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Tim Crompton
Head Coach
Coach Crompton enters his sixth season as head coach
of the Wildcats after taking over for co-head coaches Lynn
Kofoed and Tom VudhiVadhana in the summer of 2004.
Crompton led the Wildcats to the Big Sky Conference
championship each of his first two years, and he was
honored with the Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year
award both seasons.
Last season, the Wildcats claimed the Big Sky regular
season championship with a 5-2 conference record
(9-10-2 overall). WSU extended its streak of Big Sky
postseason appearances to six-straight years and made
it four-straight years of finishing in the top two in the league standings. The ‘Cats fell to
Northern Arizona in the conference title game.
In Crompton’s inaugural season as head coach, he guided WSU to the program’s
second Big Sky Championship and to its first-ever berth in the NCAA College Cup. The
‘Cats finished the season at 8-10-2 overall. After finishing the Big Sky regular season
in fourth place at 2-2-2, the ‘Cats posted two shutouts to knock off Portland State and
Montana and claim the Big Sky tournament title. The postseason run ended with a 3-0
loss in the NCAA First Round. In that match, WSU fell to fifth-ranked Portland on the
Pilots’ home turf.
In 2005, the Wildcats won their second-straight conference title, posting the third-best
record in school history. The ‘Cats also advanced to the second round of the NCAA
College Cup with a shootout win over Brigham Young, and narrowly missed advancing
to the Sweet 16, falling to Arizona 1-0 in the second round. After dueling to a 1-1 draw
over 120 minutes of play, the Wildcats defeated the Cougars with a 4-3 edge in penalty
kicks for the program’s first-ever College Cup win.
Under Crompton’s charge, the Wildcats have posted a 38-30-10 overall record and
have won over 64 percent of their Big Sky Conference games (18-9-5, .641), counting
postseason play.
Crompton spent one season as an assistant coach with the Weber State women’s soccer
program prior to becoming head coach.
Over the three years prior to joining the Weber State staff, he was the head coach
of the WSU men’s club soccer program and guided them to the 2002 National
Club Championship. In both 2000 and 2001, his teams also finished in the top-10
nationally.
Crompton is also a former WSU club soccer player. He was a four-year captain, leading
the Wildcats to three National Club Championships, in 1992, 1994, and 1995. In 1993,
his team finished as runners-up. Following his college career, Crompton went on to play
one year with the Las Vegas Quicksilver Professional Team.
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Coach Crompton’s Career File
Tim Crompton • Head Coach
Tim’s previous coaching experience also includes five years as head coach at Fremont
High School, seven years as an assistant at Ogden High School, and two years as an
assistant with the WSU men’s club soccer team. He has also served as the president
of the Advantage Soccer Club and as WSU’s Head Soccer Instructor of the National
Youth Sports Program.
Crompton graduated from Weber State in 1996 with a degree in Physical Education
and Coaching and currently holds a United States Soccer Federation National “A”
License.
Tim and his wife Dani have a 15-year-old daughter, Chansi, and an 11-year-old son,
Rhees.
Year Overall Record Big Sky Record / Finish Postseason Results
2004 8-10-2 (.450) 2-2-2 (.500) / 4th Big Sky Champions/
NCAA First Round
2005 14-5-2 (.714) 5-1-0 (.833) / 1st Big Sky Champions/
NCAA Second Round
2006 9-7-3 (.553) 4-2-1 (.643) / T-2nd Big Sky Semi-Finals
2007 7-8-3 (.472) 3-2-2 (.571) / 2nd Big Sky Semi-Finals
2008 9-10-2 (.476) 5-2-0 (.714) / 1st Big Sky Runner-Ups
Totals 38-30-10 (.551) 14-7-5 (.635)
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Meagan Thunell
Assistant Coach/Goalkeeper Coach
Meagan enters her fifth season as an assistant with the
Wildcat soccer program.
Over her four seasons, Wildcat goalkeepers have posted
a combined 1.09 Goals Against Average and she has had
two goalkeepers (Kandice Golar and Rebecca Ritchie)
that have earned All-Conference honors. Ritchie earned
Big Sky Defensive MVP honors in 2008 under Thunell’s
coaching.
Meagan was a standout player on the WSU soccer team
from 1998 to 2001. She was a four-year starter at goalkeeper
and left the program as the top keeper in school history. Over her career, she
posted a 1.51 Goals Against Average, 411 saves, and 19.5 shutouts. She is the all-time
career leader in saves and shutouts. She also owns the WSU individual season records
for least goals allowed (7), GAA (0.41) and shutouts (9.5) and she owns the top three
spots on the individual season saves list (130 in 2000, 112 in 1998, and 105 in 1999).
Meagan also owns the WSU record for Consecutive Scoreless Minutes at 490 minutes,
34 seconds. The streak spanned seven games in 1999. She also posted a streak of
421:38 scoreless minutes over five games in 1998, which is third on the WSU list.
Thunell helped lead the Wildcats to the program’s first-ever Big Sky Conference Championship
in 1998. Her GAA of 0.413 ranked fourth in the nation that season.
Meagan is the only four-year Wildcat to
be named to an All-Big Sky team all four
years. She was an All-Big Sky First Team
selection in 1998, 1999 and 2001, while
making the Second Team in 2000. She
was named the 1998 Big Sky Newcomer
of the Year and was a Soccer Buzz Freshman
All-America Third Team selection.
Meagan graduated from WSU in 2001 with
a degree in English and Spanish Teaching.
She spent the 2004 season as the head
coach of the Mountain Crest High School
girl’s soccer team after being an assistant
coach with the program for two years.
The Mustangs were Region champions
all three years.
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Tom enters his sixth season as an assistant coach on
the Wildcat staff after spending eight years as co-head
coach of the team with Lynn Kofoed. Tom has been with
the program since its inception in 1996.
As co-head coaches, the duo of Kofoed and VudhiVadhana
compiled a 72-68-10 record, three Big Sky regular
season championships and one Big Sky postseason
championship.
The pair started at WSU for the school’s inaugural season
of soccer in 1996 with a group composed mostly of former WSU club soccer players
and produced an impressive 7-7-2 first-year record. Over the next few years, the two
raised the bar for Weber State soccer, creating a program that has been one of the most
dominant programs in the Big Sky Conference nearly every year. During the pair’s tenure,
WSU recorded a Big Sky record of 29-15-1 (.659 winning percentage).
In the program’s sophomore season, Tom and Lynn coached the 1997 team to a ninegame
improvement and a second place finish at the first-ever Big Sky Championship.
One year later they were the conference regular season champions and defeated the
defending conference champion Montana Grizzlies in a 2-1 double overtime thriller for
the school’s first Big Sky Championship.
In 2001, the Wildcats added another
regular season title to the coaches’ list of
accomplishments, going 6-0-0 in Big Sky
play, but were upset in the conference
championship game by Idaho State. In
2003, the Wildcats gave up only a single
goal in conference play as they went 4-1-
1 and earned another Big Sky regular
season title. The team fell in the Big Sky
semi-finals 1-0 to Montana.
Kofoed and VudhiVadhana were awarded
their third Big Sky Conference Coach of
the Year award in 2003. The duo also won
the honor in back-to-back years in 1997
and 1998.
Tom VudhiVadhana
Assistant Coach
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Before being named co-head coach at
Weber State, Coach VudhiVadhana was
WSU’s women’s soccer club head coach
from 1993 to 1996 and compiled a threeyear
record of 63-11-1. In 1993, his club
placed third in regionals and went on the
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next year to win the National Club Soccer Association title. In 1995, his club won the
regional title and placed third at nationals.
VudhiVadhana also coached the men’s soccer club team at Weber State from 1986-1991.
He was the boys soccer coach at Bonneville High School in Ogden for 10 years, winning
the Region 1 Championship six times, with four of those seasons going undefeated in
region play. The Lakers were State runners-up twice in that period. He has been associated
with AYSO soccer for 30 plus years as a coach and referee.
A native of Bangkok, Thailand, VudhiVadhana’s Christian College High School team won
the Thailand national championship in 1963. VudhiVadhana received an A.S. degree
from Grossman College in San Diego in 1970 and attended Weber State from 1972-74.
He is the father of four girls. One of his daughters, Deborah, played for the Wildcat soccer
program during the 1999 and 2000 seasons.
Eric Hohn
Head Strength and Conditioning Coach
Eric Hohn joined the staff in April of 1998 as the Strength
and Conditioning Coach for the Weber State University
Athletic Department. He supervises the strength and conditioning
routines of all WSU student-athletes. During his
tenure at WSU, he has coached NFL draftees Cam Quayle,
Anthony Parker, Scott Shields, Pat & Paul McQuistan
and David Hale as well as NBA player Lance Allred.
A native of Downey, California, Hohn graduated from Warren
High in 1977 and attended the University of Oregon
where he earned a B.S. degree in Physical Education. He later earned a Master’s
degree from the University of South Carolina in Physical Education as well.
He spent four seasons as the Assistant Strength Coach at the University of Washington,
working with NFL standouts such as Mark Brunell and Lincoln Kennedy. While at
UW, the Huskies appeared in three straight bowl games.
He left Washington to become the Head Strength Coach at the University of California-
Berkeley for six seasons and went to three bowl games with the Bears. Some of Hohn’s
pupils at Cal included six NFL first-round draft choices: Sean Dawkins, Todd Steussi,
Regan Upshaw, Tony Gonzalez, and Hardy Nickerson. He also oversaw the strength
and conditioning programs of eventual NBA stars, Jason Kidd, Shareef Abdur-Rahim,
Ed Gray, and Lamond Murray.
Hohn is an avid hiker who has scaled Mt. Kilamanjaro in Africa, the Andes of South
America, and to the base camp of Mt. Everest.
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