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Horst Richardson

Horst Richardson

With credentials that have reached legendary proportions, Horst Richardson celebrated his 50th season with the Colorado College men's soccer program in 2014. No other coach at CC, in any sport, ever has come close to matching his remarkable duration on the sideline.

Since joining CC in 1965 as an assistant under Bill Boddington and then taking the reigns a year later in 1966, Richardson has compiled a distinguished record of 552 victories, 300 defeats and 69 ties. He has taken the Tigers to the NCAA playoffs 19 times, and guided them to seven conference championships in the old Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Soccer League. Heading into the 2014 campaign, CC’s eighth as a member of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, Richardson ranks fourth nationwide among active Division III men’s soccer coaches with his 552 career victories.  

Now retired from his former position in the college's German department (1965-2006), Richardson has earned NCAA regional coach-of-the-year honors five times. In 1998, at the National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s annual convention, he was one of five recipients of an NSCAA Letter of Commendation. He also received the NSCAA’s prestigious Bill Jeffrey Award, for longtime achievement in college soccer, in 2001. In 2006 he was recognized by the Colorado Springs Sports Corporation as winner of the F. Don Miller Award for his commitment to athletics in the local community.

The Tigers have earned four NCAA tournament bids since 2000. In 2004, with All-American and NCAA Division III Player of the Year Patrick McGinnis leading the way, they finished 16-4-1 while recording their highest victory total since that ’92 campaign. CC was 144-68-16 (.667) during the 1990s, including an 18-2-2 (.864) mark and trip to the national semifinals in 1992.

Richardson earned his bachelor’s (1963) and master’s degrees ('66) from the University of California-Riverside, where he earned four letters in varsity soccer, then added a Ph.D. ('76) from the University of Connecticut. He formerly served on the District 11 school board in Colorado Springs and has a United States Soccer Federation "A" coaching license.
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