Fred Schmalz

Fred Schmalz is a retired American soccer coach. He coached at the collegiate level for 33 years. He was a National Coach of the Year and has been named to six Halls of Fame for his play and his coaching successes.[1]

Fred Schmalz
Personal information
Date of birth 1943
Place of birth St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Youth career
Years Team
1964–1966 Quincy Hawks
Managerial career
1970–72 Davis & Elkins Senators (assistant)
1973–78 Davis & Elkins Senators
1979–2002 Evansville Purple Aces

Career

A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Schmalz is a graduate of Quincy College, in Quincy, Illinois, where he played on the school's first intercollegiate team in 1964 and was a member of the 1966 team that won the first of Quincy's record eleven NAIA National Championships.[2][3][4]

Following his graduation from Quincy, Schmalz was a physical education instructor at the University of Wyoming before becoming an assistant coach at Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia. After three seasons, he was named Davis & Elkins' head coach in 1973, and in six seasons, led the team to a record of 91–21–5[5] and six NAIA tournaments, including a second-place finish in 1974.[4]

In 1979, Schmalz was named the third head coach of the University of Evansville Purple Aces in Evansville, Indiana. In eight seasons as an independent, seven as a member of the Midwestern City/Midwestern Collegiate Conference, and nine as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference, Schmalz' Purple Aces teams built a record of 302–165–49, won six conference tournaments (5 MCC, 1 MVC), and advanced to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship eleven times, including nine years in a row from 1984 through 1992, with third-place finishes in the NCAA College Cup in 1985 and 1990.[6][7] Among the players Schmalz mentored at Evansville were 13 All-Americans, 17 Academic All-Americans, and 31 who went on to play professionally.[5]

In addition to his collegiate coaching, Schmalz was a U.S. Soccer Federation national staff coach and coached in six Olympic Sports Festivals.[8]

Although "retired," Schmalz has continued to work with youth soccer in Evansville.

Honors

1985 Soccer America College Coach of the Year.[5]

1988 Bill Jeffrey Award from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) "...recognizing long-term service to collegiate soccer."[9]

Schmalz was the recipient of the first Ron Wigg Award in 1998—the highest honor presented by the U.S. Olympic Development Program.[10]

Schmalz was the first to coach gold medal-winning soccer teams from separate regions in the U.S. Olympic Sports Festival, coaching the West in 1990 and the North in 1991.[5]

Quincy Hawks Hall of Fame Class of 1993.[2]

The Indiana Soccer Hall of Fame Class of 1997.[11]

Davis & Elkins College Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2003.[12]

University of Evansville Athletics Hall of Fame class of 2003–04.[13]

Saint Louis Soccer Hall of Fame Class of 2009.[14]

The Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame Class of 2011.[5]

References
  1. "Former Evansville Aces soccer coach Fred Schmalz headed to MVC Hall of Fame". Evansville Courier & Press. August 21, 2011. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  2. "Hall of Fame". Quincy University. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  3. "2015 Quick Facts" (PDF). Quincy University. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  4. "NAIA MEN'S SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY" (PDF). Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  5. "Six Inductees Selected for Athletics Hall of Fame". Missouri Valley Conference. August 17, 2011. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  6. "2014 Aces Soccer Media Guide" (PDF). Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  7. "Men's soccer Division I History" (PDF). NCAA. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  8. "2001 College Soccer Ambassadors". CollegeSoccerNews.com. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  9. "Bill Jeffrey Award". NSCAA. Archived from the original on February 15, 2016. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  10. "Schmalz wins Ron Wigg Award". Evansville Press. March 3, 1998. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  11. "Indiana Soccer Hall of Fame Members & Merit Award Winners". Indiana Soccer. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  12. "Athletic Hall of Fame". Davis & Elkins College. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  13. "Athletics Hall of Fame". University of Evansville. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  14. "St. Louis Soccer Hall of Fame Members". St. Louis Soccer Hall of Fame. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
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