The Coan File
Birthday: August 29, 1950
Hometown: Lansing, Michigan
Degree: Neenah High School (Class of 1968)
Coaching Experience:
2022-present: Assistant coach, Green Bay
2020-2022: Goalkeeper/field player trainer (Neenah Soccer Club, Kimberly Area Soccer Club, Oshkosh United Soccer Club)
2020-2022: Goalkeeper trainer (Xavier, New London, Hortonville, Appleton North, and Oshkosh West High Schools)
2008-2019: Assistant coach, Michigan Tech
2008-2012: Varsity coach, Kaukauna High School
2007-2009: Assistant coach, Marian College
2007: JV coach, Kimberly High School
2003-2005: Volunteer assistant, Green Bay
1998-2003: Assistant coach, Marian College
1987-1996: Head coach, Lawrence University
1985-1986: Goalkeeper coach, Lawrence University
1983-1984: Coach, Neenah High School Club Team
1979-1983: Coach, Paper Valley Youth Soccer Club
Honors and awards:
Wisconsin Soccer Hall of Fame in 2015
Worth noting:
Coan played amateur soccer from 1980-2006, participating in numerous leagues. He has been a member of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America since 1987. His plethora of education includes an NSCAA national diploma from UW-Parkside, an NSCAA level III goalkeeping diploma, a USSF national youth license, NSCAA high school coaches’ diploma, NSCAA Diversity Training Course, US Soccer National F License Course, and a Heading Safety Diploma.
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Chuck Coan was hired onto the Green Bay women’s soccer staff in the summer of 2022. He brings a surplus of experience and a wealth of knowledge to the program.
He isn’t new to Green Bay, having the title of goalkeeper coach as a volunteer assistant from 2003-2005 under then-head coach Quinn Ross. After his stint at GB, he spent much of his time in the Fox Valley. Coan was the JV coach at Kimberly high school in 2007 before returning to Marian from 2007-2009. He spent the 2008-2012 seasons as a Kaukauna High School girls' varsity coach. While at Kaukauna, he joined Michigan Tech as an assistant until 2019.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, the Huskies named Coan their caretaker coach. He also started as a goalkeeper/field player trainer at the Neenah Soccer Club, Kimberly Area Soccer Club, and Oshkosh United Soccer Club. Before he returned to GB this year, he was tasked with being a goalkeeper trainer at Xavier, New London, Hortonville, Appleton North, and Oshkosh West high schools.
Coan and his wife Marti have one daughter, Chelsea, and a grandson Eion. They reside in Neenah and have two Irish Wolfhounds named Orla and Paddrick.
