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Pat Laughlin was named the Friends of Brown Men's Soccer Head Coaching Chair in March of 2010 and became just the sixth coach in Brown's 84-year soccer history.
A 1992 graduate of the University of Maine, Laughlin brings 16 years of collegiate coaching experience to Brown, which includes one season as an assistant coach for the Bears during the 2009 season. Last year, the Bears earned a 5-2 mark in the Ivy League and went 11-3-5 on the year to earn its 24th NCAA appearance. Seven players received All-Ivy honors, while two received NSCAA All-Region accolades.
In just two seasons as the bench boss at Maine, Laughlin not only turned a program around that was riding a 26-game winless streak, but he also made positive improvements in multiple areas of the program. He increased Maine's win totals in both 2007 and 2008, and his team received an NSCAA Team Academic Award for the first time in program history. He had 30 players selected to the America East honor roll, two players selected to the America East's All-Rookie team, and two to the America East All-Academic team.
Prior to Maine, Laughlin spent the 2006 season as an assistant coach at the University of Rhode Island where he served as the recruiting coordinator and prepared and assisted with all training sessions. While there, the Rams won the Atlantic 10 Championship with an impressive 12-5-6 record and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Before joining the Rams, Laughlin was the head coach at Dean College for six years. He helped take the program to new heights, which included its first-ever trip to the NJCAA National Finals in 2002. The Bulldogs captured the New England Region Championship in 2002 and 2003, and were finalists in 2005. He coached four NJCAA All-Americans, four Academic All-Americans, and posted a 69-36-6 record while there and was named the New England Regional Coach of the Year in 2002. Prior to his arrival at Dean, Laughlin built a program at Champlain College and posted a 28-21-3 record in his three seasons.
A native of Dallas, Texas, Laughlin earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Maine and went on to earn his Master's of Education in Sports Management at Cleveland State University in 1996 while serving as an assistant coach.
Laughlin enjoyed a successful collegiate career playing for the Maine Black Bears, as his team ranked in the top ten in New England three out of his four years. A team captain during his senior season, Laughlin was named to the North Atlantic Conference All-Academic Team in addition to receiving the University of Maine scholar-Athlete honors three times.
He is the Head Coach for Region I Boys U-15 Olympic Development
Program, and for the past three years he has coached this team in
Spain, Argentina and Costa Rica on international tours. Laughlin
holds a "B" Coaching License from the United States Soccer
Federation and an Advanced Diploma from the National Soccer Coaches
Association of America.
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Gregg Miller enters his second season on the Brown soccer staff, having spent the previous 14 seasons as head men’s coach at Johnson & Wales University. During his time at JWU, he led the men’s team to five conference championship titles (1995, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007) and four appearances in the NCAA tournament (’02, ’03, ’05, ’07). He was named as conference coach of the year on three occasions and holds the league record for tournament championships.
Miller was appointed as Director of Coaching with Bruno United FC
in August 2007, overseeing thirteen premier teams and two academy
programs. He has also coached successful premier teams
(Northern Lightning, Bruno United) since 1998.
A 1994 graduate of Johnson & Wales, Miller was a co-founder and captain on the university’s original men’s soccer team. He also played on various youth select and county representative teams in his native England before arriving in the United States in 1991.
Miller holds an NSCAA Premier Diploma and a Level 1 Goalkeeping
Diploma. He resides in Riverside, Rhode Island.
