2020-21 PENN STATE MEN’S SOCCER
ASSISTANT COACHES GREG DALBY
CLINT LONG
Associate Head Coach Third Season Notre Dame ’07
Assistant Coach First Season Cal State Stanislaus ’14
Greg Dalby enters his third season on the men’s soccer staff in 202021 after being hired by head coach Jeff Cook in February 2018. Dalby was promoted to Associate Head Coach in February 2020 after serving as an assistant coach for the previous two seasons. At Penn State, Dalby helps with all aspects of the program including, but not limited to: recruiting, session planning, individual player development form management, and camp planning. In 2019, Dalby helped lead the Nittany Lions to their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2014 after a 12-3-3 regular-season record. He assisted in coaching senior Aaron Molloy to be Big Ten Midfielder of the Year, First Team All-Big Ten, Second Team All-American, and Mac Hermann Trophy Semifinalist.
Clint Long enters his first season as a men’s soccer assistant coach in 2020 after being hired by head coach Jeff Cook in March 2020. Long is specifically in charge of the Nittany Lion goalkeepers. Long comes to Penn State from Oregon State where he was an assistant coach for the Beavers during the 2018 and 2019 seasons. The Beavers finished back-to-back seasons with Long on staff with winning records for the first time since 2002-03. He managed all aspects of goalkeeping at Oregon State and helped the defensive unit by planning and executing training curriculum. The Beavers posted four shutouts during the 2018 season with a 1.12 goals against average. The defense had five shutouts and a 1.14 goals against average in 2019. Long also assisted in the development of three first team Pac-12 AllConference players in 2019, the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year in 2018, and two 2018 MLS SuperDraft picks.
Dalby came to Happy Valley after being the lead assistant coach at Davidson College from 2015-17. At Davidson, Dalby was responsible for recruiting and talent development among a wide range of other duties. Prior to his time at Davidson, Dalby served as the assistant coach of his alma mater, Notre Dame, where he helped the squad to a 2013 NCAA Championship as well as a 2012 Big East Tournament Championship and back-to-back ACC regular season championships in 2013 and 2014.
Prior to Oregon State, Long spent the 2017 season as an assistant coach at Otterbein University in Ohio. The Cardinals finished the season ranked 11th nationally in NCAA Division III, riding a 17-game win streak to finish with a 19-3 record.
Dalby spent seven years as a professional soccer player, starting his career in the Belgian Premiere League at Royal Club Sporting Charleroi before moving on to the Colorado Rapids Major League Soccer Club where he played for two seasons. Dalby closed his professional career at the Charlotte Eagles where he spent two seasons as cocaptain. Throughout his time in professional soccer, Dalby served on the U.S. Soccer Athlete Council where he contributed to the drafting and implementation of new legislation to benefit the athletes.
The Cardinals were the OAC Tournament Champions and finished conference play with an undefeated record. The Otterbein staff was named the Great Lakes Regional Staff of the Year while leading the team to a NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen appearance.
As an NCAA student-athlete, Dalby played four years at Notre Dame where he was a two-year team captain, leading the Fighting Irish to back-to-back Big East regular-season championships in 2003 and 2004. Dalby was a NSCAA first-team All-American as well as a M.A.C. Herman Trophy semifinalist in 2005 and 2006. He was also named Big East Midfielder of the Year and garnered first-team All-Big East honors twice.
As a student-athlete, Long played at California State University Stanislaus from 2012-14. He was a three-time team captain, leading the Warriors to a 2012 CCAA Championship, the first and only in school history, as well as an NCAA Tournament appearance. Long was also the 2012 Cal State Stanislaus Newcomer of the Year.
Dalby earned Big East Academic All-Star team honors for three seasons and was captain of the United States U-20 men’s national team in the FIFA Youth World Cup in 2005. Dalby served as the men’s soccer Student-Athlete Advisory Council representative and was awarded Notre Dame’s prestigious Byron V. Kanaley Award, recognizing senior athletes who excelled as both students and leaders. Dalby and his wife, Stacey, have three children, Addilynn, Miles and Brayden.
Long coached the goalkeepers and the defense to 11 shutouts in 2017 and a 0.82 goals against average on the year. He helped develop one All-American, four all-region players, the OAC Defender of the Year, seven all-conference honorees, and six All-Ohio Team players.
Long also had coaching stops at his alma mater, Cal State Stanislaus, as the women’s soccer assistant coach, UC-Merced as an assistant men’s soccer coach, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University as an assistant/interim head men’s soccer coach.
Long totaled 5,096 minutes as the Warriors’ goalkeeper, second most in program history. He held a career .788 save percentage and posted 14 shutouts from 2012-14, both second most in the school record books. Long also holds the Cal State Stanislaus single-season records for goals against average (0.83) and saves (98) as well as the record for career wins in net with 26. He also spent two seasons at Oregon State as a goalkeeper. After college he had playing stints for PDL clubs Midland Odessa Sockers and Fresno Fuego before advancing to the USL with the Sacramento Republic. Long earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from Cal State Stanislaus in 2014 and is currently working on a MBA from Otterbein University.
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