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Dennis Currier University of Dayton Men's Head Soccer Coach  Alma Mater: Southern Mississippi (1992)
In his first year as the men's soccer head coach Dennis Currier led the University of Dayton to a 11-5-4 record in 2005, finishing tied for second in the Atlantic 10 Conference.
Currier, named UD's head coach on January 24, 2005, opened the 2005 season with a 2-1 exhibition win over No. 18 Ohio State. The Flyers also won their season opener, 3-2, at Cincinnati and won both games of their home tournament, the Dayton Marriott Flyer Classic. Currier charged his team with continuing the Flyers excellence at its home field and the team responded with a 6-1-1 record at Baujan Field in 2005.
He guided the Flyers to a six-game unbeaten streak in conference play, enabling UD to grab a tie for second in the conference. UD then rolled over Charlotte in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic 10 Championship, 3-1, before a 1-1 draw with Saint Louis that saw the Flyers eliminated on penalty kicks, 5-4.
Four of Currier's Flyers earned All-Conference honors, including Terry Alvino, who transferred to Dayton for his senior season to follow coach Currier from his previous stop, the University of Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas.
As head coach of Incarnate Word for four seasons, Currier's squads racked up a 62-15-7. His first team at UIW in 2001 was 12-8-1, and won the first of four straight conference championships. In 2002, Currier guided the team to a 16-1-3 record, a #12 national ranking and the school's first NCAA tournament bid. In 2003, UIW was 16-2-2, returned to the NCAA tournament and was ranked 10th in the nation. In 2004 the team finished the season ranked fifth nationally with a record of 18-4-1 and a first-ever trip to the NCAA tournament's round of eight.
In addition to the four conference titles, Currier's teams were ranked #2 in the region three times. He guided Incarnate Word to a school-record 34-game regular-season unbeaten streak from 2001 to 2003. His teams had the highest GPA in the conference two of his four seasons at UIW.
He coached eight NSCAA All-Americans, two NSCAA Scholar All-Americans, three conference Players of the Year and recruited three players who went on to be named conference Freshmen of the Year.
"My philosophy is to attack, attack, and attack some more," Currier said at his hiring. "We will ask our players for a full commitment on the field and in the classroom. When they give that commitment, the results that follow will speak for themselves."
Before his stop at Incarnate Word, Currier coached for seven seasons at Harris-Stowe State College in St. Louis, where he was 126-34-5. Harris-Stowe was ranked nationally from 1996 to 2000, and advanced as far as the 2000 NAIA national semifinals. While at Harris-Stowe, he was named Regional Coach of the Year three times.
His 12-year career coaching record stands at 199-54-16.
Currier is a 1992 graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. He and his wife Tonya are the parents of two daughters: Sydney, who was born in January of 1997, and Morgan Elizabeth, who was born in August of 2002.
Currier has coached eight NSCAA All-Americans, two NSCAA Scholar All-Americans, three conference Players of the Year, 57 academic all-conference student- athletes, 12 of whom were named academic all-region. Thirteen of his players have gone on to play professionally.
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