Maryland Soccer Camps

Cirovski Highlights:

• 2018, 2008, 2005 NCAA Champions
• 28 NCAA postseason appearances with Maryland (22 straight)
• Three Big Ten Tournament Championships (2014, 2015, 2016)
• Three Big Ten Regular Season Championships (2014, 2016, 2022)
• Six Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championships (1996, 2002, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013)
• Nine appearances at the College Cup (1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2018)
• Two NCAA postseason appearances with Hartford
• Two North Atlantic Conference championships
• Four Atlantic Coast Conference regular season titles
• 26 straight winning seasons (1994-2019)
• 28 straight fall seasons with 10+ wins
• School-record 23 wins in 2008
• School-record 15 shutouts in 2008, 2010
• School-record 66 goals in 2005

• MAC Hermann Trophy winners Jason Garey (2005) and Patrick Mullins (2012, 2013)
• 10 Conference Players of the Year (Leo Cullen, 1997; Jason Garey, 2005; Chris Seitz, 2006; Omar Gonzalez, 2007; Patrick Mullins, 2013; Gordon Wild (o), Alex Crognale (d), Cody Niedermeier (gk), 2016; Eryk Williamson (mf), 2017: Ben Bender (mf), 2021)
• One National Freshman of the Year (Taylor Twellman, 1998)
• Three Conference Freshman of the Year (Jeremy Hall, 2006; Patrick Mullins, 2010; Joshua Bolma, 2021)
• 53 first team all-conference selections
• 34 All-America honors
• Nine Conference Tournament MVPs (Pierre Venditti, 1996; Abe Thompson, 2002; Jeremy Hall, 2008; Zac MacMath, 2010; Patrick Mullins, 2012 and 2013; Mael Corboz (o), 2014 and Zack Steffen (d), 2014; Tsubasa Endoh (o), 2015 and Cody Niedermeier (d), 2015; Gordon Wild (o), Alex Crognale (d), 2016)
• 10 MAC Hermann Trophy Award finalists

• 13 US Men’s National Team Players.
• 21 Players that have appeared for full national teams.
• Six Players Named to FIFA World Cup squads: Dayne St. Clair (2022, Canada), Rodney Wallace (2018, Costa Rica), Omar Gonzalez (2014, USA), Graham Zusi (2014, USA), Maurice Edu (2010, USA), Clarence Goodson (2010, USA)
• Four Olympians.
• One MLS MVP (Taylor Twellman).
• One MLS Goalkeeper of the Year (Zack Steffen).
• One MLS Defender of the Year (Omar Gonzalez).
• One MLS Golden Boot Winner (Taylor Twellman 2x).
• One MLS Comeback Player of the Year (Rodney Wallace).
• Two MLS Young Player of the Year selections (Maurice Edu, 2006 and Omar Gonzalez, 2009)
• Eight MLS All-Stars.
• Six MLS Best XI selections.
• Three No. 1 picks in the MLS collegiate draft (Leo Cullen, 1998, Maurice Edu, 2006, Ben Bender, 2021)
• 49 players selected in the MLS SuperDraft
• Seven MLS homegrown signees.

Cirovski has turned Maryland into the preeminent producer of professional soccer talent among college teams in the United States. Terps have participated in three consecutive FIFA World Cups and 12 Terps have earned caps for the US Men’s National Team. Cirovski has developed 49 MLS SuperDraft picks and seven MLS homegrown signings. Cirovski has produced six players that have appeared at the FIFA Men’s World Cup.

Some of the most prominent players in the last 20 years of American soccer, including Taylor Twellman, Maurice Edu, Robbie Rogers, Clarence Goodson, Omar Gonzalez. Zack Steffen and Graham Zusi have gone from Ludwig Field to professional stardom.With established stalwarts like Steffen, Gonzalez, Zusi and AJ DeLaGarza, along with up-and-coming talents including Ben Bender, Eryk Williamson, Donovan Pines, Chase Gasper and Dayne St. Clair, Maryland players will continue to play a major part in the future of North American soccer.

Under Cirovski’s guidance, the Terps have brought fans out to Ludwig Field in record numbers. Maryland was tops in attendance nationally in 2016, averaging over 4,000 fans per game and 52,189 total. The Terps also led the country in attendance in 2019. Cirovski’s efforts to build a winning team that plays an exciting brand of soccer are only matched by his efforts to build Ludwig Field into one of the top soccer venues in the country.

In 2022, Cirovski led Maryland to the Big Ten Regular Season title and a top-10 national ranking for the majority of the year. The Terps went 11-3-5, securing its 28th consecutive fall season with 10+ wins. The Terps are now 48-21-7 under Cirovski in the NCAA Tournament. The Terrapins have won three national titles since 2000, tied with Stanford and Indiana for the most in the nation in that span.

Cirovski led the Terps to the NCAA Tournament for the 21st straight NCAA Tournament in 2021, the second longest streak for any program in the country and the longest for any single head coach. The NCAA Tournament berth gave Cirovski 29 for his career, the most of any men’s coach in Division I history. The Terps went 12-4-2 and featured the Big Ten Midfielder of the Year Ben Bender and Big Ten Freshman of the Year Joshua Bolma.

The 2020 season, delayed till the spring of 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, saw Cirovski guide the Terps from an 0-3 start to their 20th consecutive NCAA Tournament and 26th overall in his time at Maryland. Cirovski also won his 400th match as Maryland head coach during the season, becoming just the sixth coach in NCAA history to win 400 games at one Division I program. The Terps also had four players selected to the All-Big Ten team and had a program record 14 student-athletes earn Big Ten All-Academic honors.

In 2019, Cirovski’s squad was the top-ranked team in the nation to begin the year and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the 25th time in his tenure. The Terps saw six players earn All-Big Ten honors and had a school record eight players receive Academic All-Big Ten plaudits. Matt Di Rosa was named the program’s eighth CoSIDA Academic All-American during Cirovski’s tenure and Johannes Bergmann, an All-Big Ten First Team selection, was also selected as a Big Ten Postgraduate Scholarship winner.

Cirovski also saw the continued progression of his former players into international duty, with Chase Gasper earning his first US National Team appearance and Zack Steffen solidifying himself as the top goalkeeper on the USMNT. As of August of 2019, the Terps had the most former players of any college program plying their trade in MLS.

The 2018 campaign saw Cirovski lead Maryland back to the top of the college soccer world as Maryland captured its fourth national championship and third under Cirovski’s leadership. The Terps rebounded from a 4-5-3 start to finish the season on a 9-1-1 tear. Maryland did not give up a goal in the NCAA Tournament becoming the first team in program history to go through a tournament not scored upon. The title made Cirovski the ninth coach to win at least three NCAA Division I Championships.

Cirovski’s squad started it’s title campaign at home against NC State before ripping off road victories against sixth-seeded Duke and third-seeded Kentucky to advance to the College Cup. The Terps then topped Big Ten rival second-seeded Indiana in the semifinals before beating Akron in the national title match. Maryland’s stingy back line was led by second-team All-American center back Donovan Pines and All-Region goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair. Cirovski’s offense was led by senior captain Amar Sejdic, who was named the most outstanding offensive player of the NCAA Tournament.

Following the season, St. Clair, Sejdic, Chase Gasper and Andrew Samuels were all selected in the Major League Soccer SuperDraft. Cirovski has coached 47 players picked in the SuperDraft. Pines was signed by DC United as a homegrown signing becoming the seventh Terp to sign an MLS Homegrown deal. 

The 2017 season saw Cirovski put his name into the college coaching record books once again, becoming just the ninth coach in Division I history to win 400 career matches. The Terps opened up the season with 13 straight games unbeaten (10-0-3) and completed a school record 30-game regular season unbeaten streak that dated back to 2015. Maryland boasted three All-Big Ten selections, including Big Ten Midfielder of the Year Eryk Williamson. Jake Rozhansky was a first-team selection while Donovan Pines was named to the second team. Williamson signed with the Portland Timbers as an MLS Homegrown player, while Rozhanksy signed overseas in Israel. Gordon Wild was selected in the MLS SuperDraft by Atlanta United.

The 2016 season was one for the record books for the Terps, as the squad posted a program-record 15-game winning streak and also carried a program-record 25-game unbeaten streak through the final game of the year. Maryland – which boasted its first undefeated regular season at 16-0-2 – also captured its fifth consecutive tournament crown when it defeated Wisconsin, 2-1, in the title game in Westfield, Ind. The Terps also captured the regular season title and snagged the top overall seed in the NCAA Tournament. Maryland nearly swept all the Big Ten special honors, as Gordon Wild was named Offensive Player of the Year, Alex Crognale snagged top defensive honors, and Cody Niedermeier was tabbed Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Year while Cirovski earned his first Big Ten Coach of the Year honor since Maryland became a member of the conference in 2014. Maryland also posted two NSCAA First Team All-Americans in Wild and Crognale – the first time two Terrapins earned that honor since 2010. Crognale signed a Homegrown contract with Columbus Crew while fellow senior defender Chris Odoi-Atsem was drafted in the first round by D.C. United.

Cirovski was instrumental in helping the Terps make a stellar transition to the Big Ten in 2014, leading Maryland to regular season and tournament championships in its inaugural season in the league and its fourth straight conference tournament title a year later. In 2015, Maryland advanced all the way to the quarterfinals, defeating previous national champions Virginia and Notre Dame along the way. Two more players were drafted as midfielder Tsubasa Endoh (first round) and Ivan Magalhaes (second round) each heard their names called at the 2016 MLS SuperDraft.

Maryland returned to the College Cup for the second straight season in 2013 after capturing ACC regular season and tournament championships for the second consecutive season. The Terps fell to Notre Dame in the national championship game and Patrick Mullins became the first player at Maryland to win two MAC Hermann Trophies.

Maryland put together one of its finest campaigns in 2012, boasting the top winning percentage and scoring offense in the country. The Terps captured the ACC regular season and tournament titles and advanced to the College Cup before bowing out in penalty kicks in the national semifinals. Patrick Mullins was named the MAC Hermann Trophy Winner and all three seniors – Taylor Kemp, John Stertzer, and London Woodberry – all landed in the MLS through either the MLS SuperDraft or homegrown contracts.

The Terps boasted another stellar campaign under the tutelage of Cirovski in 2011. Maryland jumped out to its best start since 1968 with an 11-0-1 record to begin the 2011 season. In that epic span, Cirovski netted career win No. 300 against Radford on Sept. 4. The Terps capped the year 14-4-3 overall and fell to a tough Louisville squad in the Sweet Sixteen. Maryland made its nation-best 10th straight appearance in the third round. Casey Townsend and John Stertzer garnered NSCAA All-American honors and Townsend was subsequently drafted fifth overall by Chivas USA in the MLS SuperDraft. Fellow senior Alex Lee was picked up by FC Dallas in the supplemental draft.

Three Terps were drafted and another two signed MLS Homegrown contracts after a successful 2010 campaign in which the Terps went 19-3-1 and racked up its second ACC title in three seasons. Maryland tied a school-record with 15 shutouts while boasting the top goals for and goals against average nationally. Sporting a youth-laden squad in 2009, Maryland advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the ninth straight year. An unseeded Maryland squad cruised past both Penn State and Harvard on the road to reach the Elite Eight where it eventually fell to national champion Virginia.

In 2008, the Terps established the `Gold Standard’, capturing the program’s third national title and winning more games (23) than any other squad in program history. The team also set program-bests in shutouts (15) and consecutive wins (16) as well as registering a Ludwig Field-record crowd of 6,500 in Maryland’s bout with then-No. 1 Wake Forest. The 2008 season marked the first time in the Cirovski-era that the Terps won both the NCAA Tournament and the ACC Tournament. To top it off, Cirovski eclipsed long-time head coach Doyle Royal to become Maryland men’s soccer winningest coach in a win against Duke on Sept. 19.

For the second straight season, Cirovski’s Terps had their fair share of critics in the preseason as Maryland lost two of the top players in the nation in 2007. Maurice Edu, a junior midfielder, was the No. 1 overall pick in the MLS SuperDraft on January 12. He was the second Maryland player to ever be taken with the first pick. Sophomore keeper Chris Seitz also decided to turn to the professional ranks and was chosen No. 4 overall in the SuperDraft. It marked just the fourth time in MLS SuperDraft history that two student-athletes from the same school were selected in the top five.

Even with the loss of arguably the best midfielder and goalkeeper in the country, the Terps finished 10-6-5 and earned a seed in the NCAA Tournament for the sixth straight season. Maryland is the only team in the nation that can claim that feat. The Terps advanced to the third round of the championship and was the only squad to do so every year for the past six seasons.

Despite losing six student-athletes from the national championship team in 2005, Cirovski led the Terps back to the NCAA Tournament in 2006, marking the sixth-straight season that Maryland advanced to the postseason. The Terps advanced to the Sweet Sixteen and finished the season with a 16-5-1 record.

The 2005 championship run did not mark the arrival of the Maryland program, but helped validate its place alongside the nation’s elite. In addition to a fourth-straight College Cup appearance, the Terps won the ACC regular season title and posted a 19-4-2 mark. In addition, Cirovski helped mentor Maryland’s first Hermann Trophy winner in Jason Garey, who left Maryland as the school’s all-time leader in goals (60) and points (140) and was the third pick in the MLS SuperDraft. Cirovski was named the ACC Coach of the Year for the second time in his career, and was the NSCAA National Coach of the Year for the first time in his career as the Terps brought home their first national title since 1968.

In addition to his leadership on the sidelines, Cirovski is also a leader as the chairman of the men’s soccer NSCAA Division I committee. As chairman, Cirovski was the architect in creating the position of NSCAA Program Director, a major triumph for the sport. This position will be the singular voice of college soccer in dealing with NCAA legislative issues, overseeing College Cups and elevating the significance and status of the sport. He was also vital in brokering the television partnership between Fox Soccer Channel and the NSCAA, guaranteeing a weekly spot for college soccer on television.

“Sasho has not only a vision and a passion to improve and promote college soccer but he has the knowledge and the dedication to pursue new ideas,” then Creighton head coach Elmar Bolowich said. “His enthusiasm for our sport is infectious and it will unite Division I college coaches to pursue our objectives and achieve them.”

Cirovski has brought success to every program he has been a part of. After helping his alma mater, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, to its first NCAA Tournament appearance in a decade as an assistant coach under Bob Gansler, he assumed the top spot at Hartford in 1991. In his two seasons with the Hawks, he took the team to back-to-back 13-6-3 records and consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances for the first time in school history. He then came to Maryland in 1993 to help resurrect a once-proud program that had been to only one NCAA Tournament in the last 16 years.

Cirovski has since built Maryland into one of the top programs in the nation and has given the Terps some of the finest seasons in school history.