Flagler College

Flagler College Athletics
74 King Street St. Augustine, FL 32084

Division 2 Florida Southeast

Private Small National competitor

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Coaches

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Thomas Coombes

Coaching Experience

• Head Coach, Flagler College (2022-present)

• Assistant Coach, Flagler College (2020-21)

• Graduate Assistant Coach, Bloomsburg University (2018-19)

• Volunteer Assistant Coach, Barry University (2017)

Education

• B.S., Business Administration, Barry University, 2014

• M.A., Sport Management, Barry University, 2017

Coaching at Flagler

Thomas Coombes was named the head coach on Nov. 15, 2022 after serving as an interim head coach on June 3, 2022. He is in his third year with the Flagler men's soccer program having served as an assistant coach to Chris Kranjc for the previous two seasons.

He guided the Saints to a 10-4-3 overall record and an 8-2-2 mark in the Peach Belt Conference in 2022. Coombes helped four players earn all-conference honors while George Winser was named the PBC Freshman of the Year and Tirso Trueba the PBC Defensive Player of the Year.

Prior to Flagler

Coombes came to the Ancient City from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania where he served as a graduate assistant for the past two seasons (2018 and 2019). He helped six Huskies earn All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference honors, including five in 2019. Some of his responsibilities at Bloomsburg included recruiting both domestic and international student-athletes as well as planning and executing practices for the team and individuals.

He also served one season (2017) as a volunteer assistant coach at his alma mater, Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida.

Coombes, a forward, was a four-year starter for the Buccaneers (2012-16). He ranks fourth all-time at Barry with 33 career goals scored and is sixth in points with 82. Coombes earned D2CCA All-America honorable mention accolades in 2016. He also received D2CCA All-South Region honors and was a CoSIDA Academic All-America® third-team selection as a senior. Coombes was a two-time All-Sunshine State Conference pick.

Personal

He earned his bachelor's in business administration from Barry and earned his master's in sport management, also from Barry.

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Michael Lamb

Michael Lamb begins his second season as an assistant coach at Flagler.

Lamb served three years as an assistant coach at Saginaw Valley State University where he helped coach the team to an overall record of 43-13-4 and a 33-4-2 record in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC). In 2016, the Cardinals won the GLIAC regular season title. Saginaw advanced to the NCAA Division II National Tournament twice (2015 and 2016).

As a player, Lamb began his career at Oregon State University in 2011. He transferred to Saginaw Valley where he played three seasons and helped the Cardinals to regular and post-season titles in 2012. SVSU advanced all the way to the national championship match in 2012 and finished with a 19-3-4 overall record. Lamb earned first-team All-Midwest Region honors in 2013 and was named the GLIAC's Defensive Player of the Year. He helped Saginaw Valley advance to the round of 16 the following year.