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Sean Topping

Sean Topping

  • Title
    Assistant Athletic Director, Head Men's Soccer Coach
  • Email
    seantopping@muhlenberg.edu
  • Phone
    3383
  • Alma Mater
    Muhlenberg '98

Summary 
• Career record through 2024 season: 232-130-52 (.623) in 22 seasons
• All-time winningest coach in Muhlenberg men’s soccer history
• Four Centennial Conference championships
• Six NCAA Tournament bids
• Two NCAA “Sweet 16” appearances
• Two ECAC championships
• Two-time Centennial Conference coach of the year
• Third in CC history with 101 wins in league games
• Coached 88 all-conference selections and nine All-America selections

Coaching Highlights
2024 Record 12-4-6
• Advanced to Centennial Conference championship game for third straight year
• Received at-large bid to NCAA Tournament for first time since 2010
• Back-to-back seasons of at least 12 wins for first time since 2007-08
• Posted road wins against nationally ranked Dickinson and Franklin & Marshall 
• Centennial Conference scholar-athlete of the year
• Led CC in team goals-against average
2023 Record 13-4-2
• Advanced to Centennial Conference championship game for second straight year
• 13 wins tied most by Muhlenberg since 2014 
• Four all-region selections, most for the Mules since 2014
• Centennial Conference rookie of the year
2022 Record 8-6-8 Centennial Conference Champions
• Won CC championship as fifth seed
• Went on the road three times in six days to claim championship 
• Advanced to second round of NCAA Tournament
• Recorded 200th career win with 4-2 defeat of Juniata
• Coached CC offensive player of the year
2021 Record 10-7-2 ECAC Champions
• Beat top seed in each of tournament's two pods to win second straight title
2020 no season
2019 Record 13-6-2 ECAC Champions
• Outscored four opponents 14-1 to win first ECAC title since 1988
• Team averaged 2.43 goals per game, most since 2003
• Coached Centennial Conference rookie of the year
2018 Record 7-8-2
2017 Record 6-8-3
2016 Record 4-9-3
2015 Record 5-9-2
2014 Record 15-2-3 Centennial Conference Champions, NCAA "Sweet 16"
• Middle Atlantic Region coach of the year
• Centennial Conference coach of the year
• Won CC championship with team picked sixth in preseason poll
• Ranked 12th in final Division III poll
• Coached CC player of the year
2013 Record 10-8-1
• Earned ECAC South Tournament bid
2012 Record 11-5
2011 Record 10-6-1
• Earned CC playoff berth
2010 Record 13-3-6 NCAA "Sweet 16"
• Set school record by going undefeated in first 15 games
• Advanced to CC championship game
• Ranked 12th in final Division III poll
• Outscored opponents 52-14
• Recorded 100th career win with 4-0 shutout of Gettysburg
2009 Record 11-4-2
• Centennial Conference coach of the year
• Won CC regular-season title with 7-1-1 record
• Ranked as high as 18th in Division III
• Coached CC player of the year
2008 Record 12-6-1
• Earned CC playoff berth
2007 Record 12-5
• Finished in three-way tie for CC regular-season title
• Earned at-large bid to NCAA Tournament
2006 Record 8-4-4
• Earned CC playoff berth
2005 Record 13-6 Centennial Conference Champions
• Won CC tournament as third seed
• Ranked as high as 13th in Division III
2004 Record 9-7-3
• Earned CC playoff berth
2003 Record 17-5-1 Centennial Conference Champions
• Went undefeated and untied in the CC
• Reached second round of NCAA Tournament
2002 Record 13-8
• Earned CC playoff berth

Playing Highlights
• Four-year letterwiner for the Mules 
• Co-captain of the 1997 Centennial Conference championship team
• Named to All-CC first team as a back in 1996 and as a midfielder in 1997 
• Earned all-region honors in 1996 and 1997

Coaching Career
• 1999-2000 Assistant coach at Muhlenberg
• 2001 Head coach of men’s and women’s teams at Franklin College in Lugano, Switzerland