INDIANAPOLIS - The UIndy men's soccer team announced Matthew Roop will be the team's next assistant men's soccer coach for the 2025 season.

"We're incredibly excited to add Matthew to our team, his experience at Manchester University and Ohio State speaks volumes about his commitment to excellence," said UIndy men's soccer coach Gabe Hall. "He's going to bring fantastic energy and a relentless work ethic to the program, and we're confident he'll make an immediate impact."

Roop served at his former Alma mater Manchester University, as the men's soccer assistant coach, as well as the head coach for the men's soccer reserve team. In 2023, the Spartans won their first Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC) men's soccer regular season championship since 2003, going unbeaten in conference play (6-0-3), and making an appearance in the HCAC tournament championship game against Rose-Hulman. 

Prior to his time at Manchester, he spent one season at The Ohio State University as a volunteer assistant coach for the 2022 season. In his sole season with the Buckeyes, the team sported an 11-3-6 overall record, while also making a run to the Big Ten Tournament semifinals against Rutgers and making a second round appearance in the NCAA men's soccer tournament against UNC Greensboro. 

He also spent one season as a team manager at the University of Illinois from both their men's and women's soccer teams in 2021. He assisted in the preparation and operations of practice and pregame set up, while he also assisted in video coordination for both the men's and women's teams.

As a student-athlete, Roop was a four-year defender at Manchester University where he earned all HCAC honorable mention twice (2018 and 2019). In his time with the Spartans, Roop appeared in 57 career games, starting all 57 of them, and logging a 2018 class high of 4,652 minutes played in his four year tenure. In those 57 games, he also recorded one career assist against Earlham in his junior season, and was a three-year team captain. 

Along with Roop's distinguished collegiate playing career, he was also named to the Harrison High School Athletics Hall of Fame in part to multiple awards he earned during his playing career including; the C. Eugene Cato Mental Attitude Award, two all-state selections and the Big School Player of the Year award in 2015.

Roop earned his bachelor's in marketing and sport management with a minor in sales in 2020 from Manchester University before graduating with a master's in recreation, sport and tourism in 2022 from the University of Illinois.