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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Brdarski named head coach at St. Bonaventure

Longtime Longwood Associate Women’s Soccer Coach Steve Brdarski is now the women’s soccer head coach at St. Bonaventure University, it was announced last week. SBU made the announcement last Monday.

He has served in the associate head coach role since 2008, working with 20th-year head coach Todd Dyer. He has been at Longwood since 2004.

Dyer said Tuesday, “After our fall season he [Brdarski] told me he'd be applying for some head coaching jobs. St. Bonnie was on that list and things started unfolding over the holiday break and into the start of the spring semester.” Brdarski replaces Manoj Khettry at SBU, who was the head coach there for seven years before resigning in early January.

Dyer added that it was a decision that the two close friends talked about for some time, saying, “We talk about everything and in this case I did a lot of listening. If the opportunity to direct his own program presented itself he was going to give it serious consideration and I supported that.

“More than anything I'll miss the day to day interaction with a person that has been so close to me, my family and the women's soccer program. He and his family now begin a new journey and we at Longwood have the opportunity to do the same. It's a win-win scenario for everyone involved and I'm certain we're all very excited to move forward.”

Brdarski has previous head coaching experience, leading the men’s program at his alma mater, Pfeiffer University, from 2001-03. Brdarski took that role fresh out of college and improved the Falcons’ record by five games in the 2002 season.

He also spearheaded the efforts at Longwood to create the Greatest Athletics March Ever (GAME) and “The Scarf,” two ubiquitous examples of support of the women’s soccer program and indeed the athletics department as a whole.

Brdarski has already started his coaching duties at St. Bonaventure, and was not available for comment at press time.

Dyer says that the search for a new assistant coach has already begun and will last “as long as it takes to find the right person for the job. Hopefully we have an idea who that is before the end of the semester.”