Head men’s soccer coach Bob Warming has announced the promotion of Chad Duernberger to Associate Head Coach.
Duernberger enters his sixth season at Penn State and his first season as associate head coach for the Nittany Lions. He maintains a role in team training and is also involved in a variety of administrative duties. Duernberger helped the Nittany Lions capture back-to-back Big Ten regular season trophies in 2012 and 2013 and has been on the sidelines during two consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances.
In 2015, Duernberger helped the Nittany Lions to their 25th appearance in the Big Ten Tournament, while also mentoring Nittany Lions Connor and Austin Maloney, to a pair of Big Ten postseason honors.
In 2014 the Nittany Lions went 13-6-1 and 5-3-0 in the conference as they recorded their 800th win in program history over Penn (Sept. 24), with a 6-2 win at Jeffrey Field. The team got out to a program-best 10-0-1 start and won seven-straight matches for the first time since 2005. After falling to Michigan State in the B1G Tournament quarterfinals, Penn State received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament and hosted Hartwick at Jeffrey Field. The Lions defeated the Hawks 2-1 to move onto the second round for the third consecutive season before succumbing to No. 9 seed Syracuse 2-1, on the road.
Penn State went 5-1-0 in the Big Ten in 2013 before advancing to the NCAA Sweet 16 following an upset victory over No. 10 UC Santa Barbara.
Penn State captured a share of the Big Ten regular season championship in just his second season on the coaching staff, as the Nittany Lions compiled a 3-1-2 conference record in 2012. PSU held its opponents to just over one goal-per-game during the season as it went unbeaten in its final four regular season conference contests.
Duernberger arrived at Penn State after serving as the head men’s soccer coach at the University of Charleston, a Division II institution located in the capital city of West Virginia, for the past three seasons. One of the youngest head coaches in the nation when he was hired in 2008, the 24-year-old Duernberger engineered an impressive and rapid turnaround after inheriting a Charleston program that went 0-17-0 the year prior. The Golden Eagles improved to 4-11-2 in his first season before finishing 19-4-0 in 2009, the second best season in program history.
