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Keelan Barker

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Keelan Barker gets set for his first season at the helm of the Indiana Tech men’s soccer program heading into the 2024-25 season after being named head coach on January 18, 2024.


“We are excited to welcome Coach Barker to our men’s soccer program,” Director of Athletics Jessie Biggs said. “His knowledge and coaching history at multiple levels is a great fit for our team moving forward.”


Barker comes to Tech with a vast array of knowledge and experiences at the college level over the years, joining from NCAA D1 Bowling Green State University where he was the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the last year.


"First I just want to thank Jessie Biggs, David Bokhart and all of the hiring committee for giving me the opportunity to become a part of this great program and university,” Barker said. “My family and I are excited to be back in the Fort Wayne area and I cannot wait to get to work with the lads."


Before his time at Bowling Green, Barker was previously the head coach at NJCAA Coffeyville CC, where he led them to two KJCCC conference titles, one Regional final appearance, and one national tournament appearance. They were also ranked in the top ten in the country for their on the field performances, as well as their team GPA. Barker set the record at Coffeyville for the most wins in program history with a 18-3-1 record.


He has coached at USL 2 Fort Wayne FC for the past three seasons, setting the record for the most wins in their history, going undefeated in the regular season and winning the conference title during the 2023 summer season, and being ranked in the top 5 in the country.


Barker began his collegiate coaching career at Eastern Oregon University, where he helped the Mountaineers advance to the postseason for the first time in program history in 2018, his first season with the program. The team went 11-4-4 that fall and advanced to the Cascade Collegiate Conference semifinals. The next season (2019), Barker helped the Mounties advance to the conference final, as well as the NAIA National Tournament, achieving both milestones for the first time in program history.


Barker played two seasons at Coffeyville CC, captaining the team and earning all-conference honors in both years. Barker helped the team to a 15-5 overall record and a conference co-championship in 2013. In 2014, he helped Coffeyville to a 14-6-3 overall mark and a second-place league finish. The Red Ravens also won a regional title and made the program’s first-ever national-tournament appearance during his playing career.


He then played two seasons at Purdue Fort Wayne, where he again was a team captain. He started 35 of the Mastodons’ 36 matches during his two years in Fort Wayne, with seven points on three goals and an assist. He was named to the Summit League Academic Honor Roll in both years and helped set the record for the most wins in NCAA D1 program history in 2016-2017.


Barker, a native of Nottingham, England, graduated from Purdue Fort Wayne in 2018, with a bachelor’s degree in business management. He earned an MBA from Eastern Oregon in 2019. Barker resides in Fort Wayne with his wife, Elizabeth and daughter, Amiya.

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Jack Rose

Jack Rose enters his first year as with the Indiana Tech men’s soccer program heading into the 2024-25 campaign after joining the coaching staff as an assistant coach on January 26, 2024.


Rose joins the Warriors coaching staff after spending the last year as an assistant coach at Florida Memorial University. In one season there, Rose helped the Lions achieve a multitude of program accolades, including receiving votes in the national top 25 ranking for the first time in program history, making their first Sun Conference Tournament appearance since 2016, helping them to their best overall record since 2015 (9-8-2), and accumulating more wins in 2023 than the program had in the prior four years combined.


Prior to Florida Memorial, Rose, a native of Redcar, United Kingdom, served as the graduate assistant and recruiting coordinator at Central Methodist University (Mo.), where he helped head coach Alex Nichols achieve a record of 38-2-5 over two seasons during the 2021-22 and 2022-23 campaigns. The Eagles, two-time NAIA National Champions, were named the United Soccer Coaches Regional Staff of the Year in both 2021 & 2022.


Prior to his role at CMU, Rose was the assistant coach at Coffeyville Community College, where he helped lead the Red Ravens to a Jayhawk Eastern Conference Championship in 2020-21. He was also an assistant coach for Kaw Valley FC of the USL 2 in the summer of 2021 and 2022.


Before Rose started coaching, he spent two seasons at Eastern Oregon University where he captained the Mountaineers to their first NAIA National Tournament appearance in program history as a senior. He was also named to the Cascade Collegiate Conference Honorable Mention Team in 2018, starting in 19 matches. In his native United Kingdom, Rose played academy soccer for Hartlepool United & York City.

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