Coaching Staff

Head coach: Daniel J. Krzyzanowicz

FC Buffalo skipper Daniel J. Krzyzanowicz ("Coach K") recently completed his tenth season as the head coach of the Medaille College men’s soccer program.  During his tenure at Medaille he has transformed them into a national power in NCAA DIII soccer.  The team achieved unprecedented success in 2010 by making the NCAA Sweet 16 and his team was the first team in Medaille College or AMCC Conference history to reach the third round of the NCAA tournament.  His squads have achieved tremendous success including winning FIVE consecutive undefeated AMCC Regular Season Championships from 2005 to 2009.  Medaille also won the AMCC Playoff Championship and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2010.  They have advanced to at least the second round three times in 2006, 2009, and 2010, and have twice been eliminated from the NCAA tournament by the National Champions in 2008 and 2010.

His teams have spent at least one week Nationally Ranked in the top 25 during the past five seasons, including finishing rankings in the Top 25 during the 2006 (No. 16), 2009 (No. 23) and 2010 (No. 16).  The 2010 season saw the team make an amazing run in the national tournament beating nationally-ranked and regional power University of Rochester.  Then in the second round they had to play the host school and No. 7 ranked Swarthmore College, winning  in penalty kicks before falling to eventual national champions Messiah College.

Coach Krzyzanowicz was named the 2009, 2005, and 2002 Conference Coach of the Year and was honored in 2009 by the Am Pol Eagle as their Citizen of the Year in the sports category.  In Coach K’s nine seasons at Medaille his teams have played in the conference championship match a remarkable eight times.  Because of these successes, Medaille soccer players and the team appear over twenty times in the NCAA Men’s Soccer Record Book.