Frostburg State University Athletics

Brian Parker begins his 25th season as head coach of the Frostburg State University women's soccer program in 2026. A 1992 FSU graduate, he is the winningest Bobcat women's soccer coach with a 301-130-51 record, earning four conference Coach of the Year honors. Parker’s teams also achieve success off the field, having earned 20 United Soccer Coaches Team Academic honors and 19 USC Team Ethics awards.

During his tenure, the Bobcats have made 10 NCAA National Tournament appearances, winning seven conference tournament championships and nine regular season titles. He has coached the program's three All-Americans in Adria Graham, Abbey Dennis, and Cat Smith, as well as 14 Academic/Scholar All-Americans and four Frostburg State Hall of Fame members. 

Frostburg enjoyed another double-digit win season in 2025, earning the two seed in the MEC North Division with a 10-5-4 mark overall and an MEC record of 7-3-4. 

FSU won another MEC North Division title in 2024, going 15-4-2 overall with an 11-1-2 mark in conference play. The team advanced to the semifinals of the conference tournament and secured their third consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance, being selected as the seven seed in the Atlantic Region. 

2023 saw more continued success for Coach Parker's women's soccer program, making their second-straight NCAA Tournament appearance, sporting a 17-3-2 record, with an 11-1-2 MEC record. FSU secured another North Division crown and reached the MEC Championship game for a third-consecutive season. 

In the 2022 season, Parker led the Women's Soccer team to an overall record of 18-2-2 and a conference record of 14-1-1. The team became the first FSU program to qualify for an NCAA Tournament at the Division II level, being named the two seed in the Atlantic Region. In leading the team to another North Division title and MEC Championship Game appearance, Parker was named MEC Coach of the year and Abbey Dennis was named MEC Co-Defensive player of the year. 

Coach Parker led the women's soccer team during their impressive 2021 campaign. The Bobcats finished the season with a record of 12-6-2, clinching the MEC North Division title and earning a #1 seed in the MEC tournament. The Bobcats would defeat Charleston (WV) in the MEC semifinals but would narrowly fall to Concord 1-0 in the MEC championship game.

Parker and the women's soccer team took the MEC by storm in 2020 by going 6-1-2 and reaching a national ranking of #15. The Bobcats reached the MEC tournament semifinals as a two-seed, falling in the semifinals via penalty shootout. 
 
In 2019, Frostburg opened its first year at NCAA Division II with six wins, six victories in the Mountain East, four shutouts and a fifth-place finish in the MEC North Division.
 
From 2010-18, the Bobcats competed in the Capital Athletic Conference and posted 104 wins, including back-to-back 17-win seasons in 2010 (17-4-1) and 2011 (17-2-2). FSU earned 51 wins in conference play, including the 2012 and 2014 CAC Tournament Championships.
 
During that same nine-year stretch, Frostburg posted a combined 75 shutouts, including 47 at home and 38 against CAC opponents. The Bobcats finished second in the CAC regular-season standings four times (2010, 2011, 2016 & 2017), played in the CAC Tournament Championship game on five occasions and placed 35 players on the All-CAC teams.
 
Frostburg appeared in the CAC Tournament Championship game and earned a spot in the ECAC Tournament in 2016 and 2017.
 
In 2014, Frostburg made an appearance in the NCAA Tournament after capturing the 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).
 
The Bobcats earned the program's seventh NCAA Tournament appearance in 2012 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.
 
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.
 
Prior to returning to western Maryland, Parker served as head girls soccer coach at Urbana High School in Frederick County, Md. and guided the Hawks to an impressive 62-36-6 record and a pair of regional championships. He was also named the Frederick County Coach of the Year in second season.
 
Parker, a 1992 graduate of Frostburg, 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.
 
Following Frostburg, Parker 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 United Soccer Coaches, was on the coaching education staff of both the Maryland State Youth Soccer Assoc. (MSYSA) and United Soccer Coaches and formerly taught in the FSU Coaching Minor program. Parker was a part of the Maryland Olympic Development Program Staff, having coached the 2002 girls team and the MD ODP 2003 (16U) girls.
 
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 and Matt.