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Brian Dooley, a longtime South Florida soccer fixture, enters his 10th season as head coach at Florida Atlantic University. An outstanding four-year stint as head coach of nearby Barry University, followed with his exceptional nine-year run in Boca Raton has placed Dooley in the company of the nation's most successful collegiate coaches.

Winning over 70% of his career matches, Dooley's all-time record entering the 2008 season stands at 163-65-14 (.702), ranking him 14th among active Division I coaches in career winning percentage. 10 times in 13 seasons as a head coach his teams have won 11 or more matches. Seven different times his teams have posted season win-totals of 14 or more.

The Owls have enjoyed eight-straight winning seasons under Dooley. He has taken the university to its first appearance in the NCAA College Cup tournament and his 66-20-5 conference record since he took over at FAU in 1999 has put the Owls in position to consistently challenge for league titles.

Dooley came to FAU and immediately elevated the Owls into the top-tier of the Atlantic Sun Conference, taking FAU to four-straight A-Sun title matches from 2000-2003. Making Dooley's early accomplishments at FAU even more impressive is the fact that FAU had won just eight A-Sun matches in the six seasons prior to his arrival in 1999.

FAU has averaged nearly 12 wins per season and seven league victories per year since 2000. Dooley's FAU squad of 2003 won a program-best 16 matches. The 2003 Owls finished 16-4-1 and were 10-1 versus A-Sun opponents. Two years later, in 2005, the Owls would again finish 16-4-1, running the table in A-Sun play (9-0) and claiming both the A-Sun Tournament Championship and the league's regular season title en route to qualifying for the NCAA College Cup tournament for the first time in university history.

After winning three A-Sun regular season titles and enjoying a seven-year run in which FAU was the only A-Sun team to qualify for the A-Sun postseason tournament, Dooley and the Owls made the transition into the Sun Belt Conference in 2006.

Dooley's teams have consistently played excellent defense - in fact the 2006 Owls led all Division I teams in shutout percentage (.762), holding opponents scoreless in 16 of its 21 games. As a second-year Sun Belt member in 2007 Dooley's defensive-minded Owls posted nine shutouts, allowing just 6.8 shots per match and surrendering just 15 goals.

Dooley's 110 wins in nine seasons has firmly established a winning tradition at FAU. His imprint on the FAU program and the student-athletes he has coached has been incredible. In seven seasons (1999-05) as an Atlantic Sun Conference member, three different FAU players under Dooley were named the A-Sun Player of the Year. 17 were honored as first-team all-conference selections, 16 second-team honorees and 11 were tabbed as all-freshmen team selections. The Sun Belt Conference named a pair of Owls' to its 2007 first team while two more earned second team distinction.

Another major influence Dooley has had on the program is the University's involvement in women's soccer on an international level. FAU has served as a host practice facility for several national teams, including the USA National Team.

Prior to coming to FAU in 1999 Dooley spent a total of nine seasons at Barry, his first five as an assistant coach. In 1995, his first season as head coach, the Lady Bucs advanced to the Division II National Championship game. Dooley and the Lady Bucs followed that campaign with NCAA Tournament appearances in 1996, 1997 and 1998.

His teams at Barry were virtually unbeatable at home, going 29-1-2 in Miami Shores under his watch. Barry's overall record with Dooley as head coach was 53-12-4. He coached nine National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) All-America players in four seasons as the team's head coach.

Prior to taking over the program at Barry, Dooley served as an assistant there for five years (1990-94). During that time, he played an instrumental role in the team's success, helping the Lady Bucs post a 71-11-2 record, including winning back-to-back NCAA Division II National Championship titles in 1992 and 1993.

Dooley attended Florida International University where he was a midfielder on FIU's 1982 NCAA Division II National Championship team. He received a bachelor's degree from Nova Southeastern University in 1987.

Following his playing career, Dooley was an assistant women's soccer coach at Florida International for five years and the head girl's soccer coach at Hollywood Hills High School for four seasons. He also was head boy's soccer coach at South Plantation High School for seven seasons before taking the head coaching position at Barry.

Dooley has been involved in youth soccer for more than a decade. He currently is the coaching director for the Weston Soccer Club. He is a member of the Florida Youth Soccer Association State Coaching State.

Dooley and his wife, Marie, live in Pembroke Pines and are the parents of three boys: Sean, 18, Connor, 15, and Ciaran, 9.