Brian Dooley, a longtime South
Florida soccer fixture, enters his eighth season as head coach
at Florida Atlantic University and returns to Team Boca as the
Girls U16 White Coach, as well as a trainer in the Girls Academy
Program. In his first seven years at the helm of FAU, coupled
with his previous four-year stint as head coach of Barry
University, have made him one of the most successful collegiate
coaches not only in the Southeast, but the entire NCAA. Ten
times he has guided his teams to 11 or more wins including seven
seasons of 14+ win campaigns.
Since joining FAU, Dooley built
one of the most dominating programs in the Atlantic Sun
Conference. He capped the Owls' final A-Sun Campaign with a 2005
A-Sun Tournament Championship to go with the team's regular
season title and an NCAA College Cup berth, the first in school
history. FAU also led the nation in shutout percentage (16
shutouts in 21 games, .762) in 2005.
The appearance in the A-Sun
Championship was FAU's seventh under Dooley, while the regular
season title was the third in the past four seasons. The Owls
were the only team to make appearances in each of the last seven
A-Sun postseason tournaments.
Dooley enters the 2006 campaign
with a 143-49-10 overall record in his 10 seasons as a NCAA DI
soccer coach. His .733 winning percentage ranks 31st in NCAA
history, 12th among active coaches. In his seven seasons at FAU,
he's averaged nearly 13 wins per season while compiling a record
of 90-37-7 (.698).
Dooley's imprint on the FAU
program has been staggering. His 90 wins in seven years are 50
more than the program had in its first eight seasons (1991-98).
He has coached three A-Sun Players of the Year, 17 First-Team
All-Conference selections, 16 Second-Team All-Conference
selections, one Freshman of the Year and 11 All-Freshman
selections.
From 2000-05 Dooley's teams
compiled a 49-8-2 A-Sun Conference record (.847). In 2002, he
led FAU to its first A-Sun regular season title as the Owls
posted a 10-1-0 conference record. In addition, FAU's 2-0 win at
Gardner-Webb on Nov. 2 gave Dooley 100 career victories.
