Steve Wieczorek was named Head Men’s Soccer Coach at SUNY Cobleskill in April 2026 after serving as an assistant coach at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) during the 2025 season.
A veteran of college soccer with experience across NCAA Division I, II, and III, Wieczorek has built a reputation for transforming programs, developing talent, and leading teams to historic success. Throughout his career, he has helped guide four collegiate programs to NCAA Tournament appearances as both a head coach and assistant coach while developing conference players of the year, conference rookies of the year, All-Americans, and future professionals.
Prior to RPI, Wieczorek spent the 2024 season as an assistant coach at the University at Albany following successful head coaching tenures at The College of Saint Rose and Spring Hill College.
Wieczorek was named head coach at Saint Rose prior to the 2022 season and immediately led the Golden Knights to one of the most successful seasons in program history. In his first season, Saint Rose earned its first NCAA Tournament appearance after finishing 9-5-4 overall and 5-3-3 in Northeast-10 Conference play. The Golden Knights received the No. 9 seed in Super Region I and advanced to the Northeast-10 Championship Quarterfinals in both of his seasons leading the program.
Saint Rose became the fourth collegiate program Wieczorek helped lead to the NCAA Tournament. Prior to Saint Rose, he spent six seasons as head coach at Spring Hill College, where he became the winningest coach in program history and elevated the Badgers into a nationally recognized NCAA Division II program.
During the 2018 season, Spring Hill produced one of the most dominant campaigns in Gulf South Conference history. The Badgers captured both the regular season and conference tournament championships with a perfect 11-0 conference record, becoming the only team in league history to accomplish the feat. Spring Hill finished 17-2 overall, advanced to the NCAA Tournament during the program’s first season of postseason eligibility and earned a No. 21 national ranking in the final United Soccer Coaches poll. The 17 victories established a new school record, while five players earned All-Conference honors, including United Soccer Coaches First Team All American Alex Lipinski.
Across his coaching career, Wieczorek has coached and developed multiple MLS Draft selections, a Gulf South Conference All-Decade Team selection, and two MAAC 40 Year Anniversary Team honorees. His programs have also consistently produced high achieving student-athletes in the classroom, including USC Team Academic Awards in every year as of head coaching career, multiple Academic All-Americans as well as the Academic All-American of Year in Division II in 2018.
In addition to his head coaching experience, Wieczorek has accumulated extensive NCAA Division I experience as an assistant coach with coaching stops at UAlbany, Oregon State, Duquesne and Siena. He began his coaching career at the University of Bridgeport where he spent two years as an assistant coach where he worked primarily with the goalkeepers.
As a student athlete, Wieczorek was a four-year goalkeeper at Fairfield, helping lead the Stags to four MAAC Tournament appearances and two MAAC Championship finals before beginning his coaching career with the program following graduation as goalkeeper coach.
Wieczorek graduated magna cum laude from Fairfield University in 2004 with a double major in English Literature and Communication. He earned a master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Fairfield and later completed his Ph.D. in Sport Management at Troy University.
He holds a United Soccer Coaches Premier Diploma, an Advanced National Goalkeeping Diploma, and a Performance Analyst Diploma. Wieczorek also teaches Sports Leadership courses at Creighton University in their Graduate School.
