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In four short years, Jeremy Gunn has engineered the rapid ascent of a Stanford men’s soccer program which now sits among the nation’s elite.

Hired in 2012 to lead a squad coming off a 6-10-2 finish, his work culminated in 2015 with the program’s first national championship in its 100-plus year history when the Cardinal routed Clemson, 4-0, at Sporting Park in Kansas City. The win, which was the largest margin of victory in a College Cup final since 1975, extended the school’s streak of at least one NCAA team championship to an ongoing record 40 years and was Stanford’s 108th NCAA team title.

One of four coaches to win NCAA titles in both Division I and Division II, Gunn’s teams are 50-20-11 (.685) in his four seasons on The Farm, including 31-5-6 (.810) over the past two. In leading Stanford to consecutive conference championships, Gunn was awarded Pac-12 Coach of the Year and NSCAA Far West Region Coach of the Year honors in both 2014 and 2015.

On the heels of Stanford’s national championship, Jordan Morris became the first MAC Hermann Trophy winner in program history and signed the most anticipated Homegrown Player contract in MLS history when he inked a deal with the Seattle Sounders in late January. The Cardinal also had three players – Brandon Vincent, Eric Verso and Ty Thompson – taken in the MLS SuperDraft for the first time in 13 years.

Gunn’s Cardinal teams have produced a pair of two-time NSCAA First Team All-Americans in Morris and Vincent, 13 NSCAA All-Far West Region winners, three players recognized among the nation’s best freshmen by Soccer America, Top Drawer Soccer and College Soccer News and 30 All-Pac-12 honorees. Stanford student-athletes under Gunn have also won recognition as Pac-12 Player of the Year (Jordan Morris – 2015), Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year (Brandon Vincent – 2014 and 2015), Pac-12 Freshman of the Year (Aaron Kovar – 2012) and Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year (Brandon Vincent – 2015).

Academically, one has been an NSCAA Scholar All-American (Ty Thompson – 2015), six have been named NSCAA Far West Region Scholars, 11 have claimed CoSIDA Academic All-District Accolades and Stanford men’s soccer student-athletes have found themselves on various conference all-academic squads 48 times over the past three seasons.

Creating an environment keen on player development, Gunn’s work at Stanford has attracted the attention of professional franchises and national team programs alike.

Jordan Morris became the face of college soccer in three years under Gunn. In November 2014, he became the first active collegian since 1995 to receive a cap for the U.S. Men’s National Team when he came on in the 76th minute in a friendly against Ireland in Dublin. On April 15, 2015 in San Antonio, Texas, Morris started and scored for the United States against Mexico, becoming the first college player to score for the USA since September 1992.

Vincent was pulled away from the MLS Combine after just one day when he was added to the U.S. Men’s National Team roster for its January 2016 training camp in Carson, Calif. by head coach Jurgen Klinsmann. The 2015 College Cup Defensive Most Outstanding Player earned his first MNT cap on Feb. 5 when he came on for the second half of a 1-0 win against Canada at StubHub Center.

Gunn previously served as head coach at the University of Charlotte for five seasons (2007-11), building the 49er program into a national title contender. He led Charlotte to two NCAA tournament appearances, including a run to the championship match of the 2011 College Cup before losing to top-ranked North Carolina. After the season, Gunn was named the NSCAA National Coach of the Year.

During the five seasons at Charlotte, Gunn compiled a 64-26-14 record, including a 5-2 mark in the NCAA Tournament. The 49ers also won a pair Atlantic-10 Conference titles in 2010 and 2011.

A 1993 graduate of CSU Bakersfield, Gunn began his coaching career as an assistant at his alma mater. He served on both the men's and women's coaching staffs during his seven-year stint at Bakersfield, helping the Roadrunners to the 1997 NCAA Division II National Championship and an appearance in the 1995 national semifinal.

After leaving CSU Bakersfield, Gunn went to Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo., where he built the program into a Division II power. Fort Lewis advanced to three national title games and won the 2005 Division II championship with a 22-0-1 mark, earning Gunn national coach of the year honors.

Gunn finished his eight-year career at Fort Lewis with an overall record of 123-35-17 and in 13 seasons at Fort Lewis and Charlotte, Gunn was 187-61-31 (.754).

Gunn also had a successful playing career. Growing up in England, he was a youth player at Grimsby Town F.C. and Scunthorpe United F.C., while representing the North Region as an English schoolboy. A first team All-American at CSU Bakersfield, Gunn played professionally from 1993-95 with the Chico Rooks Pro Soccer Club in Chico, California, the North Bay Breakers in Rohnert Park, California and in 1998 with the Nashville (Tenn.) Metros and the Charleston (S.C.) Battery of what is now called the United Soccer League (formerly the A-League).