Shaun Docking
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head Coach |
| Team | Coastal Carolina Chanticleers |
| Conference | Sun Belt |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | Eastleigh, England |
| Alma mater | University of Akron |
| Playing career | |
| 1985–1988 | Akron Zips |
| 1993-1995 | Richmond Kickers |
| Position(s) | Midfielder Full-back |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1988-1995 | Richmond Spiders (assistant) |
| 1995 | VCU Rams (assistant) |
| 1996-1997 | Charleston Southern Buccaneers |
| 1998-present | Coastal Carolina Chanticleers |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 326-167-52 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Awards | |
| Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup 1995 Big South Coach of the Year 1997 2000 2002 2003 2007 2011 2012 Sun Belt Coach of the Year 2017 2020 | |
Shaun Docking is an English born American college soccer coach. He currently coaches the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers. He is going on his 27th season as the head coach of Coastal Carolina.
Playing career
Docking played college soccer for the Akron Zips. In his junior year, the Akron Zips were runners up in the 1986 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament. After his college playing career ended, he would go on to play for the Richmond Kickers while he was an assistant coach on the University of Richmond's men's soccer team. [1]
Coaching career
After graduating from the University of Akron. Docking became an assistant at the University of Richmond, he would serve in that role for 4 seasons. He would then spend one season at across town rival VCU Rams. Following his one season at VCU, he would become the head coach at Charleston Southern, he would take the Buccaneers to the NCAA tournament following a Big South tournament Championship in 1997. Following his successful 1997 campaign, he would become coach of Coastal Carolina. A position he has held since 1998.[2]
Docking is a seven time Big South Coach of the Year, and a two time Sun Belt Coach of the Year.
Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charleston Southern Buccaneers (Big South Conference) (1996–1997) | |||||||||
| 1996 | Charleston Southern | 4-14–1 | 1-5-1 | 8th | |||||
| 1997 | Charleston Southern | 16-5–1 | 5-2-0 | 2nd | NCAA 1st Round | ||||
| Charleston Southern: | 20–19–2 | 6–7–1 | |||||||
| Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (Big South Conference) (1998–2015) | |||||||||
| 1998 | Coastal Carolina | 7-9–2 | 3-3-0 | 4th | |||||
| 1999 | Coastal Carolina | 12-4-1 | 6-1-0 | 1st | |||||
| 2000 | Coastal Carolina | 11-5-1 | 5-2-0 | 1st | |||||
| 2001 | Coastal Carolina | 10-8-3 | 3-2-2 | 2nd | NCAA 1st Round | ||||
| 2002 | Coastal Carolina | 19-3-2 | 6-1-0 | 1st | NCAA 2nd Round | ||||
| 2003 | Coastal Carolina | 20-3-0 | 6-1-0 | 1st | NCAA 3rd Round | ||||
| 2004 | Coastal Carolina | 14-8-1 | 4-3-0 | 2nd | NCAA 1st Round | ||||
| 2005 | Coastal Carolina | 11-9-1 | 5-2-0 | 3rd | NCAA 1st Round | ||||
| 2006 | Coastal Carolina | 11-7-2 | 5-2-0 | 2nd | |||||
| 2007 | Coastal Carolina | 10-8-1 | 6-0-0 | 1st | |||||
| 2008 | Coastal Carolina | 10-10-1 | 5-2-1 | 2nd | |||||
| 2009 | Coastal Carolina | 9-2-7 | 5-0-3 | 1st | |||||
| 2010 | Coastal Carolina | 12-8-2 | 5-2-1 | 2nd | NCAA 1st Round | ||||
| 2011 | Coastal Carolina | 18-4-0 | 9-0-0 | 1st | NCAA 2nd Round | ||||
| 2012 | Coastal Carolina | 20-3-2 | 10-0-0 | 1st | NCAA 3rd Round | ||||
| 2013 | Coastal Carolina | 19-5-0 | 9-1-0 | 1st | NCAA 3rd Round | ||||
| 2014 | Coastal Carolina | 16-6-1 | 7-1-1 | 2nd | NCAA 2nd Round | ||||
| 2015 | Coastal Carolina | 13-3-4 | 6-1-2 | 2nd | NCAA 2nd Round | ||||
| Big South: | 242-105-31 | 105-24-10 | |||||||
| Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (Sun Belt Conference) (2016–2020) | |||||||||
| 2016 | Coastal Carolina | 10-7-3 | 3-1-1 | 1st | NCAA 2nd Round | ||||
| 2017 | Coastal Carolina | 14-7-1 | 4-1-0 | 1st | NCAA 3rd Round | ||||
| 2018 | Coastal Carolina | 10-6-0 | 2-2-0 | 4th | |||||
| 2019 | Coastal Carolina | 10-8-3 | 3-2-0 | 2nd | NCAA 2nd Round | ||||
| 2020 | Coastal Carolina | 9-5-2 | 5-1-0 | 1st | NCAA 2nd Round | ||||
| Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (Conference USA) (2021–2021) | |||||||||
| 2021 | Coastal Carolina | 6-5-4 | 3-1-4 | 4th | |||||
| Conference USA: | 6-5-4 | 3-1-4 | |||||||
| Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (Sun Belt Conference) (2022–present) | |||||||||
| 2022 | Coastal Carolina | 5-5-6 | 2-1-5 | 5th | |||||
| 2023 | Coastal Carolina | 3-9-3 | 1-6-2 | 10th | |||||
| Sun Belt: | 61-47-18 | 20-14-8 | |||||||
| Coastal Carolina: | 309-157-53 | 128-39-22 | |||||||
| Total: | 325-175-55 | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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Personal life
Shaun became briefly wrapped up in the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal, when a former girlfriend Kathleen Willey, came forward claiming that then President Bill Clinton had inappropriately touched her back in 1993. It came out in a 60 Minutes interview that she had faked a pregnancy in order to get revenge at Shaun.[4]