Travers Evans

Travers Evans

Title: Head Men's Soccer Coach
Phone: 207.326.2112
Email: travers.evans@mma.edu
Year: 5th Year
College: UMaine '96

 

Travers Evans enters his fifth season as the head of the Men's Soccer program. The 2010 season marked the first time the men’s soccer program had advanced to back to back North Atlantic Conference tournaments in the program’s history, and the two year total of 14 wins was the most since the 1997-1998 seasons.  Two Mariners were honored by the conference at the end of the season.  Sophomore Abdullah Alkhayyat was selected as a first team player, while Junior Nate Tipton was selected to the second team.  The 2009 season was one of the best in recent history for the Mariners with a 8-6-3 record and a berth in the NAC tournament semi-finals for the first time in the program's history.  Five Mariners were honored by the North Atlantic Conference at the end of the season.  First year player Abdullah Alkhayyat was honored as a first team player while Nick El-Hajj, Nate Tipton, Dylan Burr, and Jeff Butland were all named to the second team.  In addition Coach Evans was selected as the NAC Coach of the Year.  Coach Evans took over a program that had won just one game in 2006. His 2007 team won three matches, and in 2008, the team continued to improve by winning four matches despite starting seven first year players. Two of those first year players, Nick El-Hajj, and Nate Tipton, were selected as 2nd Team All-Conference members.

Prior to coming to MMA, Coach Evans spent 11 years at the University of Maine. He lead his 2003 men's soccer team to their first post season appearance since 1993, and the most wins in almost a decade. For his efforts that season he was named the America East conference Coach of the Year. Prior to being hired as the head men's soccer coach, Evans served as the Assistant Director of Soccer Operations for one season and served as the Assistant Men's Soccer Coach for three seasons.

Evans has been very active in the youth soccer scene in Maine as well. He is the co-founder, former president, and current coach in the Blackbear United Football Club. Blackbear United is a youth soccer program that services approximately 300 players in the greater Bangor area. He also served as a coach in the Olympic Development program in Maine for five seasons, most recently coaching the 1987 boys. Evans has also served as a guest lecturer at the Maine AGM in both 1998 and 2006. Coach Evans has also taken both his National and Advanced National Coaching Diploma Courses with the NSCAA.

Prior to the beginning of his coaching career Evans played collegiately at Northeastern University. Evans played for New Hampshire coaching legend Jim Tufts at Exeter High School for two seasons, and for two seasons under the tutelage of longtime Portland High School coach Rocco Frenzilli. He was a member of the New Hampshire Olympic Development Program, and was named to the Foster's Daily Democrat dream team in 1989. Evans earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Biology from the University of Maine in 1997.

Coach Evans lives in Castine with his wife Johanna and their three children, son Riley 9 and daughters Taylor 7, and Acadia 4. 

 


Men's Soccer Program Highlights

 

2 - 100 Point Scorers

1 - 200 Point Scorer

6 - NECC Titles

22 - NAC All-Conference Selections

8 - All-Maine Selections

5 - Sportsmanship Awards

5 - All-Academic Selections

2 - Academic All-Americans

2 - Coach of the Year

3 - All-American Selections

46 - NECC All-Stars

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