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University of Massachusetts/Amherst

UMASS Amherst Athletics
 131 Commonwealth Ave - 248 Boyden Amherst, MA 01003
Division 1 Massachusetts Northeast
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Fran O'Leary

A veteran coach with a history of bringing success to collegiate programs, Fran O'Leary took over as the head coach of the University of Massachusetts men's soccer program prior to the 2015 campaign. O'Leary has experience at multiple levels of collegiate soccer and has spent time coaching at the professional level as well.


In his sixth season in Amherst, O'Leary coached the Minutemen to a 7-2-3 overall record during the 2020 campaign to earn one of 14 at-large bids to the NCAA Tournament on their way to earning a first round bye. UMass earned three First-Team All-Atlantic 10 selections, led by A-10 Rookie of the Year and the league-leading goal scorer in Alec Hughes. Midfielders Yosuke Hanya and Ben Shepherd each ranked ninth in the country in assists while leading the conference in the category. As a squad, UMass has the seventh-ranked scoring offense and ranked 15th nationally in goals and 25th in assists.


The Minutemen earned their fourth straight Atlantic 10 Tournament berth in 2018 to mark just the second time in program history that the feat has been accomplished. UMass had two players selected second-team all-conference to go along with an all-rookie and an all-academic team selection.


In 2017, O’Leary led the Minutemen to both the Atlantic 10 outright regular season title and championship crown as UMass became the first team to accomplish the feat since 1991 on his way to being named the A-10 Coach of the Year. UMass finished the season with a 15-4-3 record, including a 10-2-1 mark at Rudd Field as the Minutemen finished with four all-conference honorees. Along with the all-league honors. O’Leary’s squad picked up multiple individual awards in addition to the all-conference honors, including an United Soccer Coaches All-America Third-Team selection and league rookie of the year.


During his four years at the helm of the Minutemen program, O’Leary’s teams have seen a steady rise during the span while qualifying for the A-10 Tournament all four seasons for the second time in program history, culminating with regular season and tournament league titles in his third season. UMass climbed from five wins in 2015 to seven in 2016 before winning 15 during the 2017 season while posting a 22-8-5 record over the last 35 games dating back to the midway point of the 2016 campaign.


O'Leary has 18 winning campaigns and 268 career victories in 28 years as a college head coach, while averaging almost 10 wins per season. His teams have participated in seven NCAA Tournaments and reached the national semifinals once.


The native of Dublin, Ireland is the 10th head men's soccer coach in UMass history.


Professionally, O'Leary spent two years with Toronto FC in MLS as the Assistant Coach and Director of Player Recruitment. He served as the top assistant coach and Director of Recruitment for Toronto FC of MLS from January 2013 to August 2014. The staff overhauled the roster and saw the team climb form 10th place to third in the Eastern Division during their tenure.


O'Leary served eight seasons as the head coach at Bowdoin College from 2005-2012. He accumulated a record of 74-39-14 with a .638 winning percentage and a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances.


One of the most distinguished coaches in Bowdoin history, his two best seasons in program annals came in 2009 and 2010. The 2009 squad posted an 11-4-2 mark and an NCAA Tournament berth, before following it up with an outstanding 15-2-4 mark in 2010, which included the team's first-ever NCAA Tournament victory and appearance in the Division III Final Four. That group won the NESCAC regular-season title and lost the tourney title game on penalty kicks before its run to the national semifinals.


The 2010 team collected 12-consecutive victories and 11 shutouts on the year.


O'Leary led the George Mason team from 2001-04, collecting 34 victories and mentoring 10 all-conference selections and a pair of Freshman All-America honorees John O'Hara (2001) and Damian O'Rourke (2002). That duo was a big part in helping the Patriots reach the CAA championship game in 2003 following a third-place regular-season finish that marked the highest in six years.


He guided Dartmouth to a 56-48-14 record and two NCAA College Cup appearances in seven seasons from 1994-2000, including a 12-6 record and Ivy League runner-up finish in 2000. Dartmouth was 10-4-4 and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament in 1997 as O'Leary was named Division I Coach of the Year by the New England Intercollegiate Soccer League.


He then took over the Kenyon program in 1992 and compiled a .800 winning percentage with a 32-4-4 mark. He led the Lords to the North Coast Athletic Conference regular-season crowns each season and was named the Co-Coach of the Year in 1992. O’Leary was named the NSCAA Great Lakes Region Coach of the Year after leading Kenyon to its first ever No. 1 national ranking and the 1993 NCAA Semifinals. Mark Phillips set the league points (59) and goals (25) records that season on his way to the Player of the Year accolades.


He got his first head coaching job in 1989 at Division III Elmira College in southern New York. He led the Eagles to a 38-11-2 record over three seasons. He inherited a team with a 3-14 record and turned it around into a 13-4 record his first year.


A graduate of Thomas Edison State University with a Liberal Arts degree, O'Leary began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Boston College form 1986-89 and holds a NSCAA Advanced National Diploma in addition to his UEFA "A" Level License.

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Ben Brewster

Ben Brewster joined his former collegiate head coach Fran O’Leary’s staff at the University of Massachusetts prior to the 2017 season and was promoted to associate head coach in 2019 after playing under O’Leary for three seasons at Bowdoin College during his four-year career from 2010-13.


Brewster helped coach the Minutemen to one of 14 at-large bids to the 2020 NCAA Tournament on their way to a first round bye. The Minutemen earned three first-team all-conference selections, including junior defender Graham Brenner. UMass ranked 15th nationally as a team in goals and 25th in assists, led by Atlantic 10 leading scorer Alec Hughes and assist leaders Yosuke Hanya and Ben Shepherd.


In his first season as an associate head coach, Brewster helped the Minutemen lead the Atlantic 10 in goals against average at 0.93 while ranking inside the top-30 nationally in the category. Brewster's first two seasons saw the Minutemen qualify for the Atlantic 10 Tournament while UMass claimed both the A-10 regular season and tournament titles to become the first team in the league to accomplish the feat since 1991. In 2018, Brewster helped the Minutemen reach their fourth consecutive A-10 Tournament, marking the second time in program history that Minutemen reached the conference post-season in four straight seasons.


At Bowdoin, Brewster was a two-time team captain during his senior and junior seasons and capped off his stellar career by being named a NSCAA First-Team All-American in 2013 after earning all-region and first-team all-conference honors in his final two seasons. A two-time Team MVP, Brewster helped Bowdoin advance to the Division III Final Four in San Antonio, Texas while being named the NESCAC Rookie of the Year in 2010. In addition to his accomplishments on the pitch, Brewster was a first-team all-region and all-conference honoree and an all-America honorable mention selection for the Bowdoin Men’s Lacrosse team. Brewster earned multiple Bowdoin College awards during his collegiate career as he earned the Bowdoin Men’s Soccer George Levine Memorial Award for sportsmanship, valor and desire in 2011 and 2013 while earning the Sid Watson Award that is presented yearly to the student-athlete who has distinguished themselves through athletic performance and leadership of multiple teams at Bowdoin in 2013-14.


Brewster began his professional career with the Seacoast United Phantoms of the Premier Development League (PDL) in 2014, where he was a team captain in 2014 for a team that posted an 11-1-2 record on their way to winning the Northeast Division. In 2015, he signed with the Tulsa Roughnecks of the United Soccer League, starting 19 games and ranking eighth on the squad in minutes played. Brewster played for San Francisco FC in the PDL in 2016-17 as a team captain while beginning his coaching career as the head coach at The Bay School of San Francisco in 2016, where he led the varsity boys’ team to their first NCS playoff berth and win since the 2012 season.


A native of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Brewster graduated from Bowdoin College in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. Brewster holds a National C coaching license from the United States Soccer Federation.

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Jacob Reimers

Head coach Fran O’Leary announced the addition of Jacob Reimers to the coaching staff as the goalkeeper coach in March of 2022.


Reimers joined the Minutemen following time spent at Longwood as an assistant coach and a player. As a coach, Reimers performed training sessions for goalkeepers and managed video performance analysis for the keepers. Reimers also spent time as the ACGK 2020 Goalkeeping Coach, where he worked on youth goalkeeping development programs in affiliation with USL1 side and provided private functional training for multiple age groups.


Prior to joining the coaching ranks, Reimers was a four-year starter and three-year team captain for Longwood and finished second in the Big South in saves as a sophomore in 2018. Reimers also made the Dean’s List four times.


Reimers graduated from Longwood with a master’s degree in Business Administration: Data Analytics and received his undergraduate degree in business administration.

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