Joe Bean (Soccer)

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Joe Bean

Biographical details
Born	(1939-04-26)April 26, 1939 Sayre, Pennslyvania
Alma mater	East Stroudsburg State Ohio University
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1962-1964	Quinnipiac University 20-9-0
1965-1968	Bridgeport University 31-15-2
1969-2006	Wheaton College (Illinois) 556-161-58
Head coaching record
Overall	607–185–58
Tournaments	44-26-3 (32 appearances)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
2 Division III National Championships (1984, 1997) 2 Division III National Runner-Up (1999, 2006) 1 Division III National Semi-Finalist (1990) 23 CCIW Men's Soccer Conference Championships
Awards
Two-time NSCAA & NCAA Division III Coach of the Year (1984, 1997) In 38 seasons at Wheaton, 44 players earned All-American honors President of NSCAA (1978) Founder and Director of Premier Soccer Camp (1979-1992) Chairman of NSCAA Ethics Committee (1987) Inaugural recipient of NSCAA/NISOA “Merit Award” for sportsmanship and integrity (1988) NCSAA “Honor Award” recipient (1989) NISOA Hall of Fame inductee (1989) Wheaton College Hall of Honor inductee.]] (1990) Wheaton College soccer facility renamed Joe Bean Stadium (Fall 2006) NSCAA Hall of Fame inductee (Jan. 2007) U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame inductee (Aug. 2007) CCIW Soccer Coach of the Year award renamed “Joe Bean Coach of the Year” award” (2010)
Records
NCAA Men's Soccer record for most consecutive games without loss: 66 games (Wheaton College, 62-0-4 from 1996 to 1998) First collegiate soccer coach to reach 600 victories Retired as winningest soccer coach in NCAA history

Joe Bean (born April 26, 1939) coached soccer in the collegiate ranks for 45 years from 1962 until his final season in 2006. He retired with a career coaching record of 607 wins, the most by any NCAA soccer coach in history at that time. The large majority of those victories were amassed during his 38-year tenure at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. His finest seasons were 1984 and 1997, in which Wheaton won NCAA Division III National Championships. The 1984 squad overcame Brandeis University, 2-1 in a triple overtime. His 1997 squad finished with a record of 24-0-1 and captured a second national title by defeating the College of New Jersey 3-0.

Career Highlights

Other highlights in Joe Bean’s coaching career include a record-setting 66-game unbeaten streak that spanned 3 seasons from 1996 to 1998. In addition, the 1990 squad reached the national semi-finals. The 1999 squad advanced the Final game eventually losing to St. Lawrence University. And in 2006, his final season as head coach of the Thunder, the Wheaton team advanced to the Championship game, losing to Messiah College.

All in all, Coach Bean’s Wheaton teams made 32 postseason appearances with a record of 44-26-3 (a .623 winning percentage). Bean guided his squads to four NCAA Division III Final Four appearances, two National Championships, and two National runner-up seasons. Wheaton College Crusaders and Thunder teams won a total of 23 conference championships under Bean's tenure. He guided the program to 14 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) Championships (1988-2005); five Midwest Metropolitan Soccer Conference (MMSC) Championships (1981-87); three Illinois-Indiana Soccer Conference (IISC) Championships (1970-78) and one Michigan-Illinois-Indiana Soccer Conference (MIISC) Championship (1966-1969). Note: years in parentheses are the years that Wheaton was in each conference.

In 38 seasons at the Wheaton helm, Joe Bean’s players earned 44 All-America recognitions and 75 all-regional selections. Several players went on to successful professional careers (the first being Steve Long and Bret Hall of the old NASL’s Chicago Sting).

Coach Bean missed the NCAA Tournament only six times in his 38 years Wheaton College, along the way winning 10 regional championships. His only losing seasons were a 5-6-4 mark in 1974 and a 9-10-1 campaign in 1987. The Wheaton program has not suffered a losing season since then. In his 38 seasons at Wheaton, Coach Bean compiled a record of 556-161-58.

Prior to taking the reins at Wheaton in 1969, Coach Bean established the men’s soccer program at Quinnipiac College. There he compiled a record of 20-9-0 from 1962 until 1964, when he moved to the University of Bridgeport and built a 31-15-2 record in four seasons. His career record (between all three schools where he coached) was 607-185-61, a career winning percentage of .747.

Joe Bean has also demonstrated his commitment to the game off the field. A former member of the NCAA Men’s Soccer Rules and Tournament committees, he was the editor and secretary of Midwester Soccer News for 17 years. Founder and Director of Premier Soccer Camp, run out of Marmion Academy in Aurora, Illinois the Midwest’s largest camp of its kind at the time. He was the NSCAA’s president in 1978, receiving the Association’s Honor Award in 1989. That same year he was inducted into the National Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association (NISOA) Hall of Fame. The former chairman of the NSCAA’s Ethics Committee, he was the inaugural recipient of the NSCAA/NISOA Merit Award, presented by NISOA to recognize sportsmanship and integrity. In January of 2007 he was inducted into the NSCAA Hall of Fame at the annual NSCAA Awards Banquet as a part of the association’s annual convention in Indianapolis, Indiana. And later that same year, in August 2007 Coach Bean was enshrined in the NSCAA exhibit at the National Soccer Hall of Fame (then in Oneonta, New York).

Legacy

Joe Bean is a regular attendee of the National Soccer Coaches’ Association of America (NSCAA) annual conventions. As a past president, he helped write the bylaws and constitution and also authored the organization's 50-year history that was presented at the Atlanta convention in 1991. He was the first recipient of the NSCAA's Merit Award and in 1989 was presented with the group's highest accolade, the Honor Award

In his years of NSCAA activity, Bean has been at the forefront of a number of innovations, including the introduction of coaching boxes and a code of ethics. He also helped develop awards for teams receiving the fewest red and yellow cards each season. Bean has been an eyewitness to American soccer's explosive growth. When he was NSCAA president in 1978, the organization had 3,000 members. Today it is more than ten times larger. What began as a men's college coaches' association now serves men and women, and coaches at the high school and youth levels as well. And it is not just an American coaching association, but rebranded its name in 2017 to United Soccer Coaches in order to appeal to an international coalition.

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