Greyhound women's soccer coach Geoff VanDeusen enters his fourth season at UIndy after leading his squad to an NCAA Tournament appearance last season, and earning his 100th victory in 2008. The 16-year collegiate coach (14-year woman's coach) currently holds a record of 121-111-19.
The 2009 season saw VanDeusen's first trip to the NCAA tournament as a Greyhound. His squad amassed an overall record of 15-6-0, and finished fourth in the final GLVC standings on the year, earning its third-consecutive GLVC Tournament berth.
In 2008, five players earned All-GLVC honors under VanDeusen and the team went just under 728 consecutive minutes without giving up a goal. The team advanced to the second round of the GLVC Tournament before losing to nineteenth ranked Northern Kentucky in overtime.
Prior to taking over at UIndy, VanDeusen was head coach at Central Missouri for four years. He led the Jennies to a 12-5-3 record in 2006 and a berth in the NCAA tournament after improving a team that finished with a record of 7-11-1 in his first season at the school.
He also started the program at Missouri Southern State after leading Hastings College and Marycrest to conference titles earlier in his career.
Despite a 1-16-1 record in the inaugural season at Missouri Southern, VanDeusen took the team to the level of contender in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association in three short years. While at Southern, VanDeusen had the task of serving as head coach for two sports, also serving as the mentor for the men's soccer program. He led the Lions to a four-year record of 28-36-1, while leading the Lady Lions to a mark of 27-40-5.
VanDeusen went to Missouri Southern after two seasons (1997 and 1998) at Hastings College, an NAIA school in Hastings, Neb., where he served as head men's soccer coach and admissions counselor. There he was named Nebraska Iowa Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 1997 after leading the Broncos to the conference title.
Before heading to Missouri Southern, VanDeusen also served as head men's and women's soccer coach at Marycrest International University in 1995 and 1996, and as assistant soccer coach and administrative assistant for athletics at Western Illinois University, an NCAA Division I program in Macomb, Ill.
At Marycrest, VanDeusen led both the men's and women's programs to 1996 Midwest Classic Conference championships, 1995 Conference Tournament titles, and the 1995 NAIA Midwest Regional Tournament while being named Midwest Classic Conference Coach of the Year.
VanDeusen earned a bachelor's degree in 1996 from Western Illinois University, and in 1997 claimed an Advanced National Coaching Diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. In May of 2001, he also completed his studies for a master's degree in education from Missouri State University.
As a player, VanDeusen started two years as a goalkeeper for the Leathernecks of Western Illinois after transferring from Trinity College in Deerfield, Ill., where he started as a freshman and sophomore and helped lead the Trojans to a third place finish at the National Christian College Athletic Association National Tournament.
In addition to his collegiate coaching experience, VanDeusen has also worked with the Olympic Development Program at the state level in Iowa and Nebraska, at the regional level in Region I, which is a program designed to identify and develop high-level soccer players throughout the United States. He served on the NCAA Division II National Women's Soccer Committee for five years, serving as chair in both 2003 and 2004 in addition to being the operations manager of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Convention Committee. He has also served as the regional chairman for the All-American selection committee for the NSCAA.
Off the soccer field, VanDeusen and his wife, Caroline, have a 12-year-old son, Geoffrey III, an eight-year-old daughter, Anna, and a three-year-old daughter, Adeline.
