Elite 300 Staff

Rudy Fuller

Rudy FullerFull Bio

Rudy Fuller is currently the Head Coach of the University of Pennsylvania. In his fourteen seasons, Fuller has completely transformed the program into one of the elite soccer programs in the country. In 2010, Penn compiled a 13-6-0 record and finished second in the Ivy League with a 5-2-0 record. The 2010 Penn squad included five former Elite 300 All-Star selections. Fuller has been named the Philadelphia Soccer Seven Coach of the Year in four of the past six seasons.  He has also served as an assistant coach with the U.S. U-15 National Team.

Matt Smith

Matt Smith

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Matt Smith is ranked as one of the top 10 coaches in NCAA history by winning percentage. He currently works closely with Under Armour and the Tottenham Hotspurs as a Director for the Soccer Association of Columbia. Matt is one of a few US coaches that has led teams to National Championship games at both the youth and college level. Matt is well known in the soccer world for his very honest and correct assessment of potential college players. He is an original founder of the Elite 300 Soccer Academy and serves as the Elite 300 College-to-Player Coordinator which has helped place 300+ players into US colleges.

Keith Tabatznik

Keith TabatznikFull Bio

Keith Tabatznik, now President of ktsoccerworld.com – an educational website for players and coaches – guided Georgetown University soccer to national prominence during 22 years as head coach. Finishing with 220 wins under his belt, Tabatznik is Georgetown’s all-time winningest soccer coach and ended amongst the top 35 active collegiate coaches in wins.

Rob Vartughian

Rob VartughianFull Bio

After helping the University of Maryland men’s soccer team to two NCAA national championships, Rob Vartughian now serves as Assistant Coach/Goalkeeper Coordinator for Philadelphia Union. In his time with Maryland, the versatile Vartughian was instrumental not only in working with the keepers, but with all aspects of the program.

Eric Wagner

Eric WagnerFull Bio

 In 25 years coaching at the college level, Wagner has earned a reputation for developing talented young soccer players and turning teams into nationally competitive programs. Emphasizing intelligent, creative attacking play, an honest work ethic, and hard-nosed, disciplined defending, Wagner’s team had a +36 goal differential in ’10, the best in program history. In the past ten seasons, the Garnet have had 38 All-Centennial Conference players, 66 Academic All-Conference selections, 17 Regional All-Americans, five Academic All-Americans, five All-American selections and two players sign professional soccer contracts (Morgan Langley ’11 and Ladule Lako Lo Sarah ’09).