Len Renery Explained

Len C. Renery
Birth Date:11 September 1949
Youthyears1:1968–1971
Years1:1972
Years2:1973–1974
Years3:1975
Years4:1976
Years5:1977
Years6:1978–1979
Years7:1979–1980
Years8:1980
Years9:1980
Years10:1980–1981
Clubs7:New York Arrows (indoor)
Clubs8:Detroit Lightning (indoor)
Clubs10:San Francisco Fog (indoor)
Caps2:31
Caps3:20
Caps4:15
Caps5:18
Caps6:40
Caps7:7
Caps8:9
Caps10:18
Goals2:1
Goals3:1
Goals4:0
Goals5:1
Goals6:0
Goals7:0
Goals8:4
Goals10:3
Manageryears1:1985–1995
Managerclubs1:Sacred Heart Preparatory
Manageryears2:1997–2007
Managerclubs2:Menlo College

Len Renery is a retired English-American professional soccer defender and coach.

Renery moved to the United States when he was 13 years old, lived in Neptune Township, New Jersey and graduated from Neptune High School in 1966, where he was a varsity baseball and soccer player.[1] In 2010, Neptune High School inducted Renery into its Athletics Hall of Fame. [2]

After a prep year at Suffield Academy in Connecticut, Renery entered Columbia University where he played on the men's soccer team from 1968 to 1971.[3] He was a 1969 and 1970 first-team All Ivy.[4] [5] He graduated in 1971 and was inducted into the Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2015.[6]

In 1972, he played for the expansion New Jersey Brewers of the American Soccer League.[7] He signed with the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League in 1973. Renery finished his career in the Major Indoor Soccer League with the San Francisco Fog in 1981.

Photos, newspaper clippings and team jerseys from his years with the ASL, NASL and MISL can be found at NASLJerseys.com.[8]

Renery coached Sacred Heart Preparatory in Atherton, California from 1985 to 1995.[9] In May 1996, he became head coach of the Menlo College men's team.[10] He spent ten years at Menlo.

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/145450108/ "A player way ahead of his time"
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDfrVUcQ6bc Renery Acceptance Speech - Neptune High School Hall of Fame induction ceremony
  3. http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?&&&DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=204958493 Columbia Lions men's soccer letterwinners
  4. Web site: Men's Ivy League Outstanding Performers . 2009-10-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081206080417/http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/sports/alltime.asp?intSID=4 . 2008-12-06 . dead .
  5. http://m.gocolumbialions.com/mobile/ViewArticle.dbml?atclid=209519315&DB_OEM_ID=9600& Hall of Fame Series: Len Renery ’71CC and Amr Aly ’85CC
  6. http://m.gocolumbialions.com/mobile/ViewArticle.dbml?atclid=319363&DB_OEM_ID=9600& The Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame
  7. http://www.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1972.html The Year in American Soccer - 1972
  8. http://www.nasljerseys.com/Players/R/Renery.Len.htm Len Renery - NASL Jerseys.com
  9. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/05/31/PN64038.DTL Knicks' New Coach Has Local Ties
  10. http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/sports/1996_May_17.sports_shorts.html Sports Shorts