Michael Swanwick is Eastern New York Youth Soccer’s State Technical and Education Director.
As ENYYSA Director of Coaching Education, Swanwick is responsible for helping develop and implement all policies, procedures and course curriculum for the ENYYSA Coaching Education Program. Working with the ENYYSA Coaching Education Committee, he selects and trains staff instructors, schedules education courses and prepares an education calendar. He is also responsible for overseeing the state’s ODP programs and will be working with clubs and leagues on player and coaching development initiatives.
In addition to his ENYYSA role, Swanwick – holder of a USSF A License and one of the first in the nation to get his National Youth License and become a National Youth License instructor –- is the head men’s coach at Manhattan College, a Division 1 program that plays in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (the MAAC). Prior to Manhattan, he served for five years as the head men’s coach at Dominican College. At Dominican, he was named CACC Coach of the Year following the 2004 season after leading his team to a 15-6-1 record, the CACC Conference Championship, the ECAC Championship, and a final NSCAA New England Regional ranking of sixth. He also won the conference championship in 2002, and turned around a program that posted a 3-17 season prior to his arrival.
Prior to his time at Dominican, Swanwick was the head men’s soccer coach at Orange County Community College, where the led his squad to three straight Mid Hudson Conference Championships and three consecutive season in the NJCAA rankings. The year before his arrival OCCC posted a 1-18 record, but the 1999 OCCC men’s soccer team finished with an overall record of 12-6 and a final NJCAA/NSCAA ranking of 19th in the nation. Swanwick was voted Region XV Coach of the Year in 1997.
Swanwick played junior college soccer at Spartanburg Methodist College, an NJCAA Division I school. He is second on the list of all-time leading scorers at SMC. He was named a First Team All South All-American and nominated for National All American his sophomore year. He continued his soccer career at NCAA Division I Marshall University in Huntington, WV.
Coach Swanwick received his Master’s Degree in social work from Fordham University in 1997. Swanwick and his wife, Elisabeth, reside in Staten Island, N.Y. with their three daughters.
