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DeRose Coaching Tree News

Two former Bradley Soccer assistants made news Tuesday

Bobby Parker, Associate AD for Communications Soccer 2/5/2020 8:19:00 AM

Two limbs on the Jim DeRose Coaching Tree grew a little larger Tuesday with a pair of announcements related to former Bradley Soccer assistant coaches: Ronnie Bouemboue was named the 10th head coach of the Eastern Illinois men's soccer program and Gavin Glinton was named second assistant coach and assistant director of the high-performance youth program of the New Mexico United USL Championship franchise.

Preparing for his 25th season as Bradley's head coach, DeRose boasts an extensive soccer coaching tree with 13 of the 16 assistant coaches he has mentored at Bradley still working in the profession. Notably, six of his Bradley assistants have gone on to earn NCAA Division I men's soccer head coaching jobs, including current head coaches Brian Barnett (IUPUI), Bouemboue (Eastern Illinois), Jesse Cormier (Florida Gulf Coast) and Brad Ruzzo (Mercer). DeRose's coaching tree also includes his daughter, Raleigh DeRose, who is beginning her fifth year as an assistant coach for the women's soccer program at Brown.

Bouemboue was an assistant coach at Bradley during the 2013 and 2014 seasons, helping the Braves to the 2013 Missouri Valley Conference championship and the second round of the NCAA Tournament. During the 2013 campaign, the Braves knocked off the top-ranked team in the country with a 1-0 victory at #1 Connecticut for just the second win against a nation's No. 1-ranked team by any Braves program in the history of Bradley Athletics. Bradley added a pair of 3-2, overtime road wins at Northwestern in 2013, the first during the regular-season when the Wildcats were ranked No. 3 in the country and the second in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Bouemboue takes over the EIU program after four years at IUPUI, where he was the top assistant for Barnett.

Glinton's connection to the Bradley Soccer program goes back to his playing days, when he was a four-time All-American for the Braves from 1998-2001. A member of the Bradley Athletics and Missouri Valley Conference Halls of Fame, Glinton ended his collegiate career as the all-time leading scorer in Bradley and MVC men's soccer history with 53 career goals. He went on to play professionally in both Major League Soccer (L.A. Galaxy, Dallas Burn and San Jose Earthquakes), as well in USL with the Charleston Battery and Carolina Railhawks. He also served as captain for the Turks and Caicos National Team for 10 years.

Glinton took a brief break from his playing career while recovering from an ankle injury and served as a Bradley Soccer assistant coach during the 2004 season. Glinton moves to New Mexico United from Sacramento Republic FC, where he coached the U13 & U14 Academy teams for the club, which will transition from USL Championship into Major League Soccer's 29th team in 2022.

Ironically, following his collegiate playing career at Northern Vermont-Johnson, DeRose was the goalkeeper for the New Mexico Chiles, Albuquerque's team in the American Professional Soccer League, during the 1990 season.

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