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Geneva College

Geneva College Athletics
 3200 College Avenue Beaver Falls, PA 15010
Division 3 Pennsylvania Northeast
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Gary Dunda

The 2023 season will be Gary Dunda’s 14th season as head coach for the Geneva College Golden Tornadoes. Since his first season in 2010, Dunda has led the Golden Tornadoes to an overall record of 143-72-37, and the program has competed in the postseason conference championship tournament every year except one since joining the Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) in 2011. His teams have been even more impressive in conference play, with the program compiling a 67-20-12 record since joining the PAC.


In 2011, Geneva won the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) East Region Championship title, and then continued to the NCCAA National Championship tournament where they finished second in the nation. From 2011 to 2015 Dunda and the Golden Tornadoes finished second in the PAC three times before winning the title and earning a bid into the NCAA National Championship tournament in 2016. Dunda was named PAC Coach of the Year as well as NSCAA Regional Coach of the Year in 2016, and his program finished the 2016 season ranked 5th in the Great Lakes Region by the NSCAA. In addition, Dunda and the Golden Tornadoes held a 14-game win streak, the longest in NCAA Division III that season, before losing 1-0 to 6th ranked Franklin & Marshall in the first round of the NCAA 2016 National Championship tournament. In 2017 and 2019, Geneva once again advanced to the PAC Championship match, which made four of five seasons the Golden Tornadoes had advanced to the PAC Championship match. In the spring 2021 season, Geneva finished atop the PAC regular season standings, and the United Soccer Coaches named his staff as the regional staff of the year in the Great Lakes Region. The Golden Tornadoes finished third in the PAC regular season standings in 2022.


A graduate of Messiah College, Dunda was a four-year starter from 1993-96 on teams that were nationally ranked. He began his collegiate coaching career at Messiah as an assistant coach before becoming the associate men's and women's coach at Ottawa University and the head women's coach at Missouri Valley College. Prior to becoming the coach at Geneva, Dunda was the head coach at Goucher College in Maryland for ten years where he led international soccer tours to Spain (2009), England and Scotland (2006). He holds the NSCAA National and Advanced National and was a head coach with the US Youth Olympic Development Program (ODP) for the highly competitive state of Maryland for four years. In addition, Dunda served four years on the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Soccer Rules Committee, and one year as the Committee’s Chair.


Dunda earned an undergraduate degree in sport and exercise science from Messiah in 1997 and master's degree in sports administration from Emporia State University in 2001. At Geneva College, he is an assistant professor in the Sport Management major. Dunda and his wife, Heather, reside in Sewickley and have three children: Madeline (21), Wil (19) and Luke (11).

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Dan Yates

Dan Yates joined the men's soccer program as an assistant coach for the 2023 season. He brings with him a wealth of experience, most recently as an assistant for Steel City FC Men's First team, who compete in the NPSL. He helped coach the team to a 2023 Conference Championship, as well as a Midwest Conference Finalist. The program also qualified for the 2024 US Open Cup. Yates is also the current Performance Phase leader for u17-u19 at Steel City FC (formerly Pittsburgh Hotspurs & Arsenal FC of Pittsburgh).


Yates was also a volunteer assistant at Robert Morris where he helped lead the men's program to back-to-back Horizon League Tournaments. He was also the Deer Lakes High School Head Coach in 2019-20 where he led the program to two WPIAL finals, one PIAA State finals, while winning the 2020 WPIAL Championship, the first in school history.


Yates studied Soccer Coaching, Administration & Development at the University of South Wales, in the United Kingdom, through a blended learning course while also coaching in the USA.


He is a UEFA B licensed coach.

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Luke Nolan

Luke Nolan is in his first year as the assistant coach with the Geneva Men's Soccer program. Prior to Geneva, Nolan served as an assistant coach at Eastern University while completing his Master's Degree in Business Administration. He joined the 2019 Eagles ranked 16th in the country and helped them repeat as MAC Freedom champions. At Eastern, Nolan was responsible for training the goalkeepers, recruiting, and developing student-athletes.


Nolan gets to rejoin the Geneva Men's Soccer program after completing his goalkeeping career for the Golden Tornadoes from 2015-2018. He was a three time All PAC conference selection and helped the Golden Tornadoes reach three consecutive PAC Championship games. In 2016, he was part of the men's soccer team that went undefeated in conference play, winning the PAC Championship and earning a berth in the NCAA tournament for the first time in program history.


At Geneva, Luke Nolan will be involved in all aspects of the program, including training, student-athlete development, and recruiting. He will also be serving as an instructor in the Physical Education Department.

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