Coaches

Gary Dunda

The 2023 season will be Gary Dunda’s 14th season as head coach for the Geneva College Golden Tornadoes. Since his first season in 2010, Dunda has led the Golden Tornadoes to an overall record of 143-72-37, and the program has competed in the postseason conference championship tournament every year except one since joining the Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) in 2011. His teams have been even more impressive in conference play, with the program compiling a 67-20-12 record since joining the PAC.


In 2011, Geneva won the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) East Region Championship title, and then continued to the NCCAA National Championship tournament where they finished second in the nation. From 2011 to 2015 Dunda and the Golden Tornadoes finished second in the PAC three times before winning the title and earning a bid into the NCAA National Championship tournament in 2016. Dunda was named PAC Coach of the Year as well as NSCAA Regional Coach of the Year in 2016, and his program finished the 2016 season ranked 5th in the Great Lakes Region by the NSCAA. In addition, Dunda and the Golden Tornadoes held a 14-game win streak, the longest in NCAA Division III that season, before losing 1-0 to 6th ranked Franklin & Marshall in the first round of the NCAA 2016 National Championship tournament. In 2017 and 2019, Geneva once again advanced to the PAC Championship match, which made four of five seasons the Golden Tornadoes had advanced to the PAC Championship match. In the spring 2021 season, Geneva finished atop the PAC regular season standings, and the United Soccer Coaches named his staff as the regional staff of the year in the Great Lakes Region.


A graduate of Messiah College, Dunda was a four-year starter from 1993-96 on teams that were nationally ranked. He began his collegiate coaching career at Messiah as an assistant coach before becoming the associate men's and women's coach at Ottawa University and the head women's coach at Missouri Valley College. Prior to becoming the coach at Geneva, Dunda was the head coach at Goucher College in Maryland for ten years where he led international soccer tours to Spain (2009), England and Scotland (2006). He holds the NSCAA National and Advanced National and was a head coach with the US Youth Olympic Development Program (ODP) for the highly competitive state of Maryland for four years. In addition, Dunda served four years on the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Soccer Rules Committee, and one year as the Committee’s Chair.


Dunda earned an undergraduate degree in sport and exercise science from Messiah in 1997 and master's degree in sports administration from Emporia State University in 2001. At Geneva College, he is an assistant professor in the Sport Management major. Dunda and his wife, Heather, reside in Sewickley along with their three children Madeline (21), Wil (19) and Luke (11).