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Brian Parker
In the 2022 season, Parker led the Women's Soccer team to an overall record of 18-2-2 and a conference record of 14-1-1. Parker coached players who earned D2CCA All-Region Honors ( Hannah Thompson, Abbey Dennis, and Toni Fiocco-Mizer), First Team Academic All-American (Dennis), United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-Americans (Dennis and Thompson) and Earned 15th straight ethics and sportsmanship award. He led his team to their first ever NCAA Tournament Bid. Parker was named MEC Coach of the year and Senior Abbey Dennis was named MEC Co-Defensive player of the year.
Brian Parker led the women's soccer team during their impressive 2021 campaign. The Bobcats finished the season with a record of 12-6-2, clinching the MEC North Division title and earning a #1 seed in the MEC tournament. The Bobcats would defeat Charleston (WV) in the MEC semifinals but would narrowly fall to Concord 1-0 in the MEC championship game. The Bobcats finished 2nd in the MEC in shots taken (218), 2nd in goals allowed (15), and 3rd in total goals scored.
Parker coached the MEC Freshman of the Year (Catherine Smith), two All-MEC 1st team selections (Audra Curtin, Mackenzie Folch), three All-MEC 2nd team selections (Abbey Dennis, Hannah Thompson, Lexi Pate), and an All-MEC Honorable Mention (Toni Fiocco-Mizer). Parker also coached a pair of MEC All-Tournament Team selections (Mackenzie Folch, Toni Fiocco-Mizer). To go along with the individual accolades, the Bobcats earned their 14th straight United Soccer Coaches Platinum Team Ethics and Sportsmanship Award, only being given one yellow card throughout the duration of the season.
Academically, Parker coached the Bobcats to their 15th straight United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award, earning the 4th highest team GPA across Division II.
Brian Parker and the women's soccer team took the MEC by storm in 2020 by going 6-1-2 and reaching a national ranking of #15. The Bobcats reached the MEC tournament semifinals as a 2 seed and lost to Notre Dame (OH) in a heartbreaking PK shootout. The team finished the season 2nd in the MEC in shots taken (175), 3rd in goals allowed (5), and T-4th in total goals (12).
Parker coached a pair of 1st team All-MEC (Audra Curtin, Abbey Dennis), an All-MEC Freshman Team member (Toni Fiocco-Mizer), and an All-MEC Honorable Mention (Caroline Burton). To go along with the individual accomplishments, Parker coached a very discipline team that received the United Soccer Coaches Platinum Team Ethics and Sportsmanship Award for only receiving one yellow card for the duration of the season.
Off the field, Parker coached 16 All-MEC Academic selections to go along with Curtin and Dennis receiving Scholar All-Region selections.
Brian Parker begins his 19th season as head coach of the Frostburg State University women's soccer program in 2020. The 1992 FSU graduate is the winningest Bobcat women's soccer coach with a 222-109-39 record in his 18 seasons. Parker’s teams aren’t just winning on the field, but the Bobcats have won 12-straight United Soccer Coaches Team Academic honors and 12-straight USC Team Ethics awards.
In 2019, Frostburg opened its first year at NCAA Division II with six wins, six victories in the Mountain East, four shutouts and a fifth-place finish in the MEC North Division.
Prior to the move to DII, Parker was listed in several NCAA DIII record lists, including 42nd nationally amongst winningest active coaches by winning percentage (.686).
From 2010-18, the Bobcats competed in the Capital Athletic Conference and posted 104 wins, including back-to-back 17-win seasons in 2010 (17-4-1) and 2011 (17-2-2). FSU earned 51 wins in conference play, including the 2012 and 2014 CAC Tournament Championships.
During that same nine-year stretch, Frostburg posted a combined 75 shutouts, including 47 at home and 38 against CAC opponents. The Bobcats finished second in the CAC regular-season standings four times (2010, 2011, 2016 & 2017), played in the CAC Tournament Championship game on five occasions and placed 35 players on the All-CAC teams.
Frostburg appeared in the CAC Tournament Championship game and earned a spot in the ECAC Tournament in 2016 and 2017.
In 2014, Frostburg made an appearance in the NCAA Tournament after capturing the CAC Tournament Title. The Bobcats knocked off top-seeded Christopher Newport in the semifinals of the tournament before shutting out Mary Washington, 2-0, in the title game at Bobcat Stadium. FSU led the conference in save percentage (.859), goals (48) and points (129).
The Bobcats earned the program's seventh NCAA Tournament appearance in 2012 after defeating Salisbury in the CAC Tournament Championship game. FSU led the CAC and finished 25th in the country at 3.15 goals per game, while posting a minuscule 0.77 goals against average.
Prior to 2010, FSU won the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championship and advanced to the NCAA Tournament five times under Parker's guidance (2002-05 and 2009). He also powered the Bobcats to the ECAC Tournament in three-consecutive seasons from 2006-2008.
In 2009, Parker capped FSU's tenure in the AMCC in stellar fashion. Frostburg finished with a school record 18 wins (18-4 overall), scored a program record 90 goals, won 14 of 15 games during the middle part of the season, posted a 9-1 conference mark and advanced to the AMCC Championship game for the 11th-straight year. In the championship, FSU needed an overtime period to down Penn State Altoona as Lauren Russell drilled home a shot four minutes into the extra frame to send FSU to a 1-0 victory. In the NCAA Tournament, FSU lost to No. 9 ranked Otterbein 1-0 in the first round.
Over the first seven years at the helm (2002-08), Parker built one of the most successful programs on the east coast. He led the Bobcats to four-consecutive AMCC Tournament Championships (2002-05) and four NCAA Tournaments (2002-05). In 2003, the Bobcats were chosen to host an NCAA match for the first time in school history and made the most of the opportunity, defeating Westminster 3-2 for their first NCAA Tournament victory in three tries. In 2008, Parker’s squad set school records in shutouts (15), save percentage (0.873), goals against average (0.35) and fewest goals allowed in a season (8). In 2007, Frostburg upset No. 18 ranked Johns Hopkins, 4-1, at Bobcat Stadium on a Friday night.
Parker, a two-time AMCC Coach of the Year in 2003 and 2004, led the Bobcats to 95 wins during that stretch, 35 wins in the AMCC and a school record 12-straight wins in the 2003 season.
Parker coached 36 All-AMCC selections and six league Players of the Year, including three-time Great Lakes All-Region honoree Karen Kotofski. Parker has coached several individual school record holders, including Kotofski, the school's all-time leader in goals (83) and Lauren Russell, FSU's all-time leader in assists (39). Russell is also second in program history with 64 career goals.
Prior to returning to western Maryland, Parker served as head girls soccer coach at Urbana High School in Frederick County, Md. and guided the Hawks to an impressive 62-36-6 record and a pair of regional championships. He was also named the Frederick County Coach of the Year in second season.
Parker, a 1992 graduate of Frostburg, was a goalkeeper for the Bobcats from 1987-89. He was a member of two Eastern College Athletic Conference Tournament qualifiers, including the 1989 squad that won the ECAC South Region Championship.
Following Frostburg, Parker moved on to West Virginia University where he serve as a graduate assistant for the Mountaineer men's team for two years while earning a master's in political science.
Parker, who has a USSF "B" coaching license and a Premier Diploma from United Soccer Coaches, is on the coaching education staff of both the Maryland State Youth Soccer Assoc. (MSYSA) and United Soccer Coaches and teaches in the FSU Minor in Coaching program. Parker is also frequently on the Maryland Olympic Development Program Staff and recently coached the 2002 girls team and is the current head coach of the MD ODP 2003 (16U) girls.
Parker was a founder and staff coach with the Frederick United Soccer Club (now FC Frederick) until his return to FSU. He and his wife, Karen, a 1993 FSU graduate and native of Frostburg, have two children — Elise (18) and Matt (16).
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