Having just finished his 14th season as the head coach of both men's soccer program at Colorado State University-Pueblo, Roy Stanley has turned the program into a perennially competitive team.

In 1994, Stanley inherited a men's program in disarray and a women's program which was beginning its first year of competition. Stanley's teams struggled during those early years, but he established discipline and a solid work ethic that eventually began to pay dividends.

In 2004, Stanley led both teams to winning records and appearances in the RMAC Championship Tournament. It marked the first year in Stanley's 16-year coaching career that he achieved such success as coach of both the men's and women's teams. For their efforts, both squads were among the most-improved teams in the country from 2003 to 2004. The men's team, in addition to knocking off 8th-ranked Fort Lewis in the RMAC Semifinals, also earned their first national ranking since 2002, appearing at #24 on the September 22 poll.

In 2002, Stanley guided both the men and the women to spots in the conference tournament. The women, who started slowly versus a tough non-conference schedule, rebounded to finish third in the regular season RMAC standings and qualified for their second straight league tournament. The men, picked to finish last by league coaches in the pre-season poll, finished the year fourth in the conference and made their first appearance in the national polls since the 2000 pre-season when they appeared at #23 in the September 24th rankings.

Stanley's peers rewarded his efforts by naming him the NSCAA/adidas Division II Men's Midwest Region Coach of the Year.

In 2001, the women advanced to the finals of the RMAC Tournament before falling to then third-ranked Regis 2-0. The T-Wolves finished the year with a 10-8-2 record, marking their second consecutive winning season and the fourth one in program history. Under Coach Stanley's tutelage, the CSU-Pueblo women have had seven or more wins in each of the last seven seasons, including a thenschool-record 12 in 1997.

In fact, Stanley helped the Lady T-Wolves become the most improved team in the conference during the 90's, going from 1-13 in 1994 to 7-10 in 1995 to 10-8-1 in 1996 and 12-6-1 in 1997.

In 1999, the men's team recorded its best record ever at 15-5-1, won the RMAC regular-season title, placed second in the RMAC Tournament and finished the year ranked 19th nationally.

For his efforts, Stanley was named the RMAC Co-Coach of the Year in 1999.

Overall, Stanley is 101-158-26 with the men and 89-99-17 with the women for a combined CSU-Pueblo record of 190-257-43.

Following the 2006 season, Stanley relinquished the position of women's soccer coach to focus solely on helming the men's team.

Prior to coming to the then-University of Southern Colorado, Stanley was the men's and women's soccer coach at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock. At UALR, Stanley's men finished runner-up in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament in 1993.

UALR's women, despite a roster full of inexperienced players, went head-to-head against some of the top teams in the nation including perennial powers Creighton University, the University of Tulsa and the University of North Carolina.

In 1990, Stanley guided the UALR men's and women team to new school-records for the most wins in a season with nine and eight, respectively.

During his tenure in Arkansas, he served as the state's Olympic Development Program head coach for three years.

Stanley's coaching career started in 1986 when he took the assistant soccer coach position at Evansville University.

The following season, he moved to the University of Tulsa to serve in the same capacity. While coaching at Tulsa, Stanley earned his master's of arts degree in health, physical education and recreation.

As an undergraduate at Princeton University, Stanley was a four-time All-Ivy League selection, registering three goals and 11 assists during his career.

He graduated from Princeton in 1985 with a bachelor of arts degree in politics.

As a high school standout in the St. Louis, Mo. area, Stanley was named All-American by Parade Magazine.

In fourteen years in the Pueblo community, Stanley has made his presence felt in the soccer circles.

He regularly serves in different capacities with the local youth soccer organization, the Pueblo Rangers, the Pueblo Soccer and Sports Association, and La Gente Youth Sports.

Stanley is a member of the National Soccer Coaches of America Association. He also holds a U.S. Soccer A Coaching License.

Stanley and his wife, Dianna, a social studies and English teacher at Vineland Middle School (named 2004 District 70 Teacher of the Year), reside in Pueblo, Colo. and have two sons, Dylan, 8, and Logan, 3.