2nd season (2022)
Previous Coaching Experience
Gettler brings 39 years of collegiate head coaching experience and 308 NCAA men's soccer victories to UNE. Most recently, he spent six seasons (2010-15) as coach and Deputy Director of Athletics at Husson University [NCAA III], leading the Eagles to a pair of conference titles and national tournament appearances. Before the 2009 campaign, when he was an assistant at Bradley University [NCAA I], Gettler's stops included 14 years (1995-2008) at the University of Richmond [NCAA I] and four (1991-94) with Lafayette College [NCAA I], which featured a combined three teams making the national field. Prior to those, he spent nine years (1982-90) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst [NCAA I], four (1978-81) leading Bates College [NCAA III], and two (1976-77) at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell [NCAA II]. Gettler has been thoroughly involved with the United Soccer Coaches association and its education since entering the field. Additionally, from 1995-98, he was a central piece in the success of the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship weekend hosted by the University of Richmond, which still holds the event record for attendance from 1995.
Since 2016, Gettler has been the Director of Coaching with the Richmond Strikers Soccer Club.
Competitive Experience / Education
Gettler played four seasons (1969-72) of soccer at Lycoming College [NCAA III], and earned a bachelor's degree in religion in 1973. He later received a master's degree in movement, health, and leisure from Boston University in 1981.
Personal
Gettler is the father of UNE head women's soccer coach,
Carly Gettler.
