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Andy Byrne

Andy Byrne

Andy Byrne completed his 31st year as Ithaca College men’s soccer coach in 2014. He owns a record of 301-174-58 and has advanced to NCAA postseason play 11 times. He was the first Bomber men’s soccer coach to reach 200 wins, achieving the milestone in 2002. Byrne reached 300 wins in the 2014 season, hitting the mark in a 1-0 overtime win against Nazareth on Nov. 1, 2014.

Byrne guided the Bombers to a 0-0 draw against nationally-ranked Stevens Institute of Technology in the 2012 Empire 8 Championship game. The tie earned the Bombers co-champion honors and marked the program's first conference title since 2002.  

His teams made nine consecutive playoff appearances from 1985 through 1993, with five of those berths in the NCAA tournament. The veteran coach guided the Bombers to three straight NCAA quarterfinal appearances (1995 to 1997) and a semifinal berth in 1996. The team returned to the NCAA playoffs in 1999 and again in 2008. Ithaca’s winningest men’s soccer coach, he was named the Northeast Region Division III coach of the year in 1996 and 1997.  Byrne has been named the Empire 8 Coach of the Year four times, including 2008 when he led Ithaca to the league's regular-season title.

A 1975 graduate of Plymouth State College, he played for Gerd Lutter, a member of the Ithaca College Athletic Hall of Fame. A team captain, Byrne earned earned four varsity letters. He later spent time as an assistant coach for Lutter with the Panthers before earning a master’s degree at Eastern Illinois University.

Prior to taking the head coaching position at Ithaca, Byrne was the head men’s soccer coach and a physical education instructor at Indiana State University-Evansville (now Southern Indiana). His teams won three consecutive Great Lakes Valley championships, posted a 34-18-2 overall mark and competed in the 1982 NCAA Division II playoffs. Byrne has also been head coach at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. His overall coaching record is 332-207-57 for a .605 career winning percentage.

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