{"id":20080,"date":"2019-11-18T15:29:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T20:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportswtbu.com\/?p=20080"},"modified":"2020-01-09T17:17:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T22:17:59","slug":"mens-soccer-head-coach-neil-roberts-calls-it-a-career-after-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2019\/11\/18\/mens-soccer-head-coach-neil-roberts-calls-it-a-career-after-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Soccer: Head coach Neil Roberts calls it a career after 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 40 years with the BU Men&#8217;s Soccer program, head coach Neil Roberts announced on Monday that he will be retiring from the Terrier technical area. Roberts spent 35 years as the team&#8217;s head coach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m privileged to have spent my entire coaching career at Boston University,&#8221; said Roberts in an article released by BU Athletics. &#8220;I will miss my interactions with the students and their families but now look forward to the next chapter in my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In his time at BU, Roberts took his team to 14 national tournaments, winning seven Patriot league tournaments and 12 regular season conference titles. Over his tenure, he coached 12 All-Americans, 93 all-region players, 134 all-conference award-winners, and ten academic All-American honorees. Roberts himself was recognized with 17 coaching awards.<\/p>\n<p>According to BU director of athletics Drew Marrochello, &#8220;[Roberts] was a mentor to many staff members and his personality will be greatly missed around the department.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured Image by Steve McLaughlin.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 40 years with the BU Men&#8217;s Soccer program, head coach Neil Roberts announced on Monday that he will be retiring from the Terrier technical area. Roberts spent 35 years as the team&#8217;s head coach. &#8220;I&#8217;m privileged to have spent my entire coaching career at Boston University,&#8221; said Roberts in an article released by BU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1030],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21194,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20080\/revisions\/21194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}