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Cowley College

Cowley College Athletics
 125 S. 2nd St., P.O. Box 1147 Arkansas City, KS 67005
NJCAA Kansas Midwest
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Roberto Dos Santos

After 10 seasons as the head men’s soccer coach at Cowley College, Roberto Dos Santos made the transition to serve as head coach of the women’s soccer team during the 2018 season.


Dos Santos previously coached the women’s soccer team at Cowley College in its inaugural season and helped the Lady Tigers to a respectable record of 8-9. His presence helped Cowley win two more conference games than the previous season in his return to coaching the Lady Tigers.


During the 2019 season, Dos Santos led the squad to what was then its most successful season in the history of the program. The Lady Tigers would finish the season with a record of 14-4. The 14 wins were a then school-record. Cowley also captured its first-ever conference title and won its first-ever playoff game during the 2019 season.


In his third year back with the team, Cowley made it back-to-back conference titles and finished with a record of 10-3-1.


This past season, Dos Santos helped the Lady Tigers win a third straight conference title and finish with a record of 15-1-2.


Prior to returning to coach the women’s soccer team, Dos Santos led the Tiger men’s soccer team to back-to-back second place finishes in the conference during the 2016 and 2017 seasons and finished with a record of 79-68-10 as coach of the men’s team.


He holds a career record of 51-26-6 as head coach of the Lady Tigers.


Prior to coaching at Cowley, Dos Santos spent the previous seven years as the Southwestern College Moundbuilders’ head men’s soccer coach and also spent five of those seasons as the head women’s coach as well.


Dos Santos is a native of Brasilia, Brazil. He came to the United States in 1991 to play soccer at Saint Mary of the Plains College in Dodge City, where he was awarded first-team all-conference and first-team all-region honors. In 1992 he transferred to his alma mater, Bethany College in Lindsborg.


At Bethany, he was a first-team all-conference selection all three years at the school. He capped his collegiate career by being named an all-American in 1994.


In Brazil, Dos Santos played for CR Guara, AA Internacional de Limeira, and Santa Fe FC. In the USA he played in the Premier Development League with the Wichita Jets and Sioux City Breeze.


Prior to coaching at Southwestern, Dos Santos served as assistant coach for the Sioux Falls Spit Fire – PDL team, and was an assistant men’s soccer coach at the University of Evansville. He also served as the head women’s coach at Bethany College.


Dos Santos has a USSF (United States Soccer Federation) “B” License.


He and his wife, Kirsten, have two boys, Diego, and Gabriel.

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Marcos Ribeiro

Marcos Ribeiro joined Cowley College's coaching staff in the fall of 2022 as an assistant coach for men's and women's soccer. On the men's side, he contributed to the team having the most successful season in program history, reaching the national tournament semi-finals, ending top four in the country, and remaining ranked nationally throughout the entire season. On the women's side, he helped the team to reach the conference playoffs finishing with a record of 9-8.


Marcos was born in Concordia, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Soccer has always been a part of his life since he was a child. Marcos left home at 13 to pursue a soccer career in Brazil, where he played for Concordia Atlético Clube, So Luz de Ijui, and Chapecoense, among others. He also spent time in Europe, playing for Whitehawk F.C. in England and Rayo Cantrabria in Spain.


Ribeiro moved to the United States in 2018 to play for Johnson County Community College, where he was the team captain and led the team in assists. He was selected team MVP in 2018 and Academic Player of the Year in 2019. Marcos was named First Team All-Conference and All-Region throughout both of his seasons at Johnson. He received an associate degree in liberal arts and was named to the NJCAA All-Academic Second Team with a 3.80-3.99 grade point average.


He finished his final two years of college at Baker University, earning a BA in Business and Marketing. Marcos was a prominent player of the squad at Baker, again leading the team in assists. While at Baker, he played semi-professional soccer with Sporting Wichita in the UPSL league, where he was coached by Cowley soccer coaches Ruy Vaz and Tanner Brock.


Marcos previously coached at Sporting Wichita and is currently working to obtain all possible licenses with the US Coaching Education System. Marcos' family still resides in Brazil; he is the middle son of Ederaldo Ribeiro and Sirlei Maria Longo Ribeiro, and he has two sisters, Ana Paula and Julia.

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