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Coaching StaffTim CromptonHead CoachCoach Crompton enters his fifth season as head coach ofthe Wildcats after taking over for co-head coaches LynnKofoed and Tom VudhiVadhana in the summer of 2004.Crompton led the Wildcats to the Big Sky Conferencechampionship each of his first two years, and he washonored with the Big Sky Conference Coach of the Yearaward both seasons.Last season, the Wildcats finished second in the Big Skywith a 3-2-2 conference record (7-8-3 overall). WSUextended its streak of Big Sky postseason appearancesto five-straight years and made it three-straight years offinishing in the top two in the league standings. The ‘Cats fell to Northern Colorado inthe conference semifinals.In 2005, the Wildcats won their second-straight conference title, posting the third-bestrecord in school history. The ‘Cats also advanced to the second round of the NCAACollege Cup with a shootout win over Brigham Young, and narrowly missed advancingto the Sweet 16, falling to Arizona 1-0 in the second round. After dueling to a 1-1 drawover 120 minutes of play, the Wildcats defeated the Cougars with a 4-3 edge in penaltykicks for the program’s first-ever College Cup win.In Crompton’s inaugural season as head coach, he guided WSU to the program’ssecond 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 seasonin fourth place at 2-2-2, the ‘Cats posted two shutouts to knock off Portland State andMontana and claim the Big Sky tournament title. The postseason run ended with a 3-0loss in the NCAA First Round. In that match, WSU fell to fifth-ranked Portland on thePilots’ home turf.Under Crompton’s charge, the Wildcats have posted a 38-30-10 overall record andhave won over 64 percent of their Big Sky Conference games (18-9-5, .641), countingpostseason play.Crompton spent one season as an assistant coach with the Weber State women’s soccerprogram prior to becoming head coach.Over the three years prior to joining the Weber State staff, he was the head coachof the WSU men’s club soccer program and guided them to the 2002 NationalClub Championship. In both 2000 and 2001, his teams also finished in the top-10nationally.Crompton is also a former WSU club soccer player. He was a four-year captain, leadingthe 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 playone year with the Las Vegas Quicksilver Professional Team.6 -- Wildcat Soccer WeberStateSports.com

Tim Crompton • Head CoachTim’s previous coaching experience also includes five years as head coach at FremontHigh School, seven years as an assistant at Ogden High School, and two years as anassistant with the WSU men’s club soccer team. He has also served as the presidentof the Advantage Soccer Club and as WSU’s Head Soccer Instructor of the NationalYouth Sports Program.Crompton graduated from Weber State in 1996 with a degree in Physical Educationand Coaching and currently holds a United States Soccer Federation National “A”License.Tim and his wife Dani have a 14-year-old daughter, Chansi, and a ten-year-old son,Rhees.Coach Crompton’s Career FileYear Overall Record Big Sky Record / Finish Postseason Results2004 8-10-2 (.450) 2-2-2 (.500) / 4th Big Sky Champions/NCAA First Round2005 14-5-2 (.714) 5-1-0 (.833) / 1st Big Sky Champions/NCAA Second Round2006 9-7-3 (.553) 4-2-1 (.643) / T-2nd Big Sky Semi-Finals2007 7-8-3 (.472) 3-2-2 (.571)/ 2nd Big Sky Semi-FinalsTotals 38-30-10 (.551) 14-7-5 (.635)WeberStateSports.comWildcat Soccer -- 7

Meagan enters her fourth season as an assistant with theWildcat soccer program.Over her three seasons, Wildcat goalkeepers have posteda combined 1.17 Goals Against Average and she has hadtwo goalkeepers (Kandice Golar and Rebecca Ritchie) thathave earned All-Conference honors.Meagan was a standout player on the WSU soccer teamfrom 1998 to 2001. She was a four-year starter at goalkeeperand left the program as the top keeper in schoolhistory. Over her career, she posted a 1.51 Goals AgainstAverage, 411 saves, and 19.5 shutouts. She is the all-time career leader in saves andshutouts. 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 individualseason saves list (130 in 2000, 112 in 1998, and 105 in 1999). Meagan also owns theWSU record for Consecutive Scoreless Minutes at 490 minutes, 34 seconds. The streakspanned seven games in 1999. She also posted a streak of 421:38 scoreless minutesover 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 Championshipin 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 selectionin 1998, 1999 and 2001, while makingthe Second Team in 2000. She was namedthe 1998 Big Sky Newcomer of the Yearand was a Soccer Buzz Freshman All-America Third Team selection.Meagan graduated from WSU in 2001 witha degree in English and Spanish Teaching.She spent the 2004 season as the headcoach of the Mountain Crest High Schoolgirl’s soccer team after being an assistantcoach with the program for two years.The Mustangs were Region championsall three years.Coaching StaffMeagan ThunellAssistant Coach/Goalkeeper Coach8 -- Wildcat Soccer WeberStateSports.com

Tom enters his fifth season as an assistant coach on theWildcat staff after spending eight years as co-head coachof the team with Lynn Kofoed. Tom has been with theprogram since its inception in 1996.As co-head coaches, the duo of Kofoed and VudhiVadhanacompiled a 72-68-10 record, three Big Sky regularseason championships and one Big Sky postseasonchampionship.The pair started at WSU for the school’s inaugural seasonof soccer in 1996 with a group composed mostly of former WSU club soccer playersand produced an impressive 7-7-2 first-year record. Over the next few years, the tworaised the bar for Weber State soccer, creating a program that has been one of the mostdominant 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 ninegameimprovement and a second place finish at the first-ever Big Sky Championship.One year later they were the conference regular season champions and defeated thedefending conference champion Montana Grizzlies in a 2-1 double overtime thriller forthe 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 championshipgame by Idaho State. In 2003,the Wildcats gave up only a single goal inconference play as they went 4-1-1 andearned another Big Sky regular seasontitle. The team fell in the Big Sky semifinals1-0 to Montana.Kofoed and VudhiVadhana were awardedtheir third Big Sky Conference Coach ofthe Year award in 2003. The duo also wonthe honor in back-to-back years in 1997and 1998.Coaching StaffTom VudhiVadhanaAssistant CoachBefore being named co-head coach atWeber State, Coach VudhiVadhana wasWSU’s women’s soccer club head coachfrom 1993 to 1996 and compiled a threeyearrecord of 63-11-1. In 1993, his clubplaced third in regionals and went on thenext year to win the National Club SoccerWeberStateSports.comWildcat Soccer -- 9

Coaching StaffAssociation 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, winningthe Region 1 Championship six times, with four of those seasons going undefeated inregion play. The Lakers were State runners-up twice in that period. He has been associatedwith AYSO soccer for 30 plus years as a coach and referee.A native of Bangkok, Thailand, VudhiVadhana’s Christian College High School team wonthe Thailand national championship in 1963. VudhiVadhana received an A.S. degreefrom 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 soccerprogram during the 1999 and 2000 seasons.Eric HohnHead Strength and Conditioning CoachEric Hohn joined the staff in April of 1998 as the Strengthand Conditioning Coach for the Weber State UniversityAthletic Department. He supervises the strength and conditioningroutines of all WSU student-athletes. During histenure at WSU, he has coached NFL draftees Cam Quayle,Anthony Parker, Scott Shields, Pat & Paul McQuistanand David Hale as well as NBA player Lance Allred.A native of Downey, California, Hohn graduated from WarrenHigh in 1977 and attended the University of Oregonwhere he earned a B.S. degree in Physical Education. He later earned a Master’sdegree 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 atUW, 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’spupils at Cal included six NFL first-round draft choices: Sean Dawkins, Todd Steussi,Regan Upshaw, Tony Gonzalez, and Hardy Nickerson. He also oversaw the strengthand 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 SouthAmerica, and to the base camp of Mt. Everest.10 -- Wildcat Soccer WeberStateSports.com