Frostburg State University Athletics

Brian Parker begins his 14th season as head coach of the Frostburg State University women's soccer program in 2015. The 1992 FSU graduate, is the winningest Bobcat women's soccer coach with a 182-61-29 record in his 13 seasons. Parker’s teams aren’t just winning on the field, but the Bobcats have won eight-straight NSCAA Team Academic honors and eight-straight NSCAA Team Ethics awards.
 
Heading into the 2014 season, Parker was ranked 29th among active NCAA Division III coaches with a .723 winning percentage and he is 34th all-time among both active and non-active coaches in winning percentage in Division III.
 
Five years ago, the Bobcats joined the Capital Athletic Conference and they haven’t skipped a beat. Frostburg has posted 69 wins, including back-to-back 17-win seasons in 2010 (17-4-1) and 2011 (17-2-2). FSU has earned 28 wins in conference play, including the 2012 and 2014 CAC Tournament Championships.
 
Over the last five years, Frostburg has posted a combined 48 shutouts, including 34 at home and 16 against CAC opponents. The Bobcats have twice finished second in the CAC regular season standings (2010 & 2011) and have placed 23 players on the All-CAC teams.
 
For the second time in three seasons, Frostburg made an appearance in the NCAA Tournament after capturing the 2014 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).
 
In 2013, Frostburg posted eight wins and advanced to the CAC Tournament for the fourth-consecutive season. FSU led the conference in scoring (2.3 gpg), finished second in both goals (41) and assists (32) and finished with the league’s fourth lowest goals against average (1.13). The Bobcats were the only CAC school to finish the season without a yellow or red card.
 
In 2012, the Bobcats earned the program's seventh NCAA Tournament appearance 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. To cap the accolades, Adria Graham became the program's first-ever NSCAA All-American, while coach Parker was named the CAC Coach of the Year.
 
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.
 
Former goalkeeper Stephanie Zych (2000-03) holds four major career goalkeeping records; wins (48), saves (443), goals against average (.154) and shutouts (19).
 
Prior to returning to western Maryland, Parker served as head girls soccer coach at Urbana High School in Frederick County, Md., since the school's opening in 1995. He guided the Hawks to an impressive 62-36-6 record and a pair of regional championships during his tenure.
 
In just his second season at Urbana, Parker was named the Frederick County Coach of the Year after leading a team of freshmen and sophomores to the school's first-ever regional championship crown. The Hawks, who posted winning records in six of Parker's seven years, earned their second regional title in 2001.
 
Parker is no stranger to FSU, as he 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.
 
Parker then coached the FSU women's soccer team as a club sport from 1990-1992 and received his degree in social sciences with a teaching certification from FSU in 1992. He 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 the NSCAA, is on the coaching education staff of both the Maryland State Youth Soccer Assoc. (MSYSA) and the NSCAA and teaches in the FSU Minor in Coaching program. Parker is also frequently on the Maryland Olympic Development Program Staff and led the Maryland 1990 Girls team to the Region I Tournament championship in 2005 and coached the 1994 girls in 2009/10 and the 1996 girls in 2011 to appearances in the Region I Tournament Championship game.
 
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 (14) and Matt (12).