Marymount University Men's Soccer

Nate Kalin enters his seventh season at the helm of Marymount men’s soccer in 2025. He was named the fourth head coach in program history in March 2019.   Kalin has led Marymount to a 54-40-13 mark over his first five seasons and the Saints haven’t had a losing season under his direction. Prior to the 2024 season, Kalin held a 123-120-21 record in 15 seasons as a head coach.    During his tenure at Marymount, Kalin has had 22 All-Conference selections, nine All-State selections, and seven All-Region selections. He has coached the Atlantic East Rookie of the Year in back-to-back seasons (Leo Torres – 2021, Bayron Banegas – 2022) with Banegas also being named Rookie of the Year by the Virginia Sports Information Directors (VaSID), then adding another in Jefferson Lopez Coreas in 2024. Kalin and his staff were named Atlantic East Coaching Staff of the Year in both 2019 and 2022.  Under Kalin's leadership, the Saints finished the 2024 season with an 11-5-5 record, going unbeaten in conference action at 5-0-1, earning the top seed in the Atlantic East Conference Tournament. Marymount ultimately fell in the Championship to Neumann. At the end of the season, Leonardo Torres was named the AEC Player of the Year for the third-straight season, with Jefferson Lopez Coreas earning Rookie of the Year laurels.  Erick Shoetter-Rojas and Alex Rendon Benitez garnered All-Conference selections, as well.  Shoetter-Rojas and Torres were both named to All-Region and All-State teams.  Marymount finished the 2023 campaign with a 10-7-3 mark, narrowly falling in overtime to the eventual conference champion Neumann in the Atlantic East semifinals. Three Saints were named First Team All-Conference with Torres and Carlos Varona also being named All-Region selections. During the regular season, Marymount topped Catholic for the first time since 2007 with a 3-2 win at Long Bridge Park on Sept. 27.  Under Kalin’s direction, Leo Torres has continued to make his mark on the record book. After three seasons, Torres holds program records (single-season and career) for goals and points. Torres also became just the second MU player since 2001 to score eight points in a game after scoring three goals and two assists against Gallaudet on Oct. 12, 2022.   In 2022, Kalin led the Saints to the best season in program history with a 12-7-1 mark and an Atlantic East championship. Marymount also qualified for the NCAA Tournament and dropped a hard-fought first round matchup 1-0 to Mary Washington, who advanced all the way to the Final Four. The historic season marked the first conference championship and NCAA appearance in program history.   Additionally, Derek Rivera broke the program’s all-time assists record in 2022 and tied for the single-season assist record. The Saints also broke or tied team records for wins, winning percentage, conference wins, best conference record, longest winning and unbeaten streak, goals scored, fewest goals allowed, and shutouts.   In 2021, he led Marymount to an Atlantic East semifinals appearance for the second straight time. Torres became the first Saint to earn All-Region accolades, adding the distinction to a trophy case that also included Atlantic East Rookie of the Year and VaSID Rookie of the Year.   In Kalin’s first season in 2019, he led Marymount to its first 10-win season in program history with a 10-10-1 record and an appearance in the ECAC Tournament. The Saints fell to Immaculata in penalty kicks in the Atlantic East semifinals.   Prior to his time at Marymount, Kalin spent a season at NCAA D-I Albany as the first assistant on the nationally-ranked men's soccer team. While he was there, he mentored a squad that went to the America East Championship for the second straight season and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament after defeating Maryland in the first round.   He spent the 2016 season at The College of New Rochelle in New York for the inaugural season of the men's soccer team. In just four months, Kalin recruited a team of 15 freshmen that set an NCAA-best record of 16-3 for a first-year program. The team led Division III that season in scoring with 4.3 goals per game, while coaching a freshman that led the country in scoring (30 goals, 20 assists) before being named ECAC Player of the Year and Association of Division 3 Independents (AD3I) National Player of the Year. A record first season also had Kalin named AD3I National Coach of the Year.   The rest of his coaching career was in the Skyline Conference, working with the College of Mount Saint Vincent from 2013-15 and New York University – Polytechnic Institute from 2007-13.   In his first season with MSV, he turned a team that went 2-10-1 the previous season to 12-5-2, the second-best single-season turnaround in NCAA Division III. In his three years with the Dolphins, he posted 33 wins while advancing to the Skyline playoffs in two of the seasons.   His longest tenure at a school was his first head coaching job at Polytech, guiding the program for six seasons, again turning around a struggling history to become a regional contender. He advanced the team to the Skyline playoffs in three of his last four seasons, while posting a program-best mark of 12-5-2 in 2010. He was also named Skyline Coach of the Year in 2009.   Beyond his coaching experience, he was also on several committees for the NCAA including the Regional Advisory Committee and the Soccer Rules Committee.

Joshua Slager joins the Atlantic East Champion Marymount men's soccer team as the new graduate assistant coach ahead of the 2023 season.  Slager comes to MU after a four-year playing career at Franklin & Marshall College, where he played in a total of 29 matches, making 12 starts for the Diplomats. During his senior season, he was a part of six of the Diplomats' shutouts as a starter. He was selected to the Centennial Conference All-Sportsmanship Team in 2022. A two-time member of the Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll, Slager completed his degree in May of 2023 before making his way to Marymount. He brings coaching experience to the blue and white, having coached for the DC Youth Futbol Club from 2016-2020 and Achilles FC 2020-present.  [Skip Ad](https://marymountsaints.com/sports/mens-soccer/roster/coaches/joshua-slager/504#footer)

Tim Timchenko enters his first season for the Saints as the Graduate Assistant Men's Soccer Coach. A four-year student-athlete at NCAA Division I Iona University, Timchenko brings a decorated career to Marymount. Timchenko was named Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year in both his junior and senior seasons, as well as All-MAAC First Team and ALL-ECAC. He was also named All-MAAC Second Team as a sophomore. During his senior season, Iona won the MAAC Conference Championship over Rider and made an appearance in the NCAA Tournament, with Timchenko earning All-Championship Team honors. Timchenko was a three-time member of the MAAC All-Academic Team. Prior to his time at Iona, Timchenko played scholastically at High Mowing School and Pioneer Academy and was featured on the New York Red Bull II roster. 

Entering the 2024-25 school year, Bill Reno will serve as the goalkeeper coach for Marymount University men’s and women’s soccer programs. Before joining Marymount (where Reno coached in the spring of 2024,) Reno was the goalkeeper coach and recruiting coordinator for the women’s soccer teams at UMBC (2024-25) and George Washington University (2022-2024). Reno's coaching journey began graduation where they served as Denton High School’s goalkeeper coach, working under Scott Heffley. Following that stint, Reno went on to work with Brian Dooley at Arkansas State in their first collegiate position, before heading south to Ouachita Baptist to coach under head coach Kevin Wright. At OBU, Reno recruited Erin Webster, who would later be named to the GAC All-Decade team in 2020. Following a short stint with Texas Women’s University and Texas Spirit Soccer Club, and working alongside club director Sid Koury, Reno moved to Tennessee, working primarily as a goalkeeper coach in the Memphis area with Gareth Munro and Shawn Loth. Building off their time in Memphis, Reno would join the University of Connecticut men’s team for their 2021 season, coaching future professional goalkeepers Jahmali Waite and Gianluca Catalano during Head Coach Ray Reid’s last season with the Huskies. From 2022-2024, Reno transitioned into a larger role at George Washington University where head coach Michelle Demko brought Reno in to oversee GW’s recruiting efforts, in addition to working with the goalkeepers. Their last stop before Marymount was at UMBC, where Reno and assistant coach Hailey Williams were brought in for the 2024 season. Reno oversaw a strong core of goalkeepers that worked in tandem to defend the Retrievers’ net. As a former goalkeeper, Reno played at Texas A&M and Harding University, setting school records at Harding. Through their time as a player and coach, Reno gained an “obsession with empowering goalkeepers to identify their own style, and to lean into their unique strengths.” Through this identification process, Reno emphasizes “the ability for players to work collaboratively with their teammates by utilizing their individual strengths”. In addition to creating goalkeeper content online for ESPN, Paste Magazine, and Everybody Soccer, Reno has enjoyed varied stints with FC Cincinnati (first team video analyst), Houston Dynamo (freelance goalkeeping analytics), Camp Shutout, and Dynasty Goalkeeping. Whenever Reno is not coaching, they enjoy watching The Great British Bake Off with his wife (Ali), walking their dogs (Jack Jack and Lola), and listening to punk music.