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Brad McCarty
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The 2023 season is Brad McCarty's 14th season (15th year) as the head coach of the Messiah men's soccer team. McCarty took over the program prior to the 2009 season, but served as an assistant in the program for eight years prior to taking over the head coaching role. Before coming back to Messiah men's soccer program as an assistant in 2001, McCarty served as head men's soccer coach at Hesston College (1994-1999), head women's soccer coach at Erskine College (2000), and the Messiah men's junior varsity coach (1993).
NOTABLE MESSIAH ACCOLADES
266-19-18 overall record at Messiah
His winning percentage of .908 is the second highest winning percentage in NCAA men’s or women’s soccer across all three division, trailing only Scott Frey.
Five NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer National Championships as Head Coach
2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2017
Five-time National Champion as an assistant coach – 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008
12 NCAA Tournament Appearances
39-6-2 (.840 winning percentage) overall record in the NCAA Tournament
Five National Championships
10 Conference Championships
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
Three-time National Coach of the Year
2009, 2012, 2017
Four-time Regional Coach of the Year
Most recently 2022
Seven-time Conference Coach of the Year
2010, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
Coached Six MAC Senior Scholar-Athletes of the Year
Coached 14 Conference Players of the Year
Coached Three Conference Rookies of the Year
Coached 50 All-Region honorees
Coached 26 All-Americans
Coached Seven National Players of the Year
Geoff Pezon (2010), Jeremy Payne (2012, 2014), Josh Wood (2013), Jacob Bender (2016), Nick West (2018), Matt McDonald (2022)
COACHING BIO
A 1993 Messiah graduate, McCarty was named head coach of the Messiah men’s soccer Feb. 9, 2009, becoming the seventh head coach in the program’s storied 44-year history.
As the Falcons’ top assistant coach for the previous eight years, McCarty helped Messiah to five of its first six NCAA Division III National Championships, returning to his alma mater at the outset of the 2001 season as the lead assistant. Success was quick to follow, as Messiah claimed national titles in the 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008 seasons — posting an overall 173-14-8 (.908) record with McCarty on staff. During his time as an assistant coach, Messiah reached the Final Four in all but one season, while 15 NSCAA All-Americans and four NSCAA National Players of the Year came through the program.
McCarty was a standout performer on Shoemaker Field as a collegian. He claimed NSCAA All-Region honors as a senior and was a two-time All-Middle Atlantic Conference First Team member, earning Adidas First Team All-America Scholar-Athlete accolades as a senior as well.
McCarty continued on to play professional soccer for four seasons following his collegiate career, serving as a member of the United Soccer League’s Charlotte Eagles Soccer Club during the summers of 1993 to 1995 and again in 1997, becoming a staple in the franchise’s backfield.
During his playing career, McCarty assumed other duties during the off-seasons, coming back to Messiah in the fall of 1993 to coach the men’s junior varsity squad. He obtained his first collegiate head coaching role the following year, taking over the reigns of the Hesston College (NJCAA Division I, Hesston, Kan.) men’s soccer program at the start of the 1994 fall season. He remained with the Larks’ program for six years, departing to take over the women’s soccer program at Erskine College (NCAA Division II, Due West, S.C.) in 2000. After spending one season with the Flying Fleet, McCarty returned to his alma mater to work under Dave Brandt, helping Messiah’s former leader to unprecedented levels of success at the Division III level.
In addition to his coaching duties, McCarty serves as the Associate Athletics Director for Facilities at Messiah.
McCarty has long been a major part of Messiah’s highly successful summer soccer camps, and has traveled to work the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and Butler University soccer camps as well. He’s performed soccer clinics for area high schools, and takes over as director of the Messiah University boys’ soccer camps in conjunction with his head coaching role.
As mentioned, McCarty graduated from Messiah in 1993 with a degree in health and physical education. He completed his master’s degree Summa Cum Laude at Wichita State University in December of 1997, focusing on sports administration. He resides in Dillsburg with his wife, Jodi. The couple has four children: daughters Madison and Morgan, and sons Ian and Finnley.
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