Dennis Currier Position: Head Coach Experience: 5th Season Alma Mater: Southern Mississippi (1992)

With a disciplined, attacking style of soccer, Dennis Currier builds succesful programs everywhere he coaches.

The most recent evidence: Currier and the Flyers raised the 2008 Atlantic 10 Men's Soccer Championship trophy and advanced to the NCAA Tournament, culminating one of the most extraordinary seasons in University of Dayton men's soccer history. His UD squad went 15-4-3 overall, claimed the Atlantic 10 Tournament championship, earned UD's first-ever berth to the NCAA Men's Soccer Tournament and finished No. 1 in the NSCAA/adidas® Middle Atlantic Regional Rankings and No. 19 in the national rankings. During the course of the season, the Flyers also won two tournaments, beat No. 15 Saint Louis - a first for the program - in the midst of a six-game unbeaten streak to start A-10 play.

In addition to breaking the record for wins in a single season, Dayton tied the school record for goals scored in a season (46). The Flyers racked up more honors during the season than any team in UD history, including Dayton's first ever consideration for the Hermann Trophy Award in Alex Torda. For Dayton, 10 players amassed 27 postseason honors. On top of that, the Flyers have earned the NSCAA/adidas Team Academic Award for the past two seasons.

With a 42-22-13 record at Dayton over the previous four seasons, Currier is fourth on the all-time wins list. He has produced the Flyers' impressive results on and off the field based on the principals of dedication, a commitment to excellence, discipline and open communication with his players.

Four former Flyers under Currier's reign have played professionally in North America and Europe. Dasan Robinson, who was drafted and signed with the Chicago Fire of the MLS, also was invited to the U.S. National Team tryouts.

Other Flyers in the professional ranks include Omar Jarun who was drafted by the USL's Atlanta Silverbacks, Terry Alvino, who earned a starting role for the USL's Minnesota Thunder, and Lubo Bogdanov who signed with Cheml in the first division of the Czech Republic.

The Flyers have enjoyed home field dominance under Currier's direction. UD went 9-0-0 in 2008 and 7-0-2 in 2007 at Baujan Field. Dayton is currently on a 20-game unbeaten streak (17-0-3) on their home turf that dates back to Oct. 28, 2006.

Players have excelled with Currier as their mentor as 11 different Flyers have earned some form of postseason honors.

Currier helped Dayton finish the 2007 season 10-4-5 overall and advance to the opening round of the 2007 Atlantic 10 Men's Soccer Championship. Using an old-fashioned method of hard-work, team play and good defense, the Flyers finished the season on a six-game unbeaten streak, had two players selected to the All-Atlantic 10 and NSCAA/adidas®Middle Atlantic Region teams and finished No. 8 in the regional rankings.

In 2006 Currier led the Flyers to a 6-9-2 record and 2-5-2 mark in the Atlantic 10 Conference. The Flyers started the season with three shutout losses and then four shutout wins. A six-game losing streak preceded the season-ending unbeaten streak. Despite the roller-coaster ride, freshman defender Ryan Handbury, earned a spot on the All-Atlantic 10 Honorable Mention Team.

In his first year as UD's coach, Currier led the Flyers to an 11-5-4 overall record in 2005, finishing tied for second in the Atlantic 10. Currier, named UD's head coach on January 24, 2005, opened the 2005 season with a 2-1 exhibition win over No. 18 Ohio State. The Flyers also won their season opener, 3-2, at Cincinnati and won both games of their home tournament, the Dayton Marriott Flyer Classic. Currier charged his team with continuing the Flyers' excellence at its home facility and the team responded with a 6-1-1 record at Baujan Field in 2005.

He guided the Flyers to a six-game unbeaten streak in conference play, enabling UD to grab a tie for second in the conference. UD then rolled over Charlotte in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic 10 Championship, 3-1, before a 1-1 draw with Saint Louis that saw the Flyers eliminated on penalty kicks, 5-4. Four of Currier's Flyers earned All-Conference honors in the Atlantic 10 in 2005.

As head coach of Incarnate Word for four seasons, Currier's squads racked up a record of 62-15-7. His first team at UIW in 2001 was 12-8-1, and won the first of four straight conference championships. In 2002, Currier guided the team to a 16-1-3 record, a No. 12 national ranking and the school's first NCAA tournament bid.

In 2003, UIW was 16-2-2, returned to the NCAA tournament and was ranked 10th in the nation. In 2004 the team finished the season ranked fifth nationally with a record of 18-4-1 and a first-ever trip to the NCAA Tournament's round of eight.

In addition to the four conference titles, Currier's teams were ranked No. 2 in the region three times. He guided Incarnate Word to a school-record 34-game regular-season unbeaten streak from 2001 to 2003. His teams had the highest grade point average in the conference two of his four seasons at UIW.

Currier has coached eight NSCAA All-Americans, three NSCAA Scholar All-Americans, three conference Players of the Year, a conference tournament Most Outstanding Player and he recruited three players who went on to be named conference Freshmen of the Year.

Before his stop at Incarnate Word, Currier coached for seven seasons at Harris-Stowe State College in Saint Louis, Mo., where he amassed a 126-34-5 record. Harris-Stowe was ranked nationally from 1996 to 2000, and advanced as far as the 2000 NAIA national semifinals. While at Harris-Stowe, Currier was named Regional Coach of the Year three times.

During his 16-year career, Currier's coaching record stands at 230-71-26.

Off the field, Currier and the Flyers are actively involved in the Miami Valley community. The Flyers mentor students in elementary school, give free soccer lessons and visit patients at children's hospitals.

Currier is a 1992 graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. He and his wife Tonya are the parents of two daughters: Sydney and Morgan Elizabeth.

Dennis Currier's Career Record