Jeff Hosler '02
Women's Soccer Head Coach
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Jeff Hosler '02 joins the Alma College Athletics staff as the Scots women's soccer coach for the 2006 season.
Hosler, a 2002 graduate of Alma College and a standout on the soccer pitch for the Scots, has spent the last four years coaching at both the high school and club levels as well as working as a retail manager at Back of the Net Sports in Lansing.
In his time at Alma, Hosler became one of the best players in the 30 years of Scots soccer. He remains the all-time assists leader and ranks in the top ten in career goals and in the top five in career points. He helped the Scots to their second MIAA title, first-ever NCAA Regional Championship and first-ever Final Four appearance in 1999 en route to first team All-MIAA and third team All-Mideast Region honors. He would go on to earn first team All-MIAA accolades again in 2001 and was named to the conference's second team in 2000.
He has served as the head coach of East Lansing High School's freshmen boys and girls soccer teams and worked as a varsity assistant with the soccer and boys basketball programs. At East Lansing he assisted in four conference championships, three state semi-final appearances and the 2005 boys soccer state championship.
Additionally, he coached in the Capital Area United Soccer Club with the Premier 93 Boys and 96 Boys, advancing to tournament play five times and winning the tournament twice. He also serves as Technical Director of the U13 and U14 training programs in one of Michigan's most competitive premier leagues.
He has also worked as an AAU girls basketball head coach in the Capitol City Express league with the 16 and under team, qualifying for the state tournament this spring.
Hosler has worked as a coach and director of myriad camps and clinics, including East Lansing Soccer Club Camp, Soccerzone Community Summer Camps and Central Michigan Univeristy Soccer Camp and holds a United States Soccer Federation (USSF) License.
