Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (AZ) Men's Soccer

Dan Balaguero takes the helm as the fourth Head Soccer Coach in Eagle history. Balaguero served as the Head Soccer Coach at the University of St. Thomas in Houston during the 2016 season with an 11-7-1 record. Prior to St. Thomas, he served as the Associate Head Soccer Coach at Brown University for one year. During that time bears improved from 5-6-6 in 2014 to 10-5-2 in 2015. His longest coaching tenure was at The University of Texas-Brownsville, a position he held from 2007 to 2015, until the program closed and university was incorporated into the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Under Balaguero, UT-Brownsville went 119-30-11 and won five Red River Conference Champions and appeared in four NAIA National Tournament appearances, including a runner-up finish in 2014. He was the 2014 NAIA Southwest Region Coach of the year and posted the highest winning percentages for NAIA men's soccer in 2010 (17-0-1) and again in 2014 (24-1). Balaguero, a native of England, was an accomplished player before he began coaching. Collegiately he played at Champlain College and was a two-time NJCAA All-American and the 1996 NJCAA Player of the Year. He then transferred to the University of West Virginia, where he was an All-Big East Team member and First Team Regional All-American. He started his coaching career at his alma mater Champlain College from 2000-2003 where he was 27-17-4 with each of his teams competing in the NJCAA region XII playoffs. Balaguero then spent three seasons at Virginia Intermont College where his teams went 52-14-2 and won [NAIA](http://naia.org/) Region XII Championships in 2003 and 2005.