas Aquinas High School (Kan.)
Ewing led his team to a 21-0 record and the No. 1 ranking in the final NSCAA national ranking. The Saints picked up their seventh consecutive Kansas boys state championship, their 13th overall. This is Ewing’s first boys National Coach of the Year award after having earning the girls award in 1995 and 2005. His girls teams have won nine Kansas state titles.

High School Girls Division I
Judson Hamby, Parkview High School (Ga.)
A two-time NSCAA Regional Coach of the Year, Hamby led his girls to their third consecutive Georgia 5A state title with a 22-1 record. Along the way they compiled a 43-game winning streak extending back to the prior season. Parkview has won five of the last seven Georgia large-school state championships.

High School Girls Division II
Claire Collins, Broad Run High School (Va.)
Under Collins’ direction, Broad Run went 23-0-1 last spring for its second consecutive undefeated season and became the first girls team to repeat as state AA champions. Her team has a 47-0-1 record the last two years and in the past three years recorded 50 shutouts while outscoring their opponents 308-32. Collins also was National Coach of the Year in 2004.

High School Girls Private/Parochial
Christopher Martinelli, Madison Edgewood High School (Wis.)
Martinelli’s 2009 team won the school’s first state championship while posting a 19-4-3 record. That improved his career record to 141-101-31 in 14 seasons at Edgewood. In addition to coaching successful teams, Martinelli also serves on the board of directors for the Wisconsin Soccer Coaches Association.

Youth Boys
Dominic Wren, Discoveries Soccer Club, South Carolina
Wren has been associated with Discoveries since 1998, when he started coaching a U-11 team while playing at Winthrop University. Currently a teacher in Rock Hill, S.C., he coached the 90 Green Premier team to the 2009 USYS U18 Boys National Championship. The 2009 SCYSA Coach of the Year, he also is the 2009 High School Boys Large School Coach of the Year for the South region.

Youth Girls
David “Smitty” Smith, Challenge Soccer Club, Houston, Texas
Smith returns to Challenge after seven years developing the Lonestar Soccer Club in Austin. He spent four years as an assistant coach for the U.S. Women’s U-19 National Team and was on the staff of the 2002 FIFA Women’s World Cup winner. In November 2002, he took the reins of U.S. Women’s U-17 National Team. Approximately 240 of his former players advanced to intercollegiate play, with 15 named to U.S. national teams or Youth All-America teams.

Glenn “Mooch” Myernick College Assistant Coach of the Year
Colin Clarke, University of Tulsa
Clarke just concluded his seventh season at Tulsa, as the Golden Hurricane posted a 15-5-2 overall record, captured the Conference USA regular season and tournament titles for the third consecutive season and advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals. He has helped Tulsa to 87 wins and five NCAA tournament appearances and has helped coach three All-Americas and 29 all-conference players.

High School Assistant Coach of the Year
Lester Hager, Francis Howell North High School (Mo.)
A long-time NSCAA member, Hager has been involved as all levels of the game and since 2001 has been the assistant coach at Francis Howell North. Working with the team’s goalkeepers, he has developed four all-conference performers and an all-state selection who went on to earn collegiate All-America honors. A two-time NSCAA Regional Coach of the year, he also helped found the Missouri State High School Soccer Coaches Association and organizes the annual state all-star game.

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