30-plus year veteran of the college soccer coaching circuit Brett Teach was tabbed as the seventh head coach for Mount St. Mary’s men’s soccer on December 1, 2023. A 10-time conference coach of the year and the 2000 United Soccer Coaches NAIA Coach of the Year, the position is Teach’s sixth venture as a head coach between NCAA and NAIA institutions.

Teach has served as an assistant coach for the VCU Rams since 2010, working under coach Dave Giffard, this past year’s recipient of Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year. Over the last 14 years in Richmond, the Rams won 116 matches, were ranked as high as ninth in the country, and made three NCAA Tournament appearances. Last season, the team won the A10 Regular Season title, going 5-1-2 in conference play.

Under Teach and the staff’s guidance, VCU garnered 63 all-conference honors, including 21 First Team recognitions, and five major conference award winners. Seven athletes were selected in the MLS SuperDraft, with three – Dennis Castillo, Kharlton Belmar, and Jason Johnson – earning experience with MLS clubs.

Before arriving in Richmond, Teach served as a head coach for schools in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, accumulating 280 victories. At the Division I level he worked at Georgia State from 1994-2000, giving the Panthers their first NCAA Tournament appearance by virtue of winning the 1997 Trans America Athletic Conference (now ASUN) Championship. When hired in 1994, Teach was the youngest head coach of a Division I program.

His most recent head coaching job was at Tusculum from 2007-2009, winning the conference each season and making it to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Division II Soccer Championship in 2008. Additional stops include Auburn University Montgomery, winning 139 matches from 2000-07, and stops at Oglethorpe University and La Grange College at the beginning of his career. Across his NAIA positions, he has coached teams to four national finals, five semifinals, and eight quarterfinals. In each of his seasons at AUM, Teach received at least one Coach of the Year recognition, including a NSCAA/Adidas NAIA National Coach of the Year Award in 2000.

Alongside collegiate tenure, Teach has decades of experience for clubs and development programs. He serves as a teacher for United Soccer Coaches, helping prospective mentors earn licenses, and from 1987-2010, he served as a staff coach for Region III of the Olympic Development Program. Further positions include Capital City Streaks Soccer Club, Metro North Soccer Association, Stone Mountain Soccer and Teaching Soccer Inc.

Teach is a 1986 graduate of King University in Tennessee, where he played goalkeeper for the Tornadoes and was inducted to the Athletic Hall of Fame in 2006. Auburn University Montgomery inducted him as a coach in 2013.

THE TEACH FILE

Season  

Record

Conference (1994-pres.)

Notes

1989

11-6

Best season in program history; also coached women’s team

Totals

11-6

At LaGrange

1990

4-11-2

1991

9-7

Program’s First Ever Winning Record

1992

12-7-2

SAC Coach of the Year

1993

9-7-2

Totals

34-32-6

At Oglethorpe

1994

7-10

3-5

1995

7-11-1

1-7

1996

7-11

3-5

1997

9-11-1

4-3-1

TACC Tournament Champions (Now ASUN)

TACC Coach of the Year

1998

7-12

2-5

1999

6-11-1

3-3

Totals

43-66-3

16-28-1

At Georgia State

2000

23-2

5-0

NAIA Finalist

Southern States Athletic Conference Champions

NSCAA National Coach of the Year/SSAC COY

2001

23-3-1

5-0

NAIA Finalist, SSAC Champions

NSCAA Southeast Coach of the Year/SSAC COY

2002

20-2-1

5-0

NAIA Final Four, SSAC Champions

NSCAA Southeast Coach of the Year/SSAC COY

2003

14-3-3

6-0

SSAC Champions

NAIA Region 13 Coach of the Year

2004

20-5

9-1

NAIA Finalist, SSAC Champions

SSAC Coach of the Year

2005

23-2    

9-0

NAIA Elite Eight, SSAC Champions

NSCAA Southeast Coach of the Year/SSAC COY

2006

16-4-1

8-0

NAIA Elite Eight, SSAC Champions

NSCAA Southeast Coach of the Year/SSAC COY

Totals

139-21-6

47-1

At Auburn University Montgomery 

2007

11-9-2

5-1-1

NCAA Tournament

South Atlantic Conference Champions

SAC Coach of the Year

2008

20-3-1

6-1-1

NCAA Elite Eight

SAC Champions

NSCAA South Coach of the Year/SAC COY

2009 

10-6-2

4-4

Totals

41-18-5

15-6-2

At Tusculum

Overall

268-143-20

78-35-3