Women's Soccer
| Chris Flint | ||
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Title | Head Women's Soccer Coach |
| cflint@bryant.edu | ||
| Phone | 401.232.6511 | |
One of the most respected and top coaches in New England, Bryant University head women's soccer coach Chris Flint has built the Bryant program into one of the region's best teams during the past seven seasons.
Recently completing his eighth season at the helm of the women's soccer program in the fall of 2007, Flint will guide the Bulldogs into Division I where the school will make a transition to the highest level and become a full member of the Northeast Conference.
Under Flint's direction, the Bulldogs have produced 13 or more wins in the past six seasons and have cracked the top-25 national poll on a regular basis.
In 2007, the Bulldogs set a new school record with 17 victories and advanced to their second consecutive NCAA tournament. During the course of the season, the Bulldogs reached a No. 2 national ranking thanks to a 2-1 win over nationally-ranked Franklin Pierce at the Bryant Turf Complex.
The Bulldogs placed two standouts on the NSCAA All-American team including Danielle Malta who was also named as an Academic All-American by the NSCAA in 2007. Five players were named all-region as the Bulldogs finished the year ranked No. 13 nationally.
Since 2003, Bryant has won 95 games including 56 in the tough Northeast-10 Conference.
He guided the Bulldogs to a then-school record 15 wins in 2006, including an appearance in the Northeast-10 Championship ann an NCAA Tournament Selection. Four players earned all-conference honors in 2006, including Casey Grange, who set school records for goals in a season and a career and became the first Bulldog to score 100 career points. Grange also became the first Bulldog to be an All-American selection.
Flint also won his 100th career game on October 8 against Holy Family.
In 2005, Bryant was ranked No. 2 regionally and as high as No. 12 nationally with a record of 13-6-2, just missing out on an NCAA playoff berth.
Four players earned all-conference honors in 2005, including Hannah Sandrowski who was named first team all-conference and tabbed by the coaches as the Defensive Player of the Year in the NE-10. It marked the second-straight year the Bulldogs had four representatives on the all-conference squad following a 13-win season back in 2004.
Flint's 2003 squad set a school record with 14 victories and a fourth-place conference finish with a 9-4-1 league mark.
In 2002, the Bulldogs opened the season with a national preseason ranking of No. 24 and was ranked as high as No. 12, another program best. Flint also directed the Bulldogs to their first back-to-back winning seasons in school history. In 2001 the Bulldogs amassed a 13-8 overall record, and went 10-4 in the Northeast-10 Conference. They gained a national ranking for the first time, reached the semifinals of the conference tournament and qualified for the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history.
It came as no surprise, then, when Flint was a runaway winner of the Northeast-10 Conference coach of the year award and also was named the NSCAA Northeast Region Division II coach of the year and the NEWISA coach of the year.
Flint came to Bryant after spending four seasons as the head coach at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. After going 3-14-0 in his first year, Flint led Massachusetts College to its first winning season in five years with a 10-8-0 showing in 1998. His squad finished the 1999 season with a 9-9-1 overall record which included two wins against teams that reached the NCAA tournament.
Before joining the staff at Massachusetts College, Flint spent one year as a graduate assistant men's soccer coach at Springfield College. He also has worked as an assistant baseball coach at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Dover, N.H., and as assistant soccer and alpine ski coach at Dover (N.H.) High School. Flint also served as the girls director of coaching for the Rhode Island Olympic Development Program.
Flint is a 1992 graduate of Colby College, where he was a standout for the White Mule soccer team. He led Colby in scoring in three of his four seasons and was an All-New England selection as a junior.
He earned his undergraduate degree in business administration before adding a master's degree in sport management from Springfield in 1995.
He holds a premier coaching diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America and has also served on the NCAA Division III women's soccer regional advisory committee.
This season he will serve on the Division II All-America Committee as the New England representative. Additionally, Flint was named Bryant's Assistant Director of Athletics / Recruiting Coordinator in 2003.
Originally from Brookline, N.H., Flint and his wife, Karen, have two sons, Andrew (8) and Tucker (5), and reside in Barrington, R.I.
