Men's Soccer Coaching Staff
Head Coach Dan Perritano
Dan
Perritano is preparing to enter his seventeenth season as the head
coach of the men's soccer program. He has guided the team to eleven
winning seasons in the last thirteen years, including four Allegheny
Mountain Collegiate Conference Championships, in 1997, 1999, 2003,
and 2007. Perritano’s 175 wins as the men’s soccer coach make him
the winningest coach in the history of the program, which began in
1960. He has twice been selected by his peers as AMCC Coach of the
Year, with those honors coming in 1997 and 2003.
Last season, the Behrend Lions registered a 13-8-1 record while earning the program’s third bid to the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships. Previously, during the 2007 season, the Behrend Lions tied the school record for wins earning a 14-5-3 record en route to the 2007 AMCC Title and a berth into the NCAA Tournament.
In 2005, the blue and white went 12-7
overall and earned a birth in the ECAC Tournament, which marked the third
time since 2000 the squad advanced beyond the AMCC Tournament.
In 2003, the blue and white flourished under Perritano's direction. The team
earned their third AMCC conference tournament championship with a 1-0 win
over Frostburg. Perritano earned his second honor as AMCC Coach of the Year
while the program posted a school record 14 wins and advanced to the
first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance.
Perritano was also the Behrend women’s soccer coach for nine seasons, from
1995 to 2003. Prior to the 2004 season, to strengthen his program, coach
Perritano relinquished his duties as head women's soccer coach at Behrend
after an incredible run to focus on the men's program. As women’s coach the
Behrend Lions dominated the conference winning four AMCC championships and
placed second in another three. They earned three bids to the ECAC
Tournament and the program's first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance. His
women's record at Behrend stands at 109-57-11 to go along with a 58-20-4
women's mark from two previous coaching stops.
Perritano enters the 2009 season with 342 men's and women's coaching
victories in his illustrious career. He also holds an NSCAA Premier Diploma,
USSF "B" and National Youth Coaching Licenses, and a Brazilian Football
Federation Coaching Certificate.
His interest in the game goes beyond coaching. In the summer of 2006
Perritano took the Behrend men to Germany to compete and experience the
culture of the host nation of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In the summer of
2005 Perritano coached several of the region's finest Division III players
in five games in Brazil including a contest in Maracana Stadium. He has
attended both the European Cup Finals in London in 1996 and the World Cup
Finals in 1994 in Los Angeles and has served on the NCAA Northeast region
Selection Committee and as a coaching clinician and state coach for PA West
ODP as well as guest coaching at various camps and clinics including a
summer 2003 soccer camp in Alaska.
In addition to his coaching responsibilities, Perritano is also a lecturer
of health and physical education.
E-mail Head Coach Dan Perritano: dpp2@psu.edu
Assistant Daniel Mudd
Daniel Mudd enters his first season as an assistant coach for the Behrend Lions. Mudd played goalkeeper for the Mercyhurst for four seasons, while earning All-GLIAC, All-PSAC, and All-Region honors for the Lakers.
In his freshman season he was tabbed as the Lakers Freshman of the Year, and two seasons later was selected as the program’s MVP. Mudd earned his degree from Mercyhurst in educational studies in 2009.
Assistant William Banks
William Banks will begin his first season as an assistant coach for Penn State Behrend this fall.
Banks was a four-year letterwinner at Heidelberg University. He started all four seasons in the midfield while guiding the program to back-to-back playoff appearances during his junior and season seasons. Banks will graduate with a degree in Biology in 2009.