SSAC News
Mon, Aug 28, 2006 - [Men's Soccer]
Southern Polytechnic State University announces the appointment of Kamiar Momeni as the University’s head coach for its new intercollegiate soccer team effective immediately.
While metro Atlanta businessmen work to bring a major league soccer team to metro Atlanta, competing with several other cities vying for three-expansion teams before 2010, SPSU is kicking off the only intercollegiate men’s soccer program among the colleges and universities in Cobb County. Recruitment of student athletes begins immediately this fall along with the logistical changes needed to prepare SPSU’s fields and to acquire equipment. The team will play in the Southern States Athletic Conference (SSAC), which is part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).
Heading the new effort will be Kamiar Momeni, who comes to Southern Polytechnic from the position of first assistant head coach for men’s soccer at Coastal Carolina University, in Conway, SC, which is a top 25 Division I Program. In that role, he was named in College Soccer News as one of the “Nation’s Top 20 Assistant Coaches of 2004” and participated in four NCAA Tournament appearances.
According to Momeni, “It is good to be in a place where I set the tone and the standards for a brand new program. This is a unique opportunity that does not come along for many coaches. Rather than follow in another’s footsteps, I will make my own,
bringing to the table my experience working with students and with successful head coaches for the past nine years in my profession.”
Momeni is happy to be in a state that he calls “soccer friendly,” and to be at a university that values the academic standards of its athletes. “It will be my job to recruit players who are academically right for the university as first priority and for the program as second priority.”
SPSU Athletic Director Karl Staber calls Momeni’s selection a good choice for an exciting new program. “He is in tune with the challenges and requirements of bringing athletics and academics together, and he has experience in one of the premier Division I schools in the country.”
Momeni’s style is said to be flexible, and he says the art of coaching is “to work with what you have and to adapt to your environment.”
While metro Atlanta businessmen work to bring a major league soccer team to metro Atlanta, competing with several other cities vying for three-expansion teams before 2010, SPSU is kicking off the only intercollegiate men’s soccer program among the colleges and universities in Cobb County. Recruitment of student athletes begins immediately this fall along with the logistical changes needed to prepare SPSU’s fields and to acquire equipment. The team will play in the Southern States Athletic Conference (SSAC), which is part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).
Heading the new effort will be Kamiar Momeni, who comes to Southern Polytechnic from the position of first assistant head coach for men’s soccer at Coastal Carolina University, in Conway, SC, which is a top 25 Division I Program. In that role, he was named in College Soccer News as one of the “Nation’s Top 20 Assistant Coaches of 2004” and participated in four NCAA Tournament appearances.
According to Momeni, “It is good to be in a place where I set the tone and the standards for a brand new program. This is a unique opportunity that does not come along for many coaches. Rather than follow in another’s footsteps, I will make my own,
bringing to the table my experience working with students and with successful head coaches for the past nine years in my profession.”
Momeni is happy to be in a state that he calls “soccer friendly,” and to be at a university that values the academic standards of its athletes. “It will be my job to recruit players who are academically right for the university as first priority and for the program as second priority.”
SPSU Athletic Director Karl Staber calls Momeni’s selection a good choice for an exciting new program. “He is in tune with the challenges and requirements of bringing athletics and academics together, and he has experience in one of the premier Division I schools in the country.”
Momeni’s style is said to be flexible, and he says the art of coaching is “to work with what you have and to adapt to your environment.”
