Bobby Muuss | |
Current Title: | Head coach |
Current Team: | Wake Forest Demon Deacons |
Birth Date: | 13 January 1976 |
Birth Place: | East Islip, New York |
Alma Mater: | Southern Connecticut |
Player Years1: | 1995 |
Player Team1: | Southern Connecticut |
Coach Years1: | 1997–2000 |
Coach Team1: | Connecticut (assistant) |
Coach Years2: | 2001–2006 |
Coach Team2: | Wake Forest (assistant) |
Coach Years3: | 2007–2014 |
Coach Team3: | Denver |
Coach Years4: | 2015– |
Coach Team4: | Wake Forest |
Bobby Muuss is an American college soccer coach, currently serving as head coach of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's soccer team.
He played college soccer at Southern Connecticut State.[1]
He was an assistant coach at the University of Connecticut, helping UConn win the 2000 NCAA Championship.[2] [3]
After being an assistant coach at Wake Forest from 2001 to 2006, Muuss was hired to be the head coach at Denver in January 2007.[4] [5] In 2007, Muuss was named Mountain Pacific Sports Federation co-coach of the year,[6] and was named the 2008 MPSF coach of the year.[7] In 2008, Muuss lead Denver to its first-ever MPSF championship and its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1970.[8] In 2013, Denver's first year in the Summit League, Muuss guided the team to a 6–0–0 record in conference play and was named Summit League coach of the year.[9]
Muuss was hired to be the head coach at Wake Forest in January 2015.[10] [11] In 2015, Muuss lead Wake Forest to a consensus No.1 ranking in the national polls and a number one seed in the 2015 NCAA Tournament.[12] He was named the 2015 ACC coach of the year, becoming the fourth coach to win the award in his first year with a program.[13] [14]