Megan Valentine, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics at Hilbert College, is pleased to announce that Jeff Hallenbeck will join the WNY campus community as the full-time Head Men's Soccer coach and Athletics Operation Coordinator.
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 will make the move to Hilbert in early July after spending several seasons working in the Worcester, Mass. area at both Becker College and Curry College.
Hallenbeck recently served as the men's soccer head coach at Becker College the last two seasons and guided two of his recruited student-athletes to All-Conference honors during the 2018 fall season.
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 holds a USSF "F" License and has continued to advance his soccer education through the NSCAA with his most recent Premier Diploma received in 2014.
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.