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GRYCZEWSKI
NUMBER POSITION HEIGHT WEIGHT YEAR
11 MIDFIELDER 6-1 165 FRESHMAN
HAWKS TIDBIT: Making starts in 10 of 11 matches, Gryczewski, who tallied his first career assist against Dartmouth, has logged 800 minutes of playing time in 2021.
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SCHEDULE DAY THUR. MON. FRI. MON. SAT. TUE. SAT. TUE. SAT. TUE. SAT. TUE. SAT. WED. SAT. SAT. MON. SAT. WED.
DATE OPPONENT KICKOFF+/RESULT 8/26 HOLY CROSS T, 1-1 (2ot) 8/30 AT VILLANOVA L, 1-2 9/3 BROWN L, 0-2 9/6 AT BOSTON COLLEGE L, 0-2 9/11 AT SACRED HEART T, 1-1 (2ot) 9/14 CENTRAL CONNECTICUT W, 1-0 9/18 AT UMBC* L, 0-3 9/21 AT FAIRFIELD L, 0-1 9/25 NO. 9 NEW HAMPSHIRE* L, 1-4 9/28 DARTMOUTH W, 1-0 10/2 AT STONY BROOK* W, 3-1 10/5 YALE 7 PM 10/9 UALBANY* 7 PM 10/13 AT VERMONT* 7 PM 10/16 BINGHAMTON* 4 PM 10/23 AT UMASS LOWELL* 2 PM 11/1 NJIT* 6 PM 11/6 AMERICA EAST QUARTERFINAL^ TBD 11/10 AMERICA EAST SEMIFINAL^ TBD
SAT.
11/13
AMERICA EAST CHAMPIONSHIP^
TBD
RED - HOME GAMES (AL-MARZOOK FIELD) + ALL TIMES EASTERN AND ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE * AMERICA EAST CONFERENCE OPPONENT | ^ PLAYED AT HIGHEST SEED OF EACH MATCH
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TONIGHT’S MATCH
Fresh off its first America East victory of the season, Hartford returns home to Al-Marzook Field to conclude its non-conference slate against Yale on Tuesday.
INSIDE THE SERIES
Yale leads the all-time series, 13-82. The sides haven’t met since 2017, when Yale claimed a 1-0 victory in New Haven, Conn. Hartford’s last series victory came in 2016, on AlMarzook Field, ending a seven-game drought against the Bulldogs that dated back to 1999.
SCOUTING THE OPPONENT
After a 2-1 start to the season, Yale has gone 1-3-1 in its past five outings. Paolo Carroll leads the Bulldogs with four goals this season, while Kahveh Zahiroleslam and Eric Lagos each have three. Elian Haddock is the only goalkeeper to see time for Yale, notching 32 saves with a 1.34 GAA and two shutouts. The Bulldogs, who
went 13-3-2 and won the Ivy League title during their last season, in 2019, were picked to repeat as league champion in this year’s Ivy Preseason Men’s Soccer Poll.
LAST TIME THEY MET
Yale won, 1-0, at home on Sept. 6, 2017. John Leisman scored just before halftime and the Bulldogs held on the rest of the way. Hartford goalkeeper Jimmy Slayton finished with three saves in the losing effort.
LAST TIME OUT
Hartford defeated Stony Brook, 3-1, for its first America East victory of the season on Saturday. The Hawks led 3-0 on the strength of goals from Olivier Sylvain, Tomer Drimmer and Demario Cameron and nearly earned a shutout, before Stony Brook got on the scoreboard in the game’s closing minutes.
WEEKLY AWARDS
A pair of Hawks received a weekly award from the America East on
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Monday after leading the Hawks to a 2-0 mark last week. Sophomore Rotem Fadida was named the league’s Defensive Player of the Week, while Sylvain, a midfielder, recieved Rookie of the Week distinction. Earning two wins for Hartford in goal — including a shutout victory against the Big Green — Fadida took home his second career weekly honor after making saves on nine of the 10 shots he faced. Sylvain earned his first career award from the league after putting Hartford on the board at Stony Brook with his first career goal in the 42nd minute of action.
NEXT ON TAP
The Hawks will head into the heart of their conference schedule, hosting UAlbany on Saturday at 7 p.m. Hartford holds a 10-9-3 edge in the alltime series.
T AL E O F T H E T A P E
3-6-2
RECORD
3-4-1
W2
STREAK
T1
GOALS
10
9 0.82
GOALS/GAME
1.25
11.2
SHOTS/GAME
10.1
.073
SHOTS %
.123
50-123
SOG-ATT
28-81
.407
SOG %
.346
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ASSISTS
13
57
CORNER KICKS
50
2-2
PK: GOALS-ATT
1-2
1.40
GAA
1.34
39
SAVES
32
.709
SAVE %
.744
AMERICA EAST S T A ND INGS
New Hampshire Binghamton UAlbany Vermont Stony Brook UMBC Hartford NJIT UMass Lowell
OVERALL AE W-L-T PCT W-L-T PTS 11-0-0 1.000 7-2-0 .778 6-3-0 .667 6-3-1 .650 5-4-0 .556 5-5-1 .500 3-6-2 .364 2-6-1 .278 2-7-1 .250
3-0-0 2-0-0 1-1-0 1-1-0 1-2-0 1-2-0 1-2-0 1-2-0 1-2-0
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# Name
Yr. Pos. Ht. Wt.
Hometown/Last School
1
Rotem Fadida
So.
GK
6-0
180
2
Nick Benjamin
Sr.
B
5-8
150
3
Nir Gvili
So.
B
6-1
175
Yehud, Israel
4
Pablo Basarte
Gr.
B
6-0
150
Zaragoza, Spain/Univ. of the District of Columbia
5
Jesus Galvan-Garcia Fr.
B
6-1
170
Blaine, Minn./Centennial
6
Wyatt Leto
So.
M/B
6-0
155
Niskayuna, N.Y./Christian Brothers Acad.
7
Darío Cavada
So.
M
5-10 160
Santoña, Cantabria, Spain/I.E.S Marqués de Manzanedo
8
Babou Sanyang
So.
M
5-8
155
Rockville, Md./Magruder
9
Nadav Datner
Jr.
F
6-1
175
Ya’ad, Israel/Texas A&M International
10 Tomer Drimmer
Sr.
M
5-7
160
Shoham, Israel/Shoham
11
Fr.
M
6-1
165
Plainville, Conn./Plainville
12 Nate Becher
So.
M
5-9
145
Sorrento, Fla./The Woodstock Academy
13 Peter Dakoyannis
Jr.
M
6-1
160
Newton, Mass./Newton South
14 Max Stilb
So.
M
6-2
175
Grafton, Wis./Grafton
15 Demario Cameron
Jr.
M
6-3
185
Kingston, Jamaica/Campbell Univ.
16 Alex Quinones
So.
F
5-9
155
Bedford, N.H./Bedford
17 Justin Rivas
Fr.
M
5-9
155
West Hartford, Conn./Conard
18 Nate DiLoreto
Fr.
GK
6-2
170
Bristol, Conn./Bristol Eastern
19 Alex Cole
Fr.
M
5-7
155
Andover, Minn./Andover
20 Addrian Knights-Browne Jr.
M
5-9
145
Ajax, Ontario/Ajax
22 Jason Addi
Jr.
B
6-2
220
Middletown, Conn./Xavier
23 Olivier Sylvain
Fr.
M
6-2
165
Montreal, Quebec/Heritage
24 Jordon May
So.
M
5-10 160
New Hyde Park, N.Y./St. Francis Prep
26 Rodrigo Levy
So.
B
5-6
140
Cochabamba, Bolivia/Hughes Schools
27 Mevlan Lebiti
Sr.
M
5-8
170
Goshen, Conn./Wamogo
28 Daniel Ikechukwu
Fr.
M/B
5-10 155
31 Trey Sadler
So.
M
6-0
135
Newington, Conn./Newington
32 Alec Boyd
Jr.
B
6-4
210
Glendora, Calif./Glendora
Patrick Gryczewski
Haifa, Israel/Irony Hey
Stonington, Conn./Stonington
Baldwin, N.Y./Baldwin
HEAD COACH TOM POITRAS - 11th Season - Southern Connecticut ’92
ASSISTANT COACHES MIKE KULAS - 11th Season - Southern New Hampshire ’02 QUENTON SWIFT - Third Season - Hartford ’17 GEORGE KOSTELIS - Second Season - Hartford ’93
YALE BULLDOGS (3-4-1 OVERALL, 0-0-1 IVY LEAGUE)
# Name
Yr. Pos. Ht. Wt.
Hometown/Last School
0
Chris Edwards
So.
GK
6-0
200
Benbrook, Texas/Fort Worth Country Day
1
Elian Haddock
Jr.
GK
6-4
195
Whitefish Bay, Wis./Whitefish Bay
2
Will Seidman
Jr.
M
5-11
160
Chappaqua, N.Y./Horace Greeley
165
Reykjavic, Iceland/Reykjavic Junior College
3
Sigfus Arnason
Jr.
B
6-0
4
Jake Schaffer
So.
B
5-10 180
5
Jeremy Haddock
Jr.
B
6-4
6
Daniel Massaad
So.
B
5-10 170
7
Kai Moos
So.
M
5-9
160
Los Altos, Calif./Los Altos
8
Jules Oberg
Jr.
M
6-2
160
Stockholm, Sweden/Berkshire School
9
Eric Lagos
Orchard Park, N.Y./Orchard Park
200
Whitefish Bay, Wis./Whitefish Bay La Jolla, Calif./The Bishop’s School
So.
F
6-1
190
St. Paul, Minn./St. Paul Academy
10 Paolo Carroll
Jr.
F
6-3
187
Sao Paulo, Brazil/Fundação Anglo-Brasileira de Educação e Cultura
11
165
Suwanee, Ga./North Gwinnett
Jr.
B
6-0
12 Sam Harshe
Thomas Toney
Fr.
B/M
5-10 165
13 Enzo Okpoye
Sr.
M
6-2
185
Asaba, Nigeria/Blair Academy
14 Sandor Pelle
Fr.
F/M
5-11
150
Scottsdale, Ariz./Pinnacle
15 Matias Alberola
Fr.
M/B
6-1
165
Denver, Colo./Kent Denver School
16 Gelber Lemus
Fr.
B
5-8
150
Gaithersburg, Md./Gaithersburg
17 Jonathan Seidman
Fr.
M
5-10 145
Chappaqua, N.Y./Horace Greeley
18 Jamie Orson
Fr.
B
6-3
185
Dexter, Mich./Dexter
Atlanta, Ga./Druid Hills
19 George Stamboulidis Fr. M
6-0 160
20 Olivier Van Spaendonck So.
F/M
6-3
165
Westport, Conn./Staples
21 Ryan Cote
Fr.
M
5-11
155
Highlands Ranch, Colo./Arapahoe
22 TJ Presthus
Fr.
B
6-0
175
New Albany, Ohio/New Albany Phoenix, Ariz./Phoenix Country Day
Melbourne, Australia/Carey Baptist School
23 Quanah Brayboy
Fr.
M
5-7
145
24 Kahveh Zahiroleslam
So.
F
6-4
170
Saratoga, Calif./Prospect
26 Justin Harris
Fr.
B
6-2
150
Superior Township, Mich./Detroit Country Day School
27 Yasin Aly
Fr.
B
6-0
175
West Orange, N.J./Northfield Mount Hermon
29 Conrad Lee
Fr.
GK
6-4
195
Livington, Mont./Ballard
HEAD COACH KYLIE STANNARD - Seventh Season - Creighton ’01
ASSISTANT COACHES CHARLES RODRIGUEZ - Third Season - UNC Charlotte ’12 BILL SCHMID - Third Season - Springfield ’16 STEWART FRANK - Second Season - Springfield ’19 #FLYHIGH HARTFORD HAWKS //
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rotem FADIDA
2
nick BENJAMIN
SR | BACK
3
nir GVILI
5
jesus
6
wyatt LETO
SO | MIDFIELDER/BACK
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9
nadav DATNER
10 DRIMMER
tomer
11
13
peter
14 STILB
SO | GOALKEEPER
GALVAN-GARCIA
FR | BACK
JR | FORWARD
DAKOYANNIS JR | MIDFIELDER
SR | MIDFIELDER
max
SO | MIDFIELDER
4
pablo BASARTE
dario CAVADA
8
babou SANYANG
patrick
12 BECHER
SO | BACK
SO | MIDFIELDER
GRYCZEWSKI FR | MIDFIELDER
Demario
15 CAMERON
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JR | MIDFIELDER
GR | BACK
SO | MIDFIELDER
nate
SO | MIDFIELDER
alex
16 QUINONES
SO | FORWARD
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justin
nate
17 RIVAS
FR | MIDFIELDER
jason
22 ADDI
FR | GOALKEEPER
olivier
JR | BACK
melvan
27 LEBITI
SR | MIDFIELDER
TOM POITRAS HEAD COACH 11th Season
18 DiLORETO
23 SYLVAIN
FR | MIDFIELDER
28
daniel
IKECHUKWU
FR | MIDFIELDER/BACK
MIKE KULAS ASSISTANT COACH 11th Season
alex
19 COLE
FR | MIDFIELDER
jordon
24 MAY
SO | MIDFIELDER
trey
20
addrian
KNIGHTS-BROWNE
JR | MIDFIELDER
rodrigo
26 LEVY
SO | BACK
alec
31 sadler
32 BOYD
QUENTON SWIFT
GEORGE KOSTELIS GOALKEEPER COACH 2nd Season
SO | MIDFIELDER
ASSISTANT COACH 3rd Season
JR | BACK
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HARTFORD HAWKS 2021-22 Hartford Men's Soccer Overall Team Statistics All games 2021 T EA M S T A T I S T I CS
Game Records
OVERALL: 3-6-2 Home
Overall
Conference
1 - 2 -1-2-0 0 AMERICA EAST:
3-6-2
Team statistics
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2-2-1 HOME: 2-2-1
Neutral
0-0-0 AWAY: 1-4-1
1-4-1
SHOT STATISTICS Goals-Shot attempts Goals scored per game Shot pct. Shots on goal-Attempts SOG pct. Shots/Game Assists GOAL BREAKDOWN Total Goals Penalty Unassisted Overtime Goals scored average CORNER KICKS Goals off corners PENALTY KICKS OFFSIDES PENALTIES Fouls Yellow cards Red cards ATTENDANCE Total Dates/Avg Per Date Neutral Site #/Avg Goals by Periods Team Hart Opponents
Corners by Periods 1st 2nd OT1 OT2 TOTAL Team 9 Hart 4 5 0 0 7 9 16 Opponents 0 0
Shots by Periods Team Hart Opponents
1st 2nd OT1 OT2 49 65 5 4 66 80 1 0
Saves by Periods Team Hart Opponents
Offsides by Periods 1st 2nd OT1 OT2 TOTAL Team 40 Hart 15 25 0 0 17 23 1 41 Opponents 0
Fouls by Periods TOTAL Team 123 Hart 147 Opponents
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HART
OPP
9-123 0.82 .073 50-123 .407 11.2 6
16-147 1.45 .109 56-147 .381 13.4 15
9 2 0 0.82 57 2-2 13
16 2 0 1.45 60 2-3 10
151 17 0
145 15 2
2247 5/449 0/0
3098 6/516 -
1st 2nd OT1 OT2 TOTAL 34 19 1 3 57 25 33 2 60 0 1st 2nd OT1 OT2 62 86 3 0 67 72 2 4
TOTAL 151 145
1st 2nd OT1 OT2 7 5 1 0 7 3 0 0
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2021-22 Hartford Men's Soccer Extended Individual Statistics All games Game Records
Overall
Conference 1-2-0
Team Box Score Extended No. Player 10 Drimmer, Tomer 20 Knights-Browne, Addrian 15 Cameron, Demario 9 Datner, Nadav 23 Sylvain, Olivier 11 Gryczewski, Patrick 7 Cavada, Dario 4 Basarte, Pablo 2 Benjamin, Nick 24 May, Jordon 3 Gvili, Nir 12 Becher, Nate 6 Leto, Wyatt 8 Sanyang, Baboucarr 18 DiLoreto, Nate 1 Fadida, Rotem 32 Boyd, Alec 16 Quinones, Alex 27 Lebiti, Mevlan 17 Rivas, Justin 22 Addi, Jason 14 Stilb, Max Total Opponents
Goals by Periods Team
Away
Neutral
2021 I N D I VI DUAL S T A T I S T ICS
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## Player 18 DiLoreto, Nate 1 Fadida, Rotem TM TEAM Total Opponents
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GP-GS G 11-11 3 11-10 3 11-10 1 6-6 1 11-11 1 11-10 0 10-2 0 10-10 0 11-11 0 11-5 0 11-11 0 10-5 0 8-3 0 4-0 0 1-0 0 11-11 0 1-0 0 4-0 0 1-0 0 4-1 0 8-3 0 2-1 0 11 9 11 16
GP-GS 1-0 11-11 11 11 1st
2nd
2-2-1
GPG A 0.27 2 0.27 0 0.09 1 0.17 0 0.09 0 0.00 1 0.00 1 0.00 1 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.82 6 1.45 15
APG PTS 0.18 8 0.00 6 0.09 3 0.00 2 0.00 2 0.09 1 0.10 1 0.10 1 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.55 24 1.36 47
MINUTES 45:00 985:00 00:00 1030:00 1030:00
GA 0 16 0 16 9
PPG SH SPG 0.73 17 1.55 0.55 22 2.00 0.27 2 0.18 0.33 17 2.83 0.18 15 1.36 0.09 11 1.00 0.10 8 0.80 0.10 7 0.70 0.00 6 0.55 0.00 6 0.55 0.00 5 0.45 0.00 3 0.30 0.00 3 0.38 0.00 1 0.25 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 2.18 123 11.18 4.27 147 13.36
GAAVG 0.00 1.46 0.00 1.40 0.79
SAVES 1 38 1 40 41
1-4-1
0-0-0
SH% SOG SOG/G SOG% YC RC GWG PK-ATT .176 7 0.64 .412 2 0 1 2-2 .136 10 0.91 .455 2 0 2 0-0 .500 1 0.09 .500 2 0 0-0 0 .059 10 1.67 .588 0 0 0-0 0 .067 6 0.55 .400 1 0 0-0 0 .000 2 0.18 .182 1 0 0-0 0 0-0 .000 2 0.20 .250 1 0 0 0-0 .000 2 0.20 .286 0 0 0 .000 2 0.18 .333 0 0 0-0 0 .000 2 0.18 .333 2 0 0-0 0 .000 1 0.09 .200 3 0 0-0 0 .000 2 0.20 .667 0 0 0-0 0 .000 2 0.25 .667 1 0 0-0 0 .000 1 0.25 1.000 0 0 0-0 0 .000 0-0 0 0.00 .000 0 0 0 .000 0-0 0 0.00 .000 1 0 0 0-0 .000 0 0.00 .000 0 0 0 0-0 .000 0 0.00 .000 1 0 0 .000 0-0 0 0.00 .000 0 0 0 .000 0-0 0 0.00 .000 0 0 0 .000 0-0 0 0.00 .000 0 0 0 .000 0-0 0 0.00 .000 0 0 0 .073 50 4.55 .407 17 0 - 2-2 .109 56 5.09 .381 15 2 - 2-3 SAVES/G 1.00 3.45 0.09 3.64 3.73
SAVES% W 1.000 0 .704 3 1.000 0 .714 3 .820 6
L 0 6 0 6 3
T 0 2 0 2 2
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OT2
Corners by Periods TOTAL Team
1st
2nd
OT1
OT2
SHO/CBO 0/0 2/0 0/0 2 4
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POITRAS Entering his 11th season at the helm of the Hartford men’s soccer team in 2021, Tom Poitras has helped establish the Hawks as a perennial power in the America East Conference since his arrival, in 2011. Backed by 27 years of head coaching experience that features a career record of 268182-73, the 45th-best career win percentage among all active NCAA Division I men’s soccer coaches, Poitras has proven to be a success everywhere he has coached, and Hartford is no exception. Since taking over at the helm of the Hawks, Poitras has amassed a record of 77-79-34, making him the second-winningest coach in the program’s 37-year Division I history. In addition, he has piloted Hartford to the title match of the America East Tournament five times, with the most recent coming in an historic 2019 campaign. During the unprecedented 2020-21 season, which was played in the 2021 spring season due to COVID-19, the Hawks posted a 3-3-1 record against America East foes. Landing six All-Conference honorees — including a pair of First Team selections — Hartford came up short to New Hampshire, the eventual America East Champion, in the semifinals of the conference tournament. The 2019 campaign was one for the books for Poitras and his Hawks, who advanced to the America East Championship Game for the fifth time under his watch before falling to New Hampshire. Hartford posted the nation’s top single-season turnaround that season, posting the second-best winning percentage (.667) and the second-most victories under Poitras after finishing with a 12-5-4 overall record. It was an 11-win improvement from the previous season. Poitras’ defense posted 10 shutouts in 2019, the second-most in Hartford’s Division I history behind his 2013 squad, which shut out a program-best 11 opponents. In addition, with a shutout percentage of .476, Hartford ranked 17th in the nation in the category. Another significant mark in program history was also reached in 2019, when the Hawks strung together an 11-game unbeaten streak for the best stretch of games without a loss since Hartford became a Division I team in 1984. Poitras’ coaching philosophy — one that puts emphasis on defense and teamwork — has played a major role in the program’s success. In 2013, the Hawks shut out 11
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opponents, the most in the program’s Division I history, while holding opponents to a school-record goals-against average of 0.81, which was the 32nd-best mark in the nation.
TOM POITRAS’ CAREER HIGHLIGHTS 25TH-MOST WINS AMONG ACTIVE DI COACHES 268-182-73 CAREER RECORD 45TH-BEST WIN % AMONG ACTIVE DI COACHES .582 CAREER WIN % CONFERENCE COACH OF THE YEAR 1996 NCAA TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2009 CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS 2000, 2002, 2009 AE TOURNAMENT FINALIST 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2019 13 NSCAA ALL-AMERICANS 46 ALL REGION HONOREES 117 ALL-CONFERENCE HONOREES
The turnaround and upward trajectory of the Hartford men’s soccer program was evident not long after Poitras’ arrival. During his first four years, he piloted the Hawks to the title match of the America East Championship three times. In just two years, he turned a five-win team into a squad that posted back-to-back double-digit win seasons in 2013 and 2014 for the first time in 15 years. During that stretch, Poitras led the 2013 squad to 13 wins and a.714 winning percentage, both of which are the secondbest marks in Hartford’s Division I history. A key milestone for both Poitras and the Hartford men’s soccer program was reached in 2013 when Damion Lowe, a three-year defender, became the first Hawk in 17 years to get drafted by a Major League Soccer squad. Lowe was drafted eighth overall by the Seattle Sounders, marking the second-highest pick among all of Hartford’s 17 Division I sports. During Poitras’ coaching career, more than 20 of his players have gone on to play professionally. Poitras’ success has translated from the pitch into the classroom, where Hartford has thrived academically. Since his arrival, the Hawks have landed 23 America East All-Academic Team members, including a program-record four in both 2013 and 2014. The Hawks have also produced a pair of America East Elite 18 honorees, an honor that recognizes the student-athlete with the highest GPA among all participants in the America East Championship Game, as Jake Slomski and Jimmy Slayton have earned the distinction in 2016 and 2019, respectively. Under Poitras, the men’s soccer team was in the front of the pack in the classroom in 2021, leading Hartford’s men’s squads with a 3.53 GPA during the spring semester. Most impressively, 85 percent of last year’s roster — a total of 23 student-athletes — received America East Academic Honor Roll distinction after posting a GPA of 3.0 or better that semester. Prior to arriving at Hartford, Poitras was the head coach at the University of Wisconsin-
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Green Bay, where he piloted the Phoenix to four Horizon League Championship Game appearances in seven seasons. Most impressively, Poitras guided UW-Green Bay to an historic 2009 season that saw the program earn its first-ever Horizon League Championship and NCAA Division I Tournament appearance, the team’s first in 26 years. Before UW-Green Bay, Poitras spent six years at Southern New Hampshire where he amassed a record of 81-25-16, which included four NCAA Division II Tournament appearances and five seasons with 10-plus victories. In 2002, Poitras took the Penmen to the NCAA Division II Championship Game and was named the NSCAA New England Region Coach of the Year. Poitras’ coaching career began with a four-year stint at the University of New Haven, where he orchestrated one of the nation’s top single-season turnarounds, lifting the Chargers to back-to-back 10-win seasons after inheriting a squad that posted just five victories prior to his arrival. Selected as the New England Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year in 1996, Poitras culminated a 15-6-1 mark in the 1997 season. Poitras played collegiate soccer at Southern Connecticut State from 1987-91, serving as a four-year starter for the Owls while leading the team to a Division II National Championship in 1987. After graduating from Southern Connecticut in 1992 with a bachelor’s degree in recreation and leisure studies, he went on the play two seasons at the professional level with the Connecticut Wolves of the Interregional Soccer League. Poitras holds his USSF ‘A’ coaching license and USSF National Youth License while recently receiving an NSCAA Premier Diploma. He currently works as a US Soccer Developmental Academy Scout and has served as an Olympic Development staff coach both in Region I and Region II. Additionally, he was a USSF Coaches Licensing Program Associate Director in Connecticut. Poitras and his wife, Alison, reside in Southington, Conn. with their children, Ian and Ella.
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