Soccer
Michael Fragale
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia soccer coach Wealthy Rodriguez has named Dusty Rutledge because the chief of employees of the Mountaineer soccer program.
At West Virginia, Rutledge will implement strategic planning and staffing for the soccer workplace and oversee the areas of recruiting, operations, scouting and workplace administrative employees. He may even function considered one of soccer’s liaisons to numerous items within the Athletics Division together with senior administration, advertising and marketing, digital media, growth, communications, artistic and student-athlete enhancement.
Moreover, Rutledge will direct this system’s scholar employment program, present budgetary discretion and help Rodriguez and employees in selling the model of West Virginia soccer.
Rutledge involves West Virginia from Jacksonville State, the place he served as chief of employees for Rodriguez since 2021. Rutledge got here to JSU from Louisiana-Monroe, the place he additionally held the identical place.
He has contributed to the expansion and success of a number of collegiate packages throughout his lengthy and distinguished profession with stops at Ole Miss, Arizona, Michigan and a earlier seven-year stint at West Virginia from 2001-07.
In between soccer positions, he frolicked as facility supervisor and director of gross sales of Barwis Coaching Strategies, which is a holistic athletic and neurological coaching facility in Michigan. Moreover, he labored with Indiana soccer from 1997-2000 and has huge expertise teaching not solely highschool soccer, however at completely different ranges of school soccer.
The ties between Rutledge and Rodriguez return greater than 35 years. Rutledge was the defensive position coach and particular groups coordinator underneath Rodriguez for 3 seasons at Division II Glenville State (1994-96), and was part of the Pioneers’ three West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Convention (WVIAC) titles.
Initially from Rockford, Ohio, Rutledge graduated from Fairmont State in 1991 with a bachelor’s diploma and coached the offensive line for the Combating Falcons from 1988-93. In three of his years at Fairmont, he additionally performed and was a member of the lively roster. To today, he stays considered one of school soccer’s final player-coaches.
