SCHOOL PROFILE
Senior Daniel Alpert
Photo by Dave Arnold
State classification: MIAA Division 1
Head coach Don Brock
Photo by Dave Arnold
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Athletic director: Micah Hauben
2012 finish: 21-1-3 (No. 14 in NSCAA poll, MIAA Division 1 champs)
Head coach: Don BrockYears at school: 46
Career record: 662-179-117
Notable team achievements: Four MIAA titles (1968, 1977, 1995 and 2012)... The 1977-78 teams set a record of 23 straight games without allowing a goal.
Notable soccer alumni: Steven Hauschka, placekicker with the Baltimore Ravens, Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks; Doug Williamson, member of 1968 state championship team and a senior national staff member of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.
Notable non-soccer facts about school: U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame member and former NHL player, coach and U.S. Olympian Robbie Ftorek is a Needham graduate and a former Needham star soccer player, too. He also coached the Boston Bruins... The annual Needham-Wellesley football game, played on
Thanksgiving morning, is the oldest running public school rivalry in the nation,
dating back 125 years.
