Nate Boyden

Biography

Nate Boyden joined Wisconsin as an assistant head coach ahead of the 2024 season. He arrived in Madison from the Chicago Fire Football Club, where he completed his second stint with the club. As the Fire's Youth Technical Director, Boyden developed curriculum for the Fire's youth programs, coached within the Fire academy, created programming for player identification and scouting, and served as interim Academy Technical Director for the fall season of 2022. During Boyden's first stint with the Fire, from 2016-2019, he served as an academy head coach,, where he coached and helped develop Fire academy Homegrown players such as Brian Gutierrez, Gabriel Slonina and Chris Brady. In the 2018 season, Boyden served as a part-time Assistant on the First Team staff of Head Coach, Veljko Paunovic. The Davis, California native went back home from 2019-2021, where he served as technical director and ECNL team coach of Davis Legacy Soccer Club. At Davis, he oversaw the technical direction of a club with 51 youth teams and approximately 40 coaches, and led their high school boys' team to a successful transition to the Elite Clubs National League (ECNL). Boyden also boasts collegiate coaching experience, having spent time as an assistant coach and associate head coach with current UW head coach Neil Jones at Loyola Chicago from 2013-16. He helped the program reach a No. 7 national ranking and a Missouri Valley Conference title in 2016 during his time with the Ramblers. The staff was named th