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Longwood University

Longwood University Athletics
 201 High Street - Tabb Building Farmville, VA 23909
Division 1 Virginia Northeast
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Todd Dyer

Program founder, Longwood alumnus and Big South Coach of the Year – Todd Dyer’s name has long been synonymous with Longwood women’s soccer, the program he established in 1993 and has been at the helm of ever since.


With a 275-201-50 career record, success has followed Lancer women’s soccer at every step under Dyer, who graduated from the university in 1993 and is the longest-tenured coach currently serving at Longwood. From the program’s infancy as a burgeoning Division II program beginning in 1993 to the Division I transition from 2004-07 and most recently in the Big South era, the Lancers have surged to the forefront of Longwood’s athletics programs and are annually among the most successful the university has to offer.


11110Now as Longwood women’s soccer enters its 30th season under Dyer in 2023, the program is not only among Longwood’s best, but also among the strongest in the Big South. With five top-four Big South finishes since 2012 and a trip to the 2017 Big South Championship game, Dyer’s Lancers have placed among the conference’s top three in five of their 11 years as a member of the league. The team has amassed a 57-34-19 record in conference play since that inaugural 2012 Big South season.


Since storming onto the Big South scene with back-to-back third-place finishes in their first two seasons as league members in 2012 and 2013, the Lancers long flirted with ascending to the top tier of the conference before finally breaking through with their first championship game appearance in 2017. They followed that with another third-place finish in 2018, posting a 6-2-2 Big South record built on the foundation of one of the conference's top-rated defenses. They have since qualified for the Big South Championship tournament every year but one, including the spring of 2021 when they finished fourth overall to advance to the league semifinals.


Dyer has produced multiple all-conference players each year, receiving a total of 42 all-conference awards over the past nine seasons. In 2017, Longwood nearly swept the conference’s major awards with Dyer winning Big South Coach of the Year, Sydney Wallace earning Defensive Player of the Year, Carrie Reaver Freshman of the Year and Teresa Fruchterman Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Longwood had a stretch of 10 straight years with at least three players earning all-conference honors that began in 2012. The team boasts Big South soccer's first two-time Defensive Player of the Year selection in 2018 graduate and defensive standout Sydney Wallace, who took home that honor in both 2017 and 2018.


13363But despite the most recent accolades, Longwood women’s soccer success is nothing new. From the program’s modest beginnings in 1993 when Dyer, a Longwood men’s soccer alum, laid the groundwork by fielding the university’s first team, Dyer has built his program on a formula grounded in fitness, fundamentals, local and regional recruiting, and outright grit. That formula has produced 19 winning seasons, including eight since Longwood received full Division I certification in 2007, 74 all-conference awards and two conference players of the year – 2017 & 2018 Big South Defensive Player of the Year Sydney Wallace and 2007 United Soccer Conference Defensive Player of the Year Anne Whitmore.


But the Lancers’ success on the field only tells half the story of Longwood women’s soccer. Dyer’s teams annually perform at the top of their game in the classroom as well, routinely finishing with some of the highest team-wide grade point averages among Longwood’s 14 varsity programs. The team has won three Cormier Awards for Team Academic Excellence over the past four years, an honor presented by the athletics department each year to the male and female teams who earn the highest GPAs during the previous fall and spring semesters.


Longwood women's soccer also lays claim to two Longwood University valedictorians and winners of the Sally Barksdale Hargrett Prize since 2015, with All-Big South defender Kelsey McDonald taking those honors at the 2015 commencement and three-time All-Big South defender Carrie Reaver earning the same awards in 2021. From Big South Postgraduate Fellowship winners Taylor Cave and Olivia Colella to 2017 Big South Women’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year Teresa Fruchterman, Dyer’s student-athletes have attracted major academic recognitions in magnetic fashion.


13286The accolades Longwood women’s soccer has received over the past quarter-century are the byproduct of Dyer’s passion for coaching and the game of soccer, specifically at his alma mater. He has immense ties to the university that extend to his family as well, as his wife, Cassie Mullenix ’92, was a standout women’s basketball and softball player at Longwood, and his daughter, Kylie ’15, was a four-year member of the soccer team under Dyer and is the assistant director of athletics engagement in the Longwood athletics department. His don, Devin, also played soccer at Virginia Wesleyan.


A former standout midfielder during his playing career at Longwood, Dyer was a two-time team captain and scored 15 goals during his four years with the program before receiving his bachelor’s in physical education. He earned All-Virginia Intercollegiate Soccer Association (VISA) honors as a senior, and was a student assistant coach with the Lancer softball team for three years as an undergraduate as well.


A native of Manassas, Va., Dyer is a 1988 graduate of Osbourn Park High School where he was an All-State performer for Coach Ken Krieger. He worked as a coach and counselor with Prince William Soccer Incorporated from 1991-94. Dyer was an assistant head coach at C.D. Hylton High School in Dumfries in 1994 as Hylton won a Virginia Group AAA State Championship. He was head coach of the U-14 Girls Virginia State Team in the Olympic Development Program (ODP) from 1996-99, winning the 1999 Region I Tournament. Dyer also works numerous soccer clinics and camps during the summer months, including the development of Longwood’s annual camp in 2003.

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Rich Stoneman

Rich Stoneman was elevated to associate head coach in December, 2015, following three seasons as an assistant coach with the Lancers. Stoneman joined the program in July, 2013, and will enter his 11th season with the program in 2023.


Stoneman has made a tremendous impact on all facets of Longwood women’s soccer, most notably recruiting and the success of Longwood’s goalkeepers. Since his arrival in Farmville, Longwood has compiled an overall record of 78-76-28 (.505) and a Big South ledger of 49-32-19 (.585). Eight of those seasons have produced winning records in conference play, while four have seen Longwood earn top-three finishes in the Big South standings.


Stoneman has also been instrumental in the development of Longwood’s goalkeepers, during his time in Farmville. In 2022, he helped Mary Kate Levush finish her best season as a Lancer. She was second in the Big South with 5.53 saves per game, and she was fourth in the league in shutouts with four. She set the school's single-game saves record with a whopping 17 saves that earned a road point at Elon for the Lancers. The 17 saves were four more than the previous record.


In 2021, he helped Jordan Horacek post her best individual season as a Lancer that helped pave the way for an eight-match unbeaten streak and a six-match winning streak in conference play. In addition, Horacek tied the then-program record with 13 saves in a match. That propelled Longwood to a third place finish and a 2-0 win over Gardner-Webb in the first round of the Big South Tournament. In addition, the team posted eight shutouts in 2021.


Prior to that, he helped mentor Madison Van Dyke, and Van Dyke added her name to the top five of the Longwood Division I record books across a variety of categories in three seasons as the primary goalkeeper. In the spring season of 2021 (after the fall was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic), the Lancers posted five shutouts in 10 matches with Van Dyke leading the way in goal. The Lancers claimed a spot in the Big South Tournament with a fourth-place finish in the regular season.


In 2019, Van Dyke set the program record for saves in a match (13), and she is among the all-time leaders in wins (16, 5th), saves (166, 5th), goalkeeper minutes (3,820, 3rd), save percentage (0.783, 4th), goals against average (1.07, 3rd) and shutouts (13, T4th). Van Dyke was a two-time All-Big South Honorable Mention as well as an all-state VaSID selection in 2021.


Early in his Lancer career, Stoneman coached Maria Kirby, who would go down as the top goalkeeper across a variety of categories in her Longwood career. Kirby, an All-Big South selection, graduated as Longwood's all-time Division I record-holder in every statistical category, including career shutouts (27), wins (30), saves (264), save percentage (.841) and goals against average (0.82).


Stoneman also mentored Kirby in her best seasons, which saw her set Longwood single-season records in 2017 in goals against average (0.55), saves (96), save percentage (.881), wins (13) and shutouts (11) en route to All-Big South honors.


Stoneman also stepped in as the interim head coach for Longwood’s women’s tennis team over the second half of the 2016 spring season and led the program to four wins, securing the team’s first back-to-back 10-win seasons in the Division I era. In addition, he helped them earn the program's biggest Division I upset with a takedown of in-state foe George Mason.


Prior to Longwood, Stoneman coached the 2013 Fredericksburg Impact of the W-League, Women’s Pro-Am Soccer, to a fourth-place finish in the Northeastern Conference. That team included former Lancer standout Lindsey Ottavio.


Stoneman also served as an assistant coach at Pfeiffer University during 2012, while also working as the college coordinator at the Charlotte (N.C.) Soccer Academy (CSA). He has previous Division I coaching experience at Big South Conference member Coastal Carolina University (2010-11, women’s assistant, volunteer men’s assistant), East Carolina University (2007-09, women’s assistant), Louisiana Tech University (2004-06, women’s assistant) and Baylor University (2001-02, volunteer women’s assistant).


At Pfeiffer, Stoneman helped the program to an 11-6-2 record and an appearance in the Conference Carolinas Championship, while coaching the league’s Freshman of the Year. In addition, he worked very closely with CSA North to establish weekly technical and conditioning trainings and a Goalkeeper’s Academy, helping teams on technical and tactical aspects of their strengths and weaknesses. He led the ECNL College Prep team to an ECNL national top four finish.


At Coastal Carolina, Stoneman helped the program to a 10-8-2 record in 2010, including a share of the Big South regular season title. He assisted in maintaining team continuity throughout a head coaching change through the 2010-11 seasons, with responsibilities that included running all training sessions, monitoring academic standings, planning team travel, monitoring team budget, developing and maintaining strong alumni relationships, maintaining and monitoring recruit data bases, and serving as an associate camp director for summer camp. He also assisted with the men’s team that made NCAA appearances in 2010 and 2011, while producing MLS Players.


At East Carolina, Stoneman had many of the same responsibilities as well as recording player performance utilizing video break down for each game, and implementing the creation of individual player statistics and performance breakdowns. The 2008 team was a program-best 15-4-4, including the regular season Conference USA title and a runner-up finish at the C-USA Tournament. He helped establish the Louisiana Tech women’s soccer program after getting his start in coaching at Baylor, where he was Director of Clinics and Camps for the program.


The Fayetteville, N.C., native earned a Bachelor of Science degree in health and recreation from East Central (Okla.) University in 2001, and he had a minor in religious studies. He helped lead his NTX Olympic Development Program side to a national championship in the same year. Stoneman was a standout at Oklahoma Christian University from 1995-98, earning National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) All-Region honors (1997-98). He also played with the Oklahoma City Slickers and Oklahoma City Heat (1996-99) of the USISL, now the United Soccer Leagues (USL). Stoneman was a reserve for both the Dallas Burn (1999) and Kansas City Wiz (2000) of Major League Soccer (MLS). He also holds a Golden Gloves record of 10-6 in boxing.


Stoneman, who has numerous experiences with various camps and clinics since 1999, holds a National A License from the United States Soccer Federation (USSF), a National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Advanced Youth License, a NSCAA Goalkeeping Level I and II License, an English F.A. Premier Badge Level I and has memberships with the NSCAA, USSF and the F.A. Coaching Association. In addition, he is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), certified through the NSCA. He has served on Olympic Development Program coaching staffs in both Texas and North Carolina.

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