Chad Halverson is entering his ninth season as assistant men’s soccer coach at Barton College in 2017-18.
Halverson has been part of a a Barton program that appeared in the 2014 NCAA Tournament and has produced numerous all-conference award winners.
The Bulldogs won 11 games in 2011 (the most since 1998), advanced to the finals of the Conference Carolinas Tournament in 2012 (also for the first time since 1998), and reached the league tourney semifinals in 2013 before falling to nationally-ranked Limestone. In 2014, The Bulldogs advanced to the NCAA Southeast Regional before falling to naitonally-ranked Wingate in the opening round of play.
A native of Rochester, Minn., Halverson served as interim head men’s soccer coach at East Carolina in 2005, and spent a total of five seasons on the Pirates’ staff. In addition to ECU, Halverson’s extensive coaching career includes roles at the University of Central Florida and North Carolina Wesleyan College, as well as high school and club teams.
Halverson earned his undergraduate degree in physical education from Indiana State University in 1998, and then served on the men’s soccer staff at ECU as a graduate assistant while earning his master’s degree in physical education, which he completed in 2001.
An all-conference high jumper and captain of the men’s track and field team while at Indiana State, Halverson returned to the track as assistant women’s coach and recruiting coordinator at UCF in Orlando,Fla., helping the Golden Knights to consecutive Atlantic Sun conference championships in 2002 and 2003.
Despite that success, Halverson was called back to ECU and the soccer pitch in the summer of2003, where he served as assistant men’s coach. When Pirates’ head coach Michael Benn accepted another position in the summer of 2005, Halverson was elevated to interim head coach, a position which he held until ECU decided to disband its men’s soccer program the following year.
Halverson then accepted a position as a physical education teacher in Wilson County, and served at the same time as a volunteer men’s assistant coach at NC Wesleyan before joining the Barton staff. He is beginning his ninth year as a National Board Certified teacher at New Hope Elementary in the fall of 2014.
He has also been active in the Wilson youth soccer scene, serving as a coach with the Wilson Youth Soccer Association (WYSA) for the past nine years. In 2013, he began his first year as WYSA’s technical director and assistant academy director.
Halverson resides in Wilson with wife, Lorrie, and two children, Noelle (13) and Nick (9).
