Dan Donigan 1993

Dan Donigan was born August 3rd, 1966 in Trenton, New Jersey. He grew up in Trenton, New Jersey and attended Steinert High School in Hamilton Township, New Jersey. Dan scored 34 goals in his senior year, leading Steinert to the Group 3 state championship. In 1999, he was named by The Star-Ledger as one of the top ten New Jersey high school soccer players of the 1980's.

After graduating from high school in 1984, Dan attended the University of Connecticut (UConn) where he played as a forward on the men's soccer team from 1985 to 1988. During his four season with the Huskies, he was three-time second and third team All-American. In 1988, he received the Adidas Adi Dasslar Award as the nation's "Most Outstanding Senior Soccer Player" in 1988. He finished his collegiate career with 35 goals and 40 assists for 110 points. While he left college without completing his degree, he later returned and earned a B.S. in Business Administration in 1998.

After finishing his collegiate career, he embarked on a life as a soccer journeyman. Like many U.S. soccer players in the 1980s and early 1990s, his was an itinerant life, moving from one failing indoor and outdoor club to another. In 1989, he played with the Boston Bolts of the American Soccer League. He scored four goals, adding seven assists, as the Bolts went to the ASL championship game only to fall to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. In 1990 and 1991, moved to the Penn-Jersey Spirit of the American Professional Soccer League, successor league to the ASL. He earned APSL All Star recognition in 1990. In 1991, he played in 11 games, but scored no goals. That winter he joined the St. Louis Storm of Major Indoor Soccer League for the 1991-1992 sesaon. The Storm traded Dan to the Wichita Wings towards the end of the season and he scored a goal for the Wings over the Dallas Sidekicks in a March 1992 game. From Wichita, he moved to the Milwaukee Wave of the National Professional Soccer League for two seasons, 1992-1994.

In 1993, while with the Wave, he spent one more outdoor season, this time with the Rowdies in the APSL. He appeared in 22 games and scored 8 goals.

He spent time with the Washington Warthogs before returning to the Wave for two more seasons. In 1997, he moved to the St. Louis Ambush for two seasons. He finished his playing career with the St. Louis Steamers of the World Indoor Soccer League.
Dan also spent time with the Rockford Raptors (USISL).

On September 15th, 1990, he earned his only cap with the U.S. national team in a 3-0 victory over Trinidad and Tobago.
In 1988, Dan earned 4 caps for the U.S. futsal team.

In 1994, Dan was splitting his playing time between the indoor Milwaukee Wave and the outdoor Rockford Raptors, when he began his coaching career as assistant men's soccer coach at UConn. He would go on to serve as an assistant for three seasons. Then in 1997, St Louis University hired him as their assistant coach. On February 5th, 2001, the University hired him as its current, and fifth, head soccer coach.

Dan Donigan won the title of Atlantic 10 Conference Coach of the Year in 2006 and 2007.

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