Head Coach Brian Stock is in his 11th season at the helm of the Southern Utah University women's soccer team and has led the squad since the inception of the program in 2001. During his tenure on the Thunderbird bench, Coach Stock has led SUU to six conference tournament spots, has seen 16 players earn all-conference honors, 10 more garner conference tournament accolades, and 113 players named academic all-conference.
The 2010 campaign saw the Thunderbirds record the highest goal total (27), seconh highest point total (69), the third most shots (282) and fifth most assists (15) in SUU single-season history. Stock had 2009 all-Summit League second-team selection Riley Bassett finish the season with a school-record 63 shots while tallying the second highest goal total ever scored in a single season by a T-Bird (7).
Southern Utah tied the all-time mark of seven wins in 2007 and 2008, advancing to the conference tournament for the fourth consecutive year in 2008. The T-Bird defense allowed the second-fewest goals in school history during the 2008 campaign as the Thunderbirds continued to rewrite the SUU record books. In 2007 the team perpetuated a record-setting precedent, setting new marks in shots (330) and shots on goal (167). The team also put up the second-best total in school history with 23 goals, 18 assists and 64 points in 2007.
The Thunderbirds set and reset records in 2005 and 2006 as the team broke nearly every offensive mark in goals, assists, points, shots, shots on goal and defensive records in goals against average. Coach Stock's efforts in 2005 earned Conference Co-Coach of the Year honors.
Before coming to SUU, Coach Stock, 37, spent three seasons as the assistant women's soccer coach at Youngstown State, where he was also the director of athletic youth camps. During his tenure with the Penguins, he helped produce three all-Mid-Continent Conference selections, two all-Ohio players and 15 all-Mid-Con academic selections.
Stock began his coaching career as an assistant men's soccer coach at his alma mater, The University of Akron, from 1996-98 and helped lead the Zips to the Mid-American Conference title in 1997. While at Akron, he had the opportunity to work under one of the nation's top coaches in Ken Lolla, formerly the under-15 boys National Team coach. He was also active in coaching at the club level in both Akron and Youngstown.
Prior to beginning his coaching career, Coach Stock served as the Director of Soccer Programs for Athletes in Action Soccer Canada in Vancouver, British Colombia, from 1994 through 1996, and was responsible for directing youth camps, staff training, overseeing the operations of the semi-pro club and administration of international tours.
Stock graduated Summa Cum Laude in accounting at Akron in 1995, and earned a masters degree in business administration from UA in 1998. He played goalkeeper for four seasons on the Zips' men's soccer team and helped lead the team to a Mid-Con championship in 1991 and MAC titles in 1993 and 1995.
Stock earned two MAC Commissioner's Awards for academic excellence during his playing career. Stock played for three seasons with the AIA Football Club, a semi-professional club in Vancouver, B.C., where he helped guide the team to a Pacific Coast Soccer League playoff berth in 1994. He was also named a PCSL all-star in 1996 and was rated as one of the league's top goalkeepers all three seasons.
Stock hails from North Canton, Ohio, and is accredited with National and Advanced National Coaching Diplomas from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. He also served as a head age group coach in the Nevada Olympic Development Program. Coach Stock is also the founder and director of Thunderbird Soccer Schools and has served as a coaching director for the Utah Rush Soccer Club.
He is the current head coach of the Forza FC South club team. He and his wife, Dannon, are the parents of three sons, Andrew (10), Kaleb (8), Nathan (6) and daughter Sarah (4).
