| Tom Poitras | |
| Current Title: | Head coach |
| Current Team: | Northern Kentucky Norse |
| Current Conference: | Horizon League |
| Birth Date: | 21 September 1968 |
| Birth Place: | Southington, Connecticut |
| Alma Mater: | Southern Connecticut |
| Player Years1: | 1986–1989 |
| Player Team1: | Southern Connecticut |
| Player Years2: | 1992–1994 |
| Player Team2: | Connecticut Wolves |
| Coach Years1: | 1994–1997 |
| Coach Years2: | 1998–2003 |
| Coach Years3: | 2004–2010 |
| Coach Team3: | UW-Green Bay |
| Coach Years4: | 2011–2021 |
| Coach Team4: | Hartford |
| Coach Years5: | 2022– present |
| Coach Team5: | Northern Kentucky |
| Overall Record: | 250–173–71 |
| Championships: | 2× Northeast 10 Tournament (2000,2002) Horizon League Tournament (2009) |
| Awards: | New England Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year (1996) NSCAA New England Region Coach of the Year (2002) Connecticut Soccer Hall of Fame (2017) |
Tom Poitras is an American soccer coach and is currently the head men's soccer coach at Northern Kentucky University, a position he's held since 2022.
Poitras played collegiate soccer at Southern Connecticut State University. During the 1987 season he was part of the division II national championship team.
From 1994 to 1997, he coached at the University of New Haven where he compiled a 38–32–5 record.
From 1998 to 2003, he served as the head men's soccer coach at Southern New Hampshire University where he posted an 81–25–16 record. His team advanced to four NCAA tournaments, and compiled five 10 win seasons.
His 2009 squad went 14–3–3, and reached the NCAA tournament for the first time in 26 years. During the season, UW-Green Bay had victories against Wisconsin, DePaul, and Butler. The team finished undefeated at home with a 7–0–1 record for the first time in 26 years, and a second place overall finish in the Horizon League. In 2007, his team beat NCAA runner-up Ohio State University in a major upset.
He was hired as head coach at Hartford in April 2011.[1] In 2014 Poitras signed a 5-year contract extension with Hartford.[2] Poitras was inducted into the Connecticut Soccer Hall of Fame in 2017.[3]
He was hired as the 5th head coach in the history of Northern Kentucky's men's soccer program in January 2022.[4]
†NCAA canceled 2020 collegiate activities due to the COVID-19 virus.