Women's Soccer
Chris Flint
9th season
Colby College '92
One of the most respected and well-regarded coaches in New England, Bryant University head women's soccer coach Chris Flint has built the Bulldog program into one of the region's best over the past eight seasons.
Entering his ninth season at the helm of the women's soccer program this fall, Flint will guide the Bulldogs into its debut season at the Division I level as the school makes its transition to the highest tier of NCAA competition. The Bulldogs will be joining the Northeast Conference, where Bryant will become the conference's 12th full member in 2012-13.
Under Flint's direction, the Bulldogs have produced 13 or more wins six times, including in the past five consecutive seasons, and continue to crack the top-25 national poll on a regular basis.
In 2007, the Bulldogs set a new school record with 17 victories, advancing to their second consecutive NCAA Tournament berth. During the course of the season, Bryant reached a No. 2 national ranking, thanks in part to a 2-1 win over nationally-ranked Franklin Pierce at the Bryant Turf Complex.
Flint and the 2007 Bulldogs placed two standouts, then junior defender Danielle Malta and then-senior Tricia Spada, on the NSCAA All-American First Team, while Malta also earned an Academic All-American nod as well as garnering a Daktronics Third Team All-American accolade. Five players were named all-conference and all-region selections, as the Bulldogs finished the year ranked No. 13 nationally.
By far Bryant's most successful women's soccer coach in the program's 29-year history, Flint has gone 96-55-15 since arriving in Smithfield, RI, in 2000, including a 64-37-11 mark in a tough Northeast-10 Conference.
In 2006, Flint guided the Bulldogs to a then-school record 15 wins, including an appearance in the Northeast-10 Championship Game and an NCAA Tournament berth. Four players earned all-conference honors in 2006, including Casey Grange, who set school records for goals in a season and a career, and became the first Bulldog to score 100 career points. Grange also became the first Bulldog to earn an All-American selection.
Flint won his 100th career game on October 8, 2006 in a 2-1 victory over Holy Family University.
Just three years into his tenure at Bryant, Flint coached the Bulldogs to their first back-to-back winning seasons in school history (13-8 in 2001 and 8-6-3 in 2002), and his Bulldogs haven't dipped below .500 since his first season as head coach.
Under Flint's tutelage, Bryant earned its first-ever national ranking and NCAA Tournament berth (both coming in 2001) and has boasted 25 all-conference and 21 all-region selections. Flint has also nurtured a pair of NE-10 Defensive Players of the Year.
With all his success, it comes as no surprise that Flint himself has two Northeast-10 Conference Coach of the Year awards as well as a pair of Regional Coach of the Year accolades. Flint was also named the NEWISA Coach of the Year in 2001.
Flint came to Bryant after spending four seasons as head coach at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. After going 3-14-0 in his first year, Flint led Massachusetts College to its first winning campaign in five seasons with a 10-8-0 showing in 1998. His squad finished the 1999 season with a 9-9-1 overall record, including two wins against teams that reached the NCAA Tournament.
Before joining the staff at Massachusetts College, Flint spent one year as a graduate assistant men's soccer coach at Springfield College, having also worked as an assistant baseball coach at St. Thomas Aquinas High School (Dover, N.H.) and as an assistant soccer and alpine ski coach at Dover (N.H.) High School. Flint also served as the Girls' Director of Coaching for the Rhode Island Olympic Development Program.
Flint is a 1992 graduate of Colby College, where he was a standout for the White Mule soccer team. Flint led Colby in scoring in three of his four seasons and was an All-New England selection as a junior. Earning his undergraduate degree in business administration, Flint added a master's degree in sport management from Springfield College in 1995.
Flint holds a premier coaching diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America and has also served on the NCAA Division III women's soccer regional advisory committee.
Originally from Brookline, N.H., Flint and his wife, Karen, have
two sons, Andrew (9) and Tucker (7), and reside in Barrington, R.I.
