Andy Byrne completed his 24th year as Bomber men’s soccer coach in 2007. He owns a record of 258-114-36 and has advanced to postseason play 16 times. He is the first Bomber men’s soccer coach to reach 200 wins, achieving the milestone in 2002.
His teams made nine consecutive playoff appearances from 1985 through 1993, with five of those berths in the NCAA tournament. The veteran coach guided the Bombers to three straight NCAA quarterfinal appearances (1995 to 1997) and a semifinal berth in 1996. Ithaca’s winningest men’s soccer coach, he was named the Northeast Region Division III coach of the year in 1996 and 1997. Byrne has been named the Empire 8 Coach of the Year three times in the past four years.
A 1975 graduate of Plymouth State College, he played for Gerd Lutter, a member of the Ithaca College Athletic Hall of Fame. A team captain, Byrne earned earned four varsity letters. He later spent time as an assistant coach for Lutter with the Panthers before earning a master’s degree at Eastern Illinois University.
Prior to taking the head coaching position at Ithaca, Byrne was the head men’s soccer coach and a physical education instructor at Indiana State University-Evansville (now Southern Indiana). His teams won three consecutive Great Lakes Valley championships, posted a 34-18-2 overall mark and competed in the 1982 NCAA Division II playoffs. Byrne has also been head coach at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. His overall coaching record is 296-156-36, for a .643 career winning percentage.
