Two-time Penn State All-American Derek Potteiger is the new Lee University men’s soccer coach.
A four-time All-Big Ten player and three-year captain for the Nittany Lions, he was the lead assistant at Navy from 2009 to 2013 and served the past four seasons as head coach at NCAA Division III member Gordon in Massachusetts. His teams there went 61-18-3, with 19 wins in his first season after six wins the year before.
“Derek is one of the brightest young soccer coaches in the nation,” Paul Conn, Lee’s president, said in Thursday’s release about the hiring. “He has shown what he can do as a head coach at a small D-III school, and I believe he will be immediately successfull at the D-II level and in the Gulf South Conference.”
Conn noted that more than 180 applications for the job were received.
Potteiger, his wife and four daughters will be welcomed at the Cleveland school at 11 a.m. Monday at the Deacon Jones Dining Hall on campus.