Seth Roland
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Teaneck, New Jersey
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| Born | 1957 (age 67–68) Teaneck, New Jersey | ||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||
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| 1975–1978 | Penn Quakers | ||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |||||||||||||||
| 1987–1992 | Bridgeport Purple Knights | ||||||||||||||
| 1992–1997 | William & Mary Tribe (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 1997–2023 | Fairleigh Dickinson Knights | ||||||||||||||
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| 2× Northeast Conference Men's Soccer Coach of the Year (2000, 2022) | |||||||||||||||
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Seth Roland (born 1957) is the head coach of the Fairleigh Dickinson men's soccer team, a position he has held since 1997. As a player, he won a silver medal with Team USA at the 1981 Maccabiah Games in Israel. As a coach of Team USA, he won a bronze medal at the 1993 Maccabiah Games. His FDU team has won eight NEC championships and made it to the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight. As of 2022, he was the winningest coach in FDU men's soccer history, the winningest coach in Northeast Conference history, and the ninth active-winningest-coach in NCAA Division I. He was named 2000 Northeast Conference Men's Soccer Coach of the Year.
Roland is a native of Teaneck, New Jersey.[1] His parents were Doris Leah (née Rubin) Roland, a psychologist, and Leonard Roland, a chemical engineer.[2] In 2000 his wife Marjorie died from brain cancer.[3] He and his wife Julia have two daughters, Hannah and Laura, and a son, Daniel.[1]
Playing career
College
Roland attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he played soccer and was a starting midfielder for the Quakers for three years, and was named All-Ivy League.[4][1] At Penn he earned a Bachelor of Arts in history, and a Master of Science in education.[1]
Maccabiah Games
He represented the United States in four Maccabiah Games tournaments in Israel, winning a silver medal in the 1981 Maccabiah Games, as he was the leading scorer on the team—he also represented Team USA at the 1977 Maccabiah Games, 1985 Maccabiah Games, and 1989 Maccabiah Games.[5][6][7][8]