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Head Coach George Purgavie
Read the story about Coach Purgavie from the Sun Journal. George Purgavie has been the men's soccer coach at Bates since 1983, making him the most tenured active coach at the College. Competing in perhaps the most competitive conference in Division III men's soccer, the New England Small College Athletic Conference, Purgavie has assembled a career record of 154-162-40, including appearances in three of the past four NESCAC Championship quarterfinals, as well as four appearances in the ECAC Championships during the 1990s. Before coming to Bates, he served as an assistant coach at Boston College, the University of South Carolina and Middlebury College. Purgavie holds an "A" coaching license from the U.S. Soccer Federation and serves on the National Academy Staff of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA). He spent the spring of 1999 on sabbatical studying youth soccer development for the NSCAA, working closely with the Royal Dutch Soccer Federation. He has also developed an academic course in Human Rights and Ethics in Sport. An All-Mid-Atlantic goalkeeper at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, Purgavie was selected for the 1973 East-West Senior Bowl. Earlier this decade, he was presented with West Chester's Gene Davis Alumni Soccer Award, given annually "in recognition of years of service, dedication and love of the game and the young people who play it." After graduating from WCU, Purgavie went on to play for the Connecticut Wildcats of the American Soccer League. "Our goal is to graduate student-athletes who have experienced success in the NESCAC and are academically and morally prepared to become engaged citizens," says Purgavie. "The student-athletes in our program strive for excellence in all their goals in life." |
