Ben Brewster - Men's Soccer Coach - University of Massachusetts Athletics

Ben Brewster

Title:
Associate Head Coach
Email:
brewster@umass.edu
Phone:
545-4341

Ben Brewster joined his former collegiate head coach Fran O’Leary’s staff at the University of Massachusetts prior to the 2017 season and was promoted to associate head coach in 2019 after playing under O’Leary for three seasons at Bowdoin College during his four-year career from 2010-13.

Brewster helped coach the Minutemen to one of 14 at-large bids to the 2020 NCAA Tournament on their way to a first round bye. The Minutemen earned three first-team all-conference selections, including junior defender Graham Brenner. UMass ranked 15th nationally as a team in goals and 25th in assists, led by Atlantic 10 leading scorer Alec Hughes and assist leaders Yosuke Hanya and Ben Shepherd.

In his first season as an associate head coach, Brewster helped the Minutemen lead the Atlantic 10 in goals against average at 0.93 while ranking inside the top-30 nationally in the category. Brewster's first two seasons saw the Minutemen qualify for the Atlantic 10 Tournament while UMass claimed both the A-10 regular season and tournament titles to become the first team in the league to accomplish the feat since 1991. In 2018, Brewster helped the Minutemen reach their fourth consecutive A-10 Tournament, marking the second time in program history that Minutemen reached the conference post-season in four straight seasons.

At Bowdoin, Brewster was a two-time team captain during his senior and junior seasons and capped off his stellar career by being named a NSCAA First-Team All-American in 2013 after earning all-region and first-team all-conference honors in his final two seasons. A two-time Team MVP, Brewster helped Bowdoin advance to the Division III Final Four in San Antonio, Texas while being named the NESCAC Rookie of the Year in 2010. In addition to his accomplishments on the pitch, Brewster was a first-team all-region and all-conference honoree and an all-America honorable mention selection for the Bowdoin Men’s Lacrosse team. Brewster earned multiple Bowdoin College awards during his collegiate career as he earned the Bowdoin Men’s Soccer George Levine Memorial Award for sportsmanship, valor and desire in 2011 and 2013 while earning the Sid Watson Award that is presented yearly to the student-athlete who has distinguished themselves through athletic performance and leadership of multiple teams at Bowdoin in 2013-14.

Brewster began his professional career with the Seacoast United Phantoms of the Premier Development League (PDL) in 2014, where he was a team captain in 2014 for a team that posted an 11-1-2 record on their way to winning the Northeast Division. In 2015, he signed with the Tulsa Roughnecks of the United Soccer League, starting 19 games and ranking eighth on the squad in minutes played. Brewster played for San Francisco FC in the PDL in 2016-17 as a team captain while beginning his coaching career as the head coach at The Bay School of San Francisco in 2016, where he led the varsity boys’ team to their first NCS playoff berth and win since the 2012 season.

A native of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Brewster graduated from Bowdoin College in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. Brewster holds a National C coaching license from the United States Soccer Federation.