Rob Ryerson

Infobox Football biography
playername= Rob Ryerson
fullname = Rob Ryerson
nickname =


dateofbirth =
cityofbirth =
countryofbirth = United States
height =
position = Forward
youthyears = 1983-1985
youthclubs = UNLV
years = 1986
1986-1988
1988-1989
1988-1991
1992
clubs = San Diego Nomads
Baltimore Blast "(indoor)"
Fort Wayne Flames "(indoor)"
Maryland Bays
Washington Warthogs "(indoor)"
Tampa Bay Rowdies
caps(goals) =
26 (6)
01 (0)
nationalyears = 1988
nationalteam = United States
nationalcaps(goals) = 01 (1)
manageryears = 1996-1997
1997-1998
2000-
managerclubs = Washington Warthogs "(assistant)"
Baton Rouge Bombers
Mount Saint Mary's University
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ntupdate =

Rob Ryerson is a retired U.S. soccer forward who played professionally, both indoor and outdoor soccer, for at least seven years. He is currently the Mount Saint Mary's University soccer coach.

Player

Youth

Rob Ryerson attended Oakland Mills High School where he played for the school's boys soccer team. He was selected as the Howard County "Player of the Year". He was also a high school All-American his senior year. Ryerson played three seasons of collegiate soccer while attending the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He was All Far West in 1983, 1984 and 1985. He was also the 1985 All Big West Player of the Year. He was a third team NSCAA All-American in 1984 and 1985 and a Soccer America Magazine first team All American in 1985. He holds the top two positions on the Big West season scoring record list with 21 goals (9 assists) in 1985 and 20 goals (7 assists) in 1984. He also scored 16 goals in 1983. He attained his degree and graduated from UNLV in 1988.

Professional

After leaving UNLV, Ryerson played the 1986 season with the San Diego Nomads of the Western Soccer Alliance. He was 5th on the alliance's goals list with 6. That winter he joined the Baltimore Blast of Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL). In 1988, Ryerson signed with the Fort Wayne Flames of the American Indoor Soccer Association under coach and former Blast teammate Dave MacKenzie. Ryerson appeared in the final 26 games of the season, scored 6 goals and added 5 assists for 11 points.

From 1988 to 1991, he played for the Maryland Bays first of the American Soccer League and then the American Professional Soccer League. He was an ASL All Star in 1988 and was a member of the 1990 APSL championship Bays. In 1992 he played 1 game for a total of 6 minutes with the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the American Professional Soccer League. [ [http://a-leaguearchive.tripod.com/1992/stats92.htm#TB 1992 APSL Statistics] ]

He also played with the Washington Warthogs of the Continental Indoor Soccer League. In 1996 he became an assistant coach with the Warthogs.

National team

In 1988, he played his only full international match with the United States men's national soccer team. He scored the winning goal in a 1-0 victory over Costa Rica on June 14.

Coach

In 1997, he became the head coach of the Baton Rouge Bombers of the Eastern Indoor Soccer League. He led the Bombers to the championship game, losing to the Lafayette Swampcats, and earning Coach of the Year honors. The EISL only lasted two seasons, folding in 1998. Ryerson then began collegiate coaching. Ryerson is the head coach of Mount Saint Mary's University soccer team since 2000. Ryerson was head coach of the 2004 Maryland Boys U/17 ODP.

He was selected to the UNLV Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998 and the school retired his jersey number (10). In 2006 he was inducted into the Maryland Soccer Hall of Fame.

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