HUNTINGTON — Chris Grassie has been named Marshall University’s new head men’s soccer coach, Director of Athletics Mike Hamrick announced Tuesday. Grassie, 38, returns to Huntington after spending the last six seasons at the University of Charleston, where he compiled a 99-20-8 record and advanced the Golden Eagles to the NCAA Division II Final Four the last three seasons. UC was the national runner-up in 2014 and 2016.
“We are fortunate to have found a coach with this amount of experience and success,” Hamrick said. “Chris has won consistently and at a high level for his entire head coaching career, he played college and coached in our state and spent three years working as an assistant coach to (retired head coach) Bob Gray here at Marshall.