Coach Roy Gordon (center) poses for a photo with Director of Athletics Patrick Catullo ’95 (left) and Vice President for Advancement and Alumni Engagement Katie Turcotte (right) during a ceremony held Sunday to name the Roy Gordon Field. Photo courtesy of Katie Turcotte.
As founding coach of the University of Mary Washington men’s soccer team, Roy Gordon led his players to win after win and multiple championships throughout his 34-year career.
Along the way, Gordon coached the Eagles to nine NCAA tournament appearances and eight Capital Athletic Conference (CAC) titles and amassed a record 432 wins – a feat that earned him a spot among NCAA Division III coaching elite. He also oversaw the relocation in the 1980s of Mary Washington’s home field to the Battlefield Athletic Complex, which hosted the NCAA Division III national championship in 1997.
Joined by his family, friends, former colleagues, current coaching staff, university administrators and players from the past and present, Gordon scored yet another accolade on Sunday, Aug. 31, as the University named the championship soccer field in his honor. The initiative, spearheaded by decades of alumni student-athletes dedicated to the game, culminated in a ceremony held between the women’s and men’s soccer matches, when UMW unveiled a scoreboard overlooking the Roy Gordon Field.
“Mary Washington has been an incredible place for me to have worked,” said Gordon, who was inducted into the UMW Athletics Hall of Fame after his retirement in 2011. Read more.