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Colm McFeely

Title:

Head Coach

Email:

cmcfeely@oxy.edu

Phone:

323 259 2931


 

Fifth year head coach Colm McFeely has a long history with the Tiger soccer program, having joined Occidental as an assistant coach in 1992.

His 17-year playing career included around 500 competitive games in his native Ireland, Australia, and Hong Kong. He has won an Irish Division I league championship medal, played in the European Champions' Cup Competition, and was a Hong Kong All-League selection from 1974-80.

Holder of a FIFA coaching license, McFeely also coached for more than 10 years in Hong Kong, where he founded the Hong Kong Harps Football Club. As player/coach, he led the Harps from Division 3 to Division I status in three years, the only Hong Kong coach ever to achieve that feat.

McFeely has been on the CYSA-S Olympic Development Program (ODP) coaching staff for almost 10 years and helped coach the 2000 U16 Boys and the 2001 U18 Boys to ODP National Championship victories. A number of these players went on to represent the USA at various national team levels. McFeely also
coached the Notre Dame HS boys program for 10 years and in 1993 was selected NSCAA/UMBRO State Coach of the Year for California. He is also involved in Southern California youth soccer as Co-Technical Director of Tigers Soccer Club.