Tom Durkin

Tom Durkin
Durkin alongside his assistant coach Ashley Phillips (2014)
Personnel
Surname	Thomas N. Durkin
place of birth	United States
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1982-1986	Union County College
1986-1991	Rutgers Scarlet Knights
1989-1991	Suburban Soccer Club
1994-1995	Richland College of Dallas
1995-1996	USA U-17 (assistant coach)
1996-1998	Tampa Bay Mutiny (Assistant Coach)
1998-2011	Bradenton Academics / IMG Academy
2013	Boston Breakers (Assistant Coach)
2014-2015	Boston Breakers

Thomas N. Durkin is an American football coach . From 2014 to 2015, he was in charge of the Boston Breakers franchise in the National Women's Soccer League .

Career

Durkin began his coaching career in 1982 in the football department of Union County College in Cranford , New Jersey . In 1986 he moved to the university team of Rutgers University , the Rutgers Scarlet Knights and worked parallel to this at club level as a coach of the Suburban Soccer Club in New Jersey. After a brief position as head coach of the men's and women's teams at the Richland College of Dallas, Durkin joined the USSF's coaching staff in 1995 and was assistant coach for the United States' male U-17 team .

His appointment as assistant coach for the MLS franchise Tampa Bay Mutiny in 1996 brought Durkin to professional football for the first time. However, he left this again in January 1998 and then worked until 2011 at the IMG Academy in Bradenton , Florida as head coach and sports director.

In August 2013, after the dismissal of the previous head coach Lisa Cole at the Boston Breakers , Durkin was installed together with the former record national player Kristine Lilly as assistant to interim coach Cat Whitehill and moved up to the 2014 season as head coach of the Breakers. After two years in Boston in which the team only finished in the back seats and could not qualify for the play-offs, Durkin resigned as head coach of the Breakers at the end of the 2015 season.

Private

Durkin is a graduate of Kean University , married and has three children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tom Durkin steps down as Breakers head coach ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , bostonbreakerssoccer.com (English). Retrieved September 19, 2015. 
2. ↑ Breakers appoint Tom Durkin as head coach ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , bostonbreakerssoccer.com (English). Retrieved May 5, 2014. 

Web links

Commons : Tom Durkin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Tom Durkin on the Boston Breakers website
• Tom Durkin in the soccerdonna.de database