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Lake Forest College

Lake Forest College Athletics
 555 N. Sheridan Rd. Lake Forest, IL 60045
Division 3 Illinois Midwest
Private Small Developing team
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Tim Dean

The 2023 season will be the eighth at Lake Forest College and 15th year of coaching overall for Tim Dean, who was named Interim Head Coach in December of 2022.


The Foresters posted a 5-1-2 Midwest Conference record and captured the 18th league title in program history in 2022. They outscored conference opponents 11-5 during the regular season and a pair of thrilling victories during the MWC Tournament sent Lake Forest to the NCAA Division III Tournament for the fourth time in the last decade. Six players on the team earned all-conference honors, including MWC Defensive Player of the Year Szymon Mocarski.


Lake Forest is 58-53-7 overall and 38-12-3 in conference play with two league titles and NCAA Tournament appearances in Dean's seven seasons on staff. During that time the Foresters earned a spot in the four-team MWC Tournament in five of the six years the event was held and individual players on the team earned 28 All-MWC selections, three all-region honors, and 81 Academic All-MWC accolades.


Dean has been the director of coaching for the Grove United Soccer Association since March of 2014. In addition to overseeing the staff throughout the club, he also coaches two of the age groups.


Dean has been a coach in the Illinois Olympic Development Program since 2012 and currently works with the 2004 Boys team. He is also an instructor in Illinois Youth Soccer's Coach Education Program.


Other organizations Dean has been with since entering the profession in 2009 include Coerver Coaching IL, Warren United, and Skills First Soccer. He has also coached at several youth summer camps since 2002.


While in high school Dean was an all-conference, all-district, and all-area selection. He went on to play for the club teams at Grand Valley State University and Illinois State University.


Dean graduated from Illinois State in December of 2008 with a bachelor's degree in marketing.


He resides in Chicago.

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Joseph Lovric

Joseph Lovric joined the Forester coaching staff prior to the 2022 season.


Lake Forest went 5-1-2 in Midwest Conference play, captured a league title, and advanced to the NCAA Division III Tournament in Lovric's first year with the program. Six Foresters earned All-MWC honors, including the MWC Defensive Player of the Year and three other first team selections.


Lovric spent the previous three years as the head junior varsity coach and assistant varsity coach at North Shore Country Day School in Winnetka, Illinois. He was a member of the Independent School League Conference Coaching Staff of the Year twice and helped lead the team to a fourth-place finish in the state tournament in 2019. His coaching experience at the prep level also includes a season as an assistant at Mather High School in Chicago, his alma mater.


A 2020 graduate of North Park University, Lovric was a three-year member of the Viking men's soccer team, which captured back-to-back College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin titles and advanced to the champoionships game of the 2017 NCAA Division III Tournament.

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