GREENWOOD – After eight seasons leading the men's soccer team, Lee Squires has accepted the head coaching position at Georgia Southern University.
"The Lander community would like to express our dearest thanks to Lee for his eight years leading the Lander men's soccer team," said Brian Reese. "Lee brought in student-athletes who exemplified everything that it meant to be a Bearcat through success on the field and the classroom. We look forward to seeing him have the same success at Georgia Southern and wish him and his family nothing but the best."
After taking over as the head coach in 2015, the Bearcats have seen success on a yearly basis under Squires.
Squires led the Bearcats to eight consecutive winning seasons with 16 wins coming in 2018.
Under Squires' guidance, Lander went 101-29-18 while making seven appearances in the Peach Belt Conference Tournament championship and five NCAA appearances that featured making it to the NCAA Quarterfinals in 2018.
Along with being named the PBC Coach of The Year four times, Squires produced six All-Americans, four academic All-Americans along with two PBC Tournament championships and four regular season titles.
In Squires last season, the Bearcats claimed their 11th PBC regular season title and sixth tournament title while advancing to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Two Bearcats were named All-Americans, two were named Academic All-Americans, eight were named to the All-PBC team and three were named to the D2CCA Southeast All-Region team.
'While I am excited and honored by this opportunity at Georgia Southern, I am going to miss Lander and the people here tremendously. I'd like to thank Jeff May for being so patient in hiring me back in 2015, and Brian Reese for his unwavering support since then," said Lee Squires. "Dr.Cosentino the administration,the faculty, staff, alumni, and supporters have all been a great source of support for me and my family since we arrived in Greenwood, and I couldn't be more grateful to them. I have had quality assistant coaches in my time here and thank them for their hard work in sustaining a successful program. And to all the student-athletes we have recruited and seen graduate in my 8 years here: thank you. I am proud of them all. Lander University is a special place and I am excited to support and watch the future success of the program."
Lander will conduct a national search to find just its fifth coach in program history.
Lander Since 2015
(2015) 14-3-2/6-2-1 [PBC Finals Appearance/NCAA Tournament Appearance]
(2016) 14-4-1/9-0-0 [PBC Finals Appearance/NCAA Tournament Appearance]
(2017) 13-4-3/6-0-1 [PBC Finals Champions/NCAA Tournament Appearance]
(2018) 16-2-3/6-1-0 [PBC Finals Appearance/NCAA Quarterfinals]
(2019) 12-5-2/5-2-0 [PBC Finals Appearance]
(2020) 9-0-1/8-0-0 [PBC Semifinals Appearance]
(2021) 11-8-0/7-5-0 [PBC Semifinals Appearance]
(2022) 12-3-6/8-1-3 [PBC Finals Champions/NCAA Tournament Appearance]
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