Jeff Rowland

Biography

Jeff Rowland is an Assistant Coach for Notre Dame Men's Soccer with seventeen seasons of collegiate coaching experience at Harvard, Creighton, Washington, and Notre Dame. He was a member of the United Soccer Coaches National Coaching Staff of the Year in 2023 and has guided five Elite Eight appearances with four in the last five years, including two College Cup appearances and one College Cup Final appearance with Notre Dame. Rowland has helped teams win conference championships at every school he has coached, including two ACC titles with Notre Dame, two Pac-12 titles at Washington, one MVC title at Creighton, and one Ivy League title at Harvard. As a player, he attended the University of New Mexico, was named a 2005 Hermann Trophy Finalist, led his team to the 2005 College Cup Final, earned two-time First Team All-American and Academic All-American honors, was drafted by Real Salt Lake, and played with RSL, FC Dallas, and the Wilmington Hammerheads. He coached twenty-nine MLS players during ten years at Washington, including Cristian Roldan of Seattle Sounders and U.S. National Team, and four MLS players in three seasons at Notre Dame.