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Veteran coach Perry takes over MC
men’s soccer
Release Date: May 16, 2006
 MONMOUTH,
Ill. — Monmouth College has hired George Perry to serve as its head
men’s soccer coach, effective immediately.
Perry, who will also serve as director of intramural programs, comes
to Monmouth from Rockford College, where he was in the process of
reviving a program with low participation.
The veteran coach with nearly three decades of sideline experience
will get right to work on the current recruiting class at Monmouth,
and the college’s athletic director, Dr. Terry Glasgow, is pleased
with the program’s new direction.
“We wanted to bring in a head coach who not only knows soccer – as
George Perry clearly does – but who also could commit to being on
campus and being accessible to our student-athletes outside of
practices and games,” said Glasgow. “This search took time, but we
feel very satisfied by the end result. We are confident George Perry
will produce a first-class men’s soccer program.”
“When I was at my first head coaching position at the University of
Rochester, I was only interested in moving up the ladder,” said
Perry, who led that program from 1983-88. “Over time, I have grown
to embrace the Division III environment of the student-athlete, and
I enjoy working with the students who are a part of the soccer
program, as well as the other students I am in contact with through
student life.”
Before taking over at Rochester, Perry was an assistant coach at his
alma mater, Indiana University. He left Rochester to serve as head
coach at St. Bonaventure from 1989-94, and he also coached Wabash
College from 2000-04. Along the way, Perry has also served as an
Olympic Development Program (ODP) coach in New York and Indiana.
Perry holds several coaching credentials from the National Soccer
Coaches Association of America (NSCAA), including its 2003 Mike
Berticelli Excellence in Coaching Education Award. He presently
serves on the advisory committee to the NSCAA’s Director of Coaching
and is on the national advisory board for the American Youth Soccer
Organization. He has contributed his expertise to several coaching
DVDs, as well as the book “The Soccer Coaching Bible.”
Perry and his wife, Ellen, have four children, ranging in age from
10 to 21.
Men's Soccer
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