Coaches

Nathan Kalin

Nate Kalin enters his fifth season at the helm of Marymount men’s soccer in 2023. He was named the fourth head coach in program history in March 2019.


Kalin has led Marymount to a 33-28-5 mark over his first four seasons and the Saints haven’t had a losing season under his direction. Over his 14-year head coaching career, he holds a 113-113-8 record.


During his tenure at Marymount, Kalin has had 14 All-Conference selections, six All-State selections, and three All-Region selections. He has coached the Atlantic East Rookie of the Year in back-to-back seasons (Leo Torres – 2021, Bayron Banegas – 2022) with Banegas also being named Rookie of the Year by the Virginia Sports Information Directors (VaSID). Kalin and his staff were named Atlantic East Coaching Staff of the Year in both 2019 and 2022.


In 2022, Kalin led the Saints to the best season in program history with a 12-7-1 mark and an Atlantic East championship. Marymount also qualified for the NCAA Tournament and dropped a hard-fought first round matchup 1-0 to Mary Washington, who advanced all the way to the Final Four. The historic season marked the first conference championship and NCAA appearance in program history.


Under Kalin’s direction, Leo Torres has continued to make his mark on the record book. After just two seasons, Torres holds program records (single-season and career) for goals and points. Torres also became just the second MU player since 2001 to score eight points in a game after scoring three goals and two assists against Gallaudet on Oct. 12, 2022.


Additionally, Derek Rivera broke the program’s all-time assists record in 2022 and tied for the single-season assist record. The Saints also broke or tied team records for wins, winning percentage, conference wins, best conference record, longest winning and unbeaten streak, goals scored, fewest goals allowed, and shutouts.


In 2021, he led Marymount to an Atlantic East semifinals appearance for the second straight time. Torres became the first Saint to earn All-Region accolades, adding the distinction to a trophy case that also included Atlantic East Rookie of the Year and VaSID Rookie of the Year.


In Kalin’s first season in 2019, he led Marymount to its first 10-win season in program history with a 10-10-1 record and an appearance in the ECAC Tournament. The Saints fell to Immaculata in penalty kicks in the Atlantic East semifinals.


Prior to his time at Marymount, Kalin spent a season at NCAA D-I Albany as the first assistant on the nationally-ranked men's soccer team. While he was there, he mentored a squad that went to the America East Championship for the second straight season and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament after defeating Maryland in the first round.


He spent the 2016 season at The College of New Rochelle in New York for the inaugural season of the men's soccer team. In just four months, Kalin recruited a team of 15 freshmen that set an NCAA-best record of 16-3 for a first-year program. The team led Division III that season in scoring with 4.3 goals per game, while coaching a freshman that led the country in scoring (30 goals, 20 assists) before being named ECAC Player of the Year and Association of Division 3 Independents (AD3I) National Player of the Year. A record first season also had Kalin named AD3I National Coach of the Year.


The rest of his coaching career was in the Skyline Conference, working with the College of Mount Saint Vincent from 2013-15 and New York University – Polytechnic Institute from 2007-13.


In his first season with MSV, he turned a team that went 2-10-1 the previous season to 12-5-2, the second-best single-season turnaround in NCAA Division III. In his three years with the Dolphins, he posted 33 wins while advancing to the Skyline playoffs in two of the seasons.


His longest tenure at a school was his first head coaching job at Polytech, guiding the program for six seasons, again turning around a struggling history to become a regional contender. He advanced the team to the Skyline playoffs in three of his last four seasons, while posting a program-best mark of 12-5-2 in 2010. He was also named Skyline Coach of the Year in 2009.


Beyond his coaching experience, he was also on several committees for the NCAA including the Regional Advisory Committee and the Soccer Rules Committee.