Wofford College Athletics

SPARTANBURG, SC – Wofford College men’s soccer coach Ralph Polson has been elected Vice-President of Conventions and Awards for the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. He will serve a three year term. Election results were announced at the NSCAA annual convention in St. Louis, MO on Friday, January 16, 2009. He just finished a one year term as Secretary of the NSCAA.

Polson has completed his first full season as head coach at Wofford after joining the Terriers after eight years as an assistant coach at College of Charleston. The men’s soccer team posted a 6-13 overall record and was 2-5 in the Southern Conference in 2008. The two conference wins were the most since the 1999 season and the win over Furman was the first in the series since 1982.

Polson holds a USSF A license and has been a member of the USYSA Region III Olympic Development Program coaching staff since 1983. He is a staff coach for the SCYSA State Select Team Program. Since 1992, he has served as the assistant director of the Ralph Lundy Soccer Academy.

He has served as a member of the NSCAA Senior Recognition Committee and served as the NCAA Division II Representative to the NCSAA. Since 2001, he has been NSCAA Division I All-America Committee National Chairman and South Region Chairman. He is also treasurer of the Walt Chyzowych Memorial Fund.

Based in Kansas City, Kansas, the NSCAA is the largest coaches' organization in the United States. Since its founding in 1941, it has grown to include more than 28,000 members who coach both genders at all levels of the sport - youth, high school, college and professional. In addition to a national rankings program for colleges and high schools, NSCAA offers an extensive recognition program that presents nearly 10,000 individual awards every year. It fulfills its mission of coaching education through a nationwide program of clinics and week-long courses, teaching more than 4,000 soccer coaches each year.