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Grant Landy

Head Women's Soccer Coach

gl127@humboldt.edu

707-826-5940

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Grant Landy is entering his third season as head coach for Cal Poly Humboldt after guiding his 2022 team to their first postseason berth since 2006. The Lumberjacks finished last season with a record of 7-5-6, which was good for 5th place in the CCAA, a huge leap forward from their 12th place finish in 2021. Landy will be entering his 27th season coaching women’s soccer at both the NCAA Division II and NAIA levels. 

In the final game of the 2022 regular season, the Lumberjacks defeated rival Chico State 1-0 and clinched a spot in the CCAA tourament for the first time in 17 seasons. With this victory, Landy also recorded his 400th career win as a head coach. 

Since his arrival in 2020, Landy has coached one Second-Team All-CCAA player, three CCAA Honorable Mention players, and a total of 44 CCAA All-Academic members. In the Fall of 2022, Landy's team posted a 3.29 GPA.

Prior to Humboldt, Landy was the head coach at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon where he led the Cavaliers to a combined 390-86-36 (.796) record during his 23-year tenure.  During his time in the NAIA, Landy’s teams captured 17 conference championships in 18 seasons, claimed three NAIA Region I titles, and made 14 consecutive trips to the NAIA National Tournament.  During those 14 years, Concordia played for the national title four times, made seven appearances in the Final Four and advanced to 11 quarterfinal rounds Grant’s success on the field is matched by his student-athletes’ in the classroom as 95% of his student-athletes graduate. 

In 2013, the Cavaliers won the NAIA national championship and Landy was named the NAIA National Coach of the Year.  He currently ranks third all-time for most wins in NAIA women’s soccer history.

In 2015, Concordia transitioned to NCAA Division II.  Landy’s five-year run in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) and NCAA Division II included a 59-24-11 overall record, one conference tournament championship, one regular-season conference title and two appearances in the NCAA II national tournament. 

In the Spring of 2020, Landy was inducted into the Concordia University Athletics Hall of Fame.

After posting 10-4-3 and 11-4-3 records in 2015 and 2016, Landy’s 2017 team broke through. Landy guided the Cavaliers to Concordia's first-ever GNAC regular season title in the last game of the season, defeating defending national champion Western Washington 2-0 in Bellingham.  The win snapped a 39-game win streak for WWU including 30 straight wins at home.  The Cavaliers would make history later that season, becoming the school’s first program to qualify for a NCAA Division II national championship.  The Cavaliers defeated Chico State 3-0 in the first round but lost 2-1 to UC San Diego in round two.  They finished the season ranked #19 in the nation with a 16-4-1 record.

In 2018, Landy guided the Cavaliers to the program’s first-ever GNAC tournament title and the league's automatic berth to the NCAA Division II Women's Soccer Championship.  With a #2 regional seed, Concordia hosted the first two rounds of nationals in Portland, defeating Seattle Pacific 2-1 and losing to WWU 3-2 in the second round, dashing any hopes of playing for their first West Region title.  The 2018 team finished with a 15-2-3 overall record and #21 final national ranking.

Landy began his coaching career in Eugene, Oregon, after a four-year playing career at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where he received a B.A. in political science with a concentration in journalism. He led the Mustangs to NCAA Division II National Tournaments in 1987 and 1989 and was a two-time all-conference midfielder. He played professionally in Germany in 1991 and with the Portland Firebirds in 1995. After four years of coaching in the Eugene high school and club ranks, Landy moved to an assistant coach with the University of Oregon’s women’s soccer program in 1996 before taking the job at Concordia in 1997.

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