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Sean Topping

Assistant Athletic Director, Head Men's Soccer Coach

seantopping@muhlenberg.edu

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Summary 

• Career record through 2022 season: 207-122-44 (.614) in 20 seasons

• Second all-time winningest coach in Muhlenberg men’s soccer history

• Four Centennial Conference championships

• Five NCAA Tournament bids

• Two NCAA “Sweet 16” appearances

• Two ECAC championships

• Two-time Centennial Conference coach of the year

• Third in CC history with 92 wins in league games

• Coached 77 all-conference selections and nine All-America selections

Coaching Highlights

2022 Record 8-6-8 Centennial Conference Champions

• Won CC championship as fifth seed

• Went on the road three times in six days to claim championship 

• Advanced to second round of NCAA Tournament

• Recorded 200th career win with 4-2 defeat of Juniata

• Coached CC offensive player of the year

2021 Record 10-7-2 ECAC Champions

• Beat top seed in each of tournament's two pods to win second straight title

2020 no season

2019 Record 13-6-2 ECAC Champions

• Outscored four opponents 14-1 to win first ECAC title since 1988

• Team averaged 2.43 goals per game, most since 2003

• Coached Centennial Conference rookie of the year

2018 Record 7-8-2

2017 Record 6-8-3

2016 Record 4-9-3

2015 Record 5-9-2

2014 Record 15-2-3 Centennial Conference Champions, NCAA "Sweet 16"

• Middle Atlantic Region coach of the year

• Centennial Conference coach of the year

• Won CC championship with team picked sixth in preseason poll

• Ranked 12th in final Division III poll

• Coached CC player of the year

2013 Record 10-8-1

• Earned ECAC South Tournament bid

2012 Record 11-5

2011 Record 10-6-1

• Earned CC playoff berth

2010 Record 13-3-6 NCAA "Sweet 16"

• Set school record by going undefeated in first 15 games

• Advanced to CC championship game

• Ranked 12th in final Division III poll

• Outscored opponents 52-14

• Recorded 100th career win with 4-0 shutout of Gettysburg

2009 Record 11-4-2

• Centennial Conference coach of the year

• Won CC regular-season title with 7-1-1 record

• Ranked as high as 18th in Division III

• Coached CC player of the year

2008 Record 12-6-1

• Earned CC playoff berth

2007 Record 12-5

• Finished in three-way tie for CC regular-season title

• Earned at-large bid to NCAA Tournament

2006 Record 8-4-4

• Earned CC playoff berth

2005 Record 13-6 Centennial Conference Champions

• Won CC tournament as third seed

• Ranked as high as 13th in Division III

2004 Record 9-7-3

• Earned CC playoff berth

2003 Record 17-5-1 Centennial Conference Champions

• Went undefeated and untied in the CC

• Reached second round of NCAA Tournament

2002 Record 13-8

• Earned CC playoff berth

Playing Highlights

• Four-year letterwiner for the Mules 

• Co-captain of the 1997 Centennial Conference championship team

• Named to All-CC first team as a back in 1996 and as a midfielder in 1997 

• Earned all-region honors in 1996 and 1997

Coaching Career

• 1999-2000 Assistant coach at Muhlenberg

• 2001 Head coach of men’s and women’s teams at Franklin College in Lugano, Switzerland

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