Wisconsin Badgers

Coaching in his 13th year with the Wisconsin men's soccer program in 2021, associate head coach Keith Tiemeyer has been instrumental in the Badgers' success, taking UW to the NCAA tournament twice and to a Sweet 16 appearance in 2017.

He was named one of the nation's top assistant coaches by College Soccer News again in 2018 for the second time in his career for his role in UW's historic 2017 season. The Badgers won their first outright Big Ten Tournament title in program history while also advancing to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1995. Chris Mueller also became the first UW player to become a two-time All-American.
 
Tiemeyer and the Badgers became Big Ten Tournament Champions in 2017 after an incredible run, knocking off Michigan 4-0 in the semifinals and then defeating Indiana in penalty kicks, 4-2.
 
He earned the honor as one of the nation’s top assistant coaches first in 2013 after Tiemeyer was crucial in working with head coach John Trask that season to guide the Badgers to their first NCAA tournament berth in 18 years. Wisconsin won 14 games in 2013, the most wins for the program since it won the national championship in 1995.
 
For the first time in school history, Wisconsin had two top-10 selections and four overall draftees in the 2018 Major League Soccer SuperDraft. Tiemeyer was instrumental in the development of both No. 6 pick Chris Mueller and No. 9 pick Mark Segbers, as UW was the only school to have two players drafted in the top 10 of the first round that year. Tom Barlow was selected No. 39 in the second round to the New York Red Bulls and Mike Catalano was selected eighth in the third round by the Philadelphia Union.
 
Those were not the only pupils of Tiemeyer to be drafted in the first round though as standout AJ Cochran was the first Wisconsin player selected in the MLS SuperDraft since 2005 and the first player selected in the first round since Mike Gentile in 1995.
 
Under Tiemeyer’s direction, Cochran earned NSCAA All-American honors and became the first MAC Hermann Trophy semifinalist in school history.

Since then, Mitch Guitar was a 2021 MLS SuperDraft pick.
 
Overall, Tiemeyer has coached 12 players that went on to play professionally.
 
He also played a huge part in the development of Sam Brotherton – the first ever Badger to declare for the English Premiere league. Brotherton accepted a contract to play for AFC Sunderland after an incredibly successful sophomore campaign. The captain was the first Badger to ever win the NSCAA Player of the Week award for his success playing for the New Zealand national team. Brotherton earned Academic All-Big as well as 2016 All-District team.
 
Tiemeyer helped Chris Mueller to earn Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year in 2017, back-to-back first-team All-Big Ten honors and back-to-back Midwest All-Region first-team honors. Not only did Mueller become the first in program history to earn second-team All-America honors, he also became the first two-time All-American in UW annals. In 2017, Mueller led the nation in both assists (20) and assists-per-game (.95).
 
Tiemeyer was key in evaluating and bringing in a 13-man senior class that went on to set numerous records in 2013. Tiemeyer's coaching helped both Tomislav Zadro and AJ Cochran earn 2013 Big Ten Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year honors, respectively. The duo became the first pair of players from the same school to sweep the conference's top honors.
 
Off the pitch, Tiemeyer has led the Badgers in the classroom to receive several Academic All-Big Ten awards, CoSIDA Academic All-Region and All-District award and the 2018 spring GPA was the highest in program history.
 
Tiemeyer and Trask led the team to a runner-up finish in the Big Ten Championship against No. 1-ranked Maryland before bubbling out of the NCAA tournament despite an impressive 11-4-4 overall mark and 4-2-2 Big Ten record in 2016. The Badgers also garnered seven Big Ten postseason honors.
  
In 2014, Tiemeyer and Trask took a young squad of Badgers and developed the team into a group that fought throughout the season and contended with some of the top competition in the country. Perhaps no one benefitted more from the coaching than newcomers Tom Barlow, Mike Catalano and Mark Segbers, who were each named to the 2014 Big Ten All-Freshman Team and eventually were all drafted into MLS.
 
In Tiemeyer's third season at Wisconsin, the Badgers recorded their most wins since the 2003 season. The Badgers finished 2011 with a record of 10-8-2 and a semifinal finish at the Big Ten tournament. Wisconsin earned its first true victory at the conference tournament with a 2-0 win over Michigan in the opening round. Tiemeyer also helped coach UW to a 2-0 shutout victory over then-No. 6 Indiana on Oct. 2, marking Wisconsin's first win over the Hoosiers in 16 years.
 
Prior to arriving in Madison, Tiemeyer spent two seasons (2007-08) as the head coach at Regis University, his alma mater. In two years, Tiemeyer guided Regis, an NCAA Division II institution in Denver, Colorado, to a 19-15-3 record. In his first season as head coach, he matched the best record in school history and guided the Rangers to an 11-7-1 record, including a 9-4-1 record in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference play.
 
Tiemeyer joined the Regis staff as an assistant coach in 2006 and prior to that served as an assistant coach at the University of Denver from 1994-99.
 
Tiemeyer is no stranger to the state, having also worked with the Madison 56ers, Madison FC, FC Wisconsin, Waunakee Soccer Club and the Wisconsin ODP teams.
 
Graduating from Regis with a bachelor's degree in business administration and finance in 1991, Tiemeyer became involved in the Colorado State Youth Soccer Association and eventually served as a coach and evaluator for the state's Olympic Development Program from 1998 to 2002.