Women's Soccer
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- Associate Head Coach
Glen Tourville recently completed his sixth season as the NC State women’s soccer associate head coach, helping the team reach the NCAA Tournament the past five fall seasons and at least the NCAA Second Round four times, including back-to-back Sweet Sixteen appearances in 2018 and 2019.
“To add someone of Glen’s experience and knowledge was exactly the goal of the search,” head coach Tim Santoro said upon Tourville's hiring. “Recruiting the best people is always my goal, whether its players or staff. Glen’s got an abundance of successful experience at all levels (youth, ODP, college and professional) and will add the expertise that NC State needs to keep evolving.”
“Glen and I have known each other for almost 15 years and have always tried to unite on the same staff. I’m glad the opportunity to work together is finally here.”
In 2022, NC State made its sixth consecutive NCAA Tournament in the fall season and is one of only six teams in the ACC to do so over this time period. This follows a 2021 campaign where NC State made its fifth straight NCAA Tournament for the first time in almost 30 years, and was one of three teams in the country to beat two top-five teams (a 2-1 win vs. No. 11 Duke and a 1-0 vs. No. 4 North Carolina) and had a strength of schedule of No. 4 in the country.
NC State is one of eight programs in the country and one of four in the ACC from 2016-21 to advance to at least the NCAA Second Round each year, with at least three of those being NCAA Sweet 16 appearances while also being ranked in the Top 25 of the RPI every year.
Tourville has played a significant role in the team's continued run of success since the Wolfpack's breakthrough in 2016.
In his six seasons with the Wolfpack, NC State has earned an NCAA Tournament berth every fall, including a pair of Sweet Sixteen appearances. The program has also finished with a .500 record or better, including three 10+ win seasons, every fall season that Tourville has been on staff.
In 2017, his first year, the Pack finished with a 15-5-2 mark for the most overall wins since 1995, and its 6-3-1 record in ACC play tied the most wins in school history against league opponents. Additionally, its third-place finish in the regular season standings that year was a program best. The 2018 season proved to be another successful one for the Pack, as it reached the NCAA Sweet Sixteen for the second time in three years and earned quality results over five top 20 opponents while finishing with a Top 25 RPI.
The 2019 campaign saw the program finish fifth overall in the conference standings, its second time in three years earning a top five finish, and its 4-2-4 ledger marked the fewest losses in league play since the expansion of the conference in 2004. NC State is one of 12 teams in the country from 2016-20 to be ranked in all three final top 25 polls every year, advance to three NCAA Sweet Sixteen rounds and advance to at least NCAA Second Round every year.
Since Tourville's arrival to Raleigh, the squad finished nationally ranked in at least one major poll in the 2017, '18 and '19 seasons. NC State also made history each of those years in the final NCAA rating percentage index (RPI), notching a program best number in each of those seasons. The 2019 squad boasted an RPI of 15 -- the highest ever for the Pack.
After not competing in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tourville saw the Pack return to the national spotlight in 2021 as it reached the NCAA Second Round for the fifth consecutive fall season and defeated three top 25 opponents, including wins over No. 3 North Carolina and No. 4 Duke, which had never been done before in program history. NC State was one of three teams in the 2021 campaign to earn two wins over top five opponents. He also helped to guide one of the youngest rosters in the nation, which featured seven freshmen in its starting lineup, through the second toughest schedule in the NCAA.
Thanks to strong play against ACC foes, NC State has earned an ACC Championship berth and advanced to the semifinal round in two of the last four fall seasons, and reached the semifinals both times (2017 and 2019).
Along with its successes at the national stage, the Pack was selected to host the NCAA First Round at Dail Soccer Stadium for three consecutive seasons (2017-19). Prior to 2017, NC State women’s soccer had never hosted an NCAA Tournament round.
Before joining the NC State coaching staff, Tourville served as the executive director of coaching for Classics Eagles FC in Columbus, Ohio.
Prior to his role with the Classic Eagles, Tourville served as both associate head coach and assistant coach at Ohio State University from 2008-2014. During that tenure, he played a prominent role in leading the Buckeyes to several program firsts, including the only Big 10 regular season conference title (2010), the program’s only appearance in the NCAA College Cup (2010), the program’s longest consecutive streak in the NCAA Tournament (five consecutive appearances) and the Buckeyes’ most recent Big 10 Tournament championship (2012).
Tourville, who has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Aurora (Ill.) University, has 17 years of collegiate head coaching experience in addition to 14 years as a coach with USYSA Region II Olympic Development Program.
Tourville’s ODP experience included twice serving as Region II Head Coach for teams that played in France (2005) and Costa Rica (2007).
Before Ohio State, Tourville spent one season at West Texas A&M after 11 years as the assistant athletics director and head coach for men’s and women’s soccer at NCAA Division III Hendrix College in Conway, Ark.
Tourville began coaching in 1982 as an assistant coach with the University of Illinois-Chicago men's soccer program. After playing collegiately at Illinois-Chicago after transferring from Eastern Illinois, Tourville gained professional soccer playing experience over four seasons in the American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League.
Tourville, who also coached professionally as the head coach of the Rockford Raptors of the USISL Men’s Professional Division (1995), has the following coaching licenses: USSF National "A" License, NSCAA Premier Diploma and USSF National Goalkeeper License. He also served as a member of the 1994 FIFA World Cup Technical Study Group.
Tourville and his wife, Paula, have a daughter (Micaela) and two sons (Chase and Austin).
