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Joe Thoma
Women's Head Coach

Joe Thoma enters his sixth season as head women's soccer coach at John Brown. In 2005, Thoma was named the Coach of the Year for both the conference and the region as well as the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Midwest Region. This followed his 2001 honors as NAIA Region VIII and NSCAA Central Region Coach of the Year during his time at Indiana Wesleyan (1999-2001). It was there that Thoma led two NCCAA national championship teams. In December 2001, he accepted the head-coaching position at John Brown, which was scheduled to inaugurate women's soccer the following August. His career record at John Brown and Indiana Wesleyan is 106-47-6.

Thoma was no stranger to John Brown University and Northwest Arkansas when he made his move from Indiana. Thoma began the boys' soccer program at Fayetteville High School in 1990 and started the first Lady Bulldogs team six years later. From 1997 until his departure to Indiana Wesleyan in 1999, Thoma served as a men's assistant coach at John Brown. Prior to his tenures in Arkansas, Thoma coached goalkeepers at Southern Nazarene University and boys' high school soccer in Yukon, Okla., during the late 1980's.

Thoma graduated from Southern Nazarene in 1988 with a degree in history after starting for four years as the Crimson Storm's goalkeeper. He received an M.A. in recreation and sport management from the University of Arkansas in 1996. Thoma has been married for 21 years and has two daughters. His family attends First Baptist Church in Siloam Springs, where he teaches Sunday School. In addition to his coaching duties at John Brown, Thoma teaches sport management classes to undergraduate students.

Contact Coach Thoma
phone: 479.238.8629 | e-mail: JThoma@jbu.edu