Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College Dept of Athletics
9000 College Station Brunswick, ME 04011

Division 3 Maine Northeast

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Scott Wiercinski

Scott Wiercinski was named head coach of the Bowdoin men's soccer team in March of 2013. Over the course of his tenure, Bowdoin has remained one of the top teams in the region and nationally, winning a pair of NESCAC titles, posting winning records in every year as head coach and reaching the postseason in all but one season.

In just his second season, Wiercinski led the Polar Bears to their first-ever NESCAC Championship in his second season at the helm and collected an NCAA First Round Tournament win in 2014. The Polar Bears became back-to-back NESCAC Champions with another tournament run in 2015 when he was named the NESCAC Coach of the Year.

A native of Brunswick and graduate of Brunswick High School, Wiercinski returned to Maine after seven years as head coach at the University of Chicago. His resume also includes assistant coaching jobs at Brown and Bowdoin. He is a 1999 graduate of Middlebury. Prior to Bowdoin, Wiercinski was head men's soccer coach at University of Chicago for seven seasons, winning 58 games and the 2009 UAA Championship. Prior to his arrival at Chicago, Wiercinski spent five years as an assistant coach at Brown University from 2001-05. During that time, Brown compiled a 41-31-13 overall record, collected three Ivy League championships, and earned two NCAA Division I postseason berths.

Wiercinski broke into coaching in 2000 with Bowdoin, where he helped former head coach Brian Ainscough lead the Polar Bears to a 14-2-2 record. A as a student at Middlebury College, Wiercinski was a four-year letter winner and two-time All-New England Small College Athletic Conference goalkeeper for the Panthers. He helped lead Middlebury to a 48-10-3 overall record and four NCAA Division III tournament appearances from 1995-98.

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Andrew Banadda

Andrew Banadda was named assistant coach for the Bowdoin men's soccer team in the spring of 2021.

A 2010 graduate of Middlebury College, Banadda joins Scott Wiercinski’s coaching staff following ten years of coaching in the middle Atlantic. A native of Gaithersburg, Md., Banadda enjoyed a stellar career at Middlebury, where he helped the Panthers win the 2007 national championship by earning All-Tournament honors. He returned to his home region, where he has coached in numerous capacities, including as the Developmental Phase Director at Potomac Soccer Club, Assistant Director of the Soccer Program at Arrington Training & Development, and as an assistant coach for the Washington Adventist University men’s soccer team. Banadda owns a U.S. Soccer “C” License and NSCAA Premier Diploma and is an active member of the United Soccer Coaches Association, where he is a member of the Black Soccer Coaches Advocacy Group.