BRAVES SOCCER COACHING STAFF

Contact Coach Casper:

Telephone: 
800-755-5200 x5426

Email:
bob.casper@ottawa.edu

Casper begins his first season at Ottawa University as the head coach of the men's soccer program. He comes to OU after one season at Barton County Community College where he coached the women's team to fifth place finish in the Jayhawk Conference. Before coaching at BCCC he was a head assistant at Bemidji State University, a NCAA Division II progarm in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. The year before Casper's arrival at Bemidji State, the team had a 5-13-1 overall record. In his first season he helped lead BSU to a 10-10 record and a fourth place finish in the conference tournament. In his second season at BSU, the team finished 12-4-7 overall and a second place record of 9-1-4 in the NSIC. Casper has been a staff coach for the Kansas Olympic Development Program, in charge of numerous clinics at Bemidji State, has been a volunteer assistant coach at the high school level and was the Bemidji Youth Soccer Coaching Coordinator.

Casper earned a bachelor of science in social sciences with an emphasis in history from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville in 2003. He is now working towards his masters in sports studies from Bemidji State University. Casper was a four-year letter winner at UW-P and was involved in the Pioneer Student Athlete Advisory Committee (PSAAC), Intervarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) and Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA). He has a NSCAA Regional Diploma/NSCAA State Goalkeeping Diploma (Level I); a NSCAA Advance Regional Diploma and will soon have a USSF "D" License. 

Contact Coach Parker:

Telephone: 
800-755-5200 x5851

Email:
brett.parker@ottawa.edu

Coach Parker begins his first season as an assistant coach in the soccer program at Ottawa University. He comes to OU after spending one season as an assistant coach at Carroll College in Montana.

While at Carroll, Coach Parker helped lead the women's program to a final regular season NAIA ranking of No. 12 and the schools first ever berth into the national tournament with an overall record of 13-6-1. A former Brave, Coach Parker was a two year captain and helped lead the 2005 Braves to the KCAC Tournament Championship and to a NAIA region tournament. He was selected as 2005 KCAC Defender of the Year, First Team All-KCAC, First Team All-Region and received Honorable Mention All-American honors. It was OU's first All-American selection since 1971.

Before coming to OU as a player, Coach Parker was part of the 2001 NSCAA Junior College National Championship team at Santa Rosa Junior College in Santa Rosa, Calif.

Parker is a 2006 graduate of Ottawa University and received a bachelor of arts in biology. He will start his M.B.A. in the fall of 2007 at Ottawa. He will also have his NSCAA National Diploma in June.