Mike Singleton Garners Old Dominion Athletic Conference Men’s Soccer Coach of the Year Award Ninth-year head coach named the league’s top coach for the fifth time.

By Brian Laubscher
December 6, 2022

Mike Singleton, head men’s soccer coach at Washington and Lee University, was tabbed the 2022 Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Coach of the Year in voting conducted by the league’s coaches.

Under Singleton’s direction, W&L finished with a 16-3-4 overall record and the Generals earned the top seed for the ODAC Tournament with a 7-1-2 regular-season conference record. The Blue & White went on to win its third ODAC championship in the last five seasons with a 2-1 victory over Roanoke in the title contest.

W&L was ranked third in the preseason Division III coaches poll and saw its season come to an end with a 3-1 loss to third-ranked Kenyon in the third round of the NCAA Tournament. The Generals, who finished as a national semifinalist in 2021, were making their seventh straight NCAA playoff appearance.

Singleton has led W&L to four ODAC championships and he was honored as the ODAC Coach of the Year for a fifth time. He has registered a 128-31-20 (.771) record across his nine seasons at W&L and is 173-75-25 (.680) overall during his coaching career.

Singleton has been a member of the W&L faculty since 2014. He earned a bachelor’s degree in English and psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Purdue University.

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