Jeff Hallenbeck begins his third year as the men's soccer head coach after being introduced as Hilbert's athletics operation coordinator and head men’s soccer / associate head women's soccer coach at the start of the 2019-20 academic year.
The 14-man roster went 0-13-1 in Hallenbeck's first season, after they pulled a draw against Thiel College and dropped a pair of 1-goal losses to Wells and Pitt-Greensburg.
Hallenbeck and his staff pulled together in the off-season and focused on building a healthy and competitive 2020 roster in preparation for their 2020 16-game schedule. But with the advent of COVID-19 and for the safety of our student-athletes, coaches and all members of our campus community, Hilbert College and the Athletics Department announced that the fall 2020 men's soccer competition opportunities will transition into the spring 2021 semester. The Hawks played in four spring exhibition games and look forward to returning to full competition in the fall 2021.
Hallenbeck will elevate the support and development the men’s soccer players and the program’s alumni will receive as a full-time staff member. He made the move to Hilbert in July 2019 after spending several seasons working in the Worcester, Mass. area. Hallenbeck served as the men’s soccer head coach at Becker College in 2017 and 2018 and guided two of his recruited student-athletes to All-Conference honors at the conclusion of his second year.
He made the jump from a successful high school head coaching job (Medway, MA) to the collegiate level when he moved to Sheridan College (Wyoming) and took over the NJCAA men’s soccer program in February 2014. Hallenbeck made the transition to Division III two seasons later, returning to Milton, Mass as an assistant men’s soccer coach at Curry College in June 2016. He then landed at Becker in February 2017.
Hallenbeck led his high school prep teams (2010-2014) to several championships and was named the 2013 Boston Globe State Division III Coach of the Year.
Hallenbeck has remained very active in the summer soccer camp and club soccer scene in both the Boston, MA and in the Syracuse, N.Y. regions.
He earned a Premier Diploma in 2014 from the NSCAA, an organization now known as the United Soccer Coaches.
Hallenbeck earned his bachelor of science degree in movement arts/physical education from Eastern Nazarene College and a master’s degree in educational administration of from The University of Scranton.
