360-650-3493, travis.connell@wwu.edu

In seventh year directing women's program and 11th as men's head coach at Western ... Also was men's assistant for three seasons ... Women's record is 71-42-8 and men's ledger is 94-87-11 ... Named National Soccer Coaches Association of America Far West Region Women's Coach of the Year in 2008 and Great Northwest Athletic Conference Women's Coach of the Year in 2006 and 2008 ... Directed Western to 17-3-2 record in 2008, the win total being most in school history, and final of Far West Regional ... GNAC Men's Coach of the Year in 2002, 2007 and 2008, directing Vikings to league titles in 2002 and 2008 ... Holds USSF National "A" Coaching License, highest coaching license available ... Washington State ODP Boys staff coach in 1999 and coached at Oak Harbor High School from 1995-98 ... Currently Coaching Director for WFC Rangers, a local select club in Bellingham ... Played two years professionally with Lafayette (La.) Swampcats, which won Eastern Indoor Soccer League title in 1998, and Everett BigFoot, winning PDL Northwest Championship in 1997 ... Earned bachelor's degree in 1995 at Seattle Pacific University ... Three-year starter and four-year letter winner for Falcons ... Started on SPU's 1993 NCAA Division II National Championship team ... Scored tying goal with 65 seconds left in 6-5 national semifinal win over Florida Tech ... Played on four Falcon teams that reached national playoffs ... Team captain as senior ... 1991 graduate of Oak Harbor High School ... His father, John, was head boys soccer coach at Oak Harbor HS and his brother, Caleb, lettered four years in soccer at Seattle Pacific ... 36 years old ... He and wife Georgianne, a four-time All-America gymnast at Seattle Pacific, have one son, Gracen, 5, and one daughter, Bella Rae, 2.