Andy Fleming again led the Musketeers to the Atlantic 10 Championship title and the NCAA Tournament for a second straight season. Xavier finished with a 12-5-4 record, the best in program history.
Xavier returns for the second straight year to the Atlantic 10 Championship as the No. 6 seed. The Musketeers open by facing No. 3 Charlotte, who is ranked 8th in the nation.
The start of A-10 play didn't go quite as well as head coach Andy Fleming wanted. The Musketeers went 0-1-1 and host Richmond and George Washington this weekend in their final home games of the year.
Recent Accomplishments
NCAA Tournament '04, '07, '08, '09, '10
NCAA Elite 8 in `08
NCAA Sweet 16 in `09
Atlantic 10 Champions `10
America East Champions (Boston U) '01, '04
36 straight weeks in Top 25 (Northwestern) '07-'09
Top 25 appearances (Boston U) in '98, '01, '02, '03, '04, '06
Coached six All-Americans
Coached six Conference Players of the Year
Has recruited/developed: One Parade All-American 1 NSCAA National High School Player of the Year Six Gatorade Players of the Year Six MLS Draft Picks 17 players with youth national team experience
Featured Speaker on Leadership - Proctor & Gamble; Northwestern University Graduate School; Cincinnati Special Olympics
Team GPA 3.0 or above '07,' 08, '09, '10
2010 Season (First at Xavier)
NCAA Tournament (first in school history)
Atlantic 10 Champions (first in school history)
Led NCAA Division I in single season win improvement
No. 2 In Final Regional Ranking (Mid-Atlantic)
Defeated No. 20 Indiana and No. 15 Charlotte
3.0 Team GPA, with 17 players over 3.0
Only NCAA Tournament team with no All-Conference player
One of the nation's top up-and-coming head coaches, Andy Fleming has taken the Xavier soccer program to a level of success its never previously enjoyed.
In his first year with the Musketeer program, Fleming guided a squad that won only two matches in 2009 to an Atlantic 10 Championship and an NCAA Tournament berth - both firsts for Xavier men's soccer. The turnaround included wins over the top three seeds in the A-10 Tournament to capture the crown and the automatic berth into the NCAA Championships. By the time Fleming's first season at Xavier concluded, XU had enjoyed the biggest improvement in wins from 2009 of any other program in Division I soccer. That success on the field was mirrored by Fleming's student-athletes off the field. Fourteen players on the Musketeer roster boasted GPAs of 3.0 or better, and the team GPA was also 3.0.
Fleming came to Xavier from Northwestern, where he served as the Wildcats' associate head coach/recruiting coordinator from 2007-09. The Wildcats concluded the 2009 season with an 11-5-4 record and finished second in the Big Ten. NU garnered a No. 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament, advanced to the Round of 16 and concluded the season ranked No. 11 by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA). Fleming helped develop Mark Blades into the 2009 Big 10 Co-Defensive Player of the Year and a two-time All-American.
The 2009 season was no aberration as Northwestern was 38-15-10 (.683) during Fleming's tenure and qualified for the NCAA Tournament in each of those three seasons. The 2008 campaign saw NU win a school-record 15 games, advance to the Final Eight of the NCAA Tournament and earn a No. 9 ranking in the final NSCAA poll. The 2008 squad reached as high as No. 2 in the national polls during the season and spent five weeks in the Top 10.
The Wildcats were nationally ranked for 36-straight weeks during Fleming's tenure.
Prior to his arrival in Evanston, Fleming was an assistant coach at BU from 1998-2007, spending the last three years as associate head coach. His efforts helped the Terriers to eight winning seasons and six appearances in the top 25, including a national ranking of seventh in 2002. The squad won America East regular season crowns in 2001 and 2004 and reached the second round of the NCAA tournament in 2004. While in Boston, he was part of the recruitment and development of four conference players of the year, four All-Americans, two MLS draft picks, and the owners of the BU records for single-season goals and career assists. He also assembled the BU team which captured an NCAA at-large bid in 2007 and a majority of the 2008 NCAA tournament team.
Fleming was recognized as one of the nation's top assistant coaches by College Soccer News on seven occasions and was honored as the 2009 NSCAA Central Region National Assistant Coach of the Year. He has assembled eight consecutive nationally ranked recruiting classes, including the 2009 edition which was rated 17th-best by CollegeSoccerNews.com. His recruiting classes have included the 2002 National High School Player of the Year, a Parade All-American, nine high school All-Americans and four Gatorade State Players of the Year.
Many of Fleming's players have gone on to enjoy tremendous professional success after their college careers have included. His list of alums include professionals Andy Dorman of Crystal Palace in England's First Division; Samuel Appiah (Houston MLS); Ryan Johnson (San Jose MLS); and former MLS draft picks Zach Kirby (LA Galaxy 2007) and David Roth (NY Red Bull 2008).
Fleming's success has caught the eye of U.S. Soccer as well. On the youth level, he served as a co-head coach of the South Shore United Blazers which won the U.S. Youth Soccer East Region Title in 1999 and later went on to secure a spot as the nation's top-rated U17 team in May 2001. The team would go on to produce nine Division I players and two MLS draft picks.
He has also been featured as a guest speaker on leadership and teamwork at Proctor and Gamble, Northwestern University Graduate Studies Programs and with the Cincinnati Special Olympics.
Fleming holds a USSF 'A' Coaching License.
A former two-year captain at Marist College, Fleming helped lead the Red Foxes to a seventh-place ranking in the New York State Region in his senior year (1996). Upon graduation, Fleming joined the Marist staff in 1997 as an assistant coach.
The Braintree, Mass., native was inducted into the Archbishop Williams Hall of Fame in March 2004 and participated in the Master of Business Administration program at Northwestern..
He and his wife, Amy, reside in Cincinnati with their son Brady (2) and newborn daughter Devin.
One of the nation's top up-and-coming head coaches, Andy Fleming has taken the Xavier soccer program to a level of success its never previously enjoyed.
Many of Fleming's players have gone on to enjoy tremendous professional success after their college careers have included. His list of alums include professionals Andy Dorman of Crystal Palace in England's First Division; Samuel Appiah (Houston MLS); Ryan Johnson (San Jose MLS); and former MLS draft picks Zach Kirby (LA Galaxy 2007) and David Roth (NY Red Bull 2008).
