Trinity Coach Voted Best In Conference

Pilger Led Bantams To Six-Game Improvement

January 4, 2008

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Trinity College men’s soccer coach Michael Pilger was selected as the 2007 New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Coach of the Year.

Pilger guided the Bantam men’s soccer squad to an 8-7 record and a 5-4 mark in the league, leading Trinity to the NESCAC Championship Tournament for the first time since 2003. The Bantams lost at Williams, 4-2, in the tourney first round.

Trinity improved six games this fall, emerging from a dreadful 2-10-1 record in 2006.

Pilger came to Trinity from Case Western Reserve and the Cleveland Crunch of the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL), after highly successful stints as head coach at the University of Rochester and Kenyon College. Pilger coached the Kenyon men’s soccer team from 1988-1991, leading a previously sub-.500 program to the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament in 1990 and 1991. He was selected as the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Coach of the Year in 1990 and 1991, and the NCAA Division III Great Lakes Region Coach of the Year and National Coach of the Year in 1990 after leading Kenyon to a perfect 18-0 regular season.

Pilger guided the Rochester men’s soccer program to University Athletic Association (UAA) Championship titles and NCAA Tournament bids in 1993, 1995, and 1997 and to ECAC Championship titles in 1994 and 2000. He was selected as the UAA Coach of the Year in 1993 and 1997 and the NCAA Northeast Region Coach of the Year in 1995. Pilger posted records of 57-13-3 at Kenyon and 93-55-20 at Rochester in a total of 13 seasons.

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