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 A three-time NCAA Division II
All-American, a member of an NCAA Division II National Championship
squad and a former player on the Nigerian National team, Totty O. Totty
begins his 12th season as head coach of the Clayton State University
women’s soccer program. With longest tenure of any head coach in the
Peach Belt Conference, Totty is without a doubt the "Dean" of PBC head
coaches for women’s soccer.
Over the last four seasons, Clayton State has enjoyed its best success
in women’s soccer under Totty. The Lakers have posted an impressive
48-36-7 record in that time period.
During the 2007 season, the Lakers overcame a rash of injuries and a 1-6
start to finish 10-8 overall and third place in the Peach Belt
Conference. In fact, Clayton State finished the regular
season with six straight victories and eight
victories in its final nine games. Six of those victories were shutouts.
The Lakers went a remarkable 15-2-3 in the the 2005 season - the best
season in program history - sweeping both the Peach Belt regular season
and tournament championships. In addition, Clayton State advanced to the
NCAA Division II National Tournament for a second straight season.
The Clayton State program turned the corner in 2004 as Totty led the
squad to a 13-6-1 record, its first appearance in the NCAA Division II
National Tournament and a runner-up finish in the Peach Belt Conference
Tournament. Arguably the
biggest win in school history was in the 2004 season, as the Lakers
toppled the defending NCAA Division II national champion - Kennesaw
State.
Totty took over the women’s program at Clayton State in the summer of
1998, inheriting a Laker program that was only 13-32-1 in its first
three seasons of intercollegiate women’s soccer. After three seasons of
building the program’s base, Totty sparked Clayton State to its first
back-to-back winning seasons with marks of 11-7 in 2001 and 11-4-4 in
2002.
During that 2002 season, the Lakers upset nationally-ranked teams
Francis Marion and North Florida, marking the first time in program
history that Clayton State defeated a nationally-ranked team.
Overall, Totty has posted a 95-91-14 mark at Clayton State, making him
the winningest head coach in women’s soccer at Clayton State. With five
more victories, Totty will become the first coach in the history of Laker women’s soccer to reach 100 victories at Clayton State.
In
addition, he’s coached the first two All-Americans in the history of Laker women’s soccer - Nkiru Okosieme and Olaitan Yusuf - plus seven
All-Region selections, 12 All-Peach Belt Conference players and two
Peach Belt Conference Player of Year and Freshman of the Year winners.
Totty, a three-time All-America and four-time All-New England Athletic
Conference selection at New Hampshire College (now University of
Southern New Hampshire), led the Penmen to the NCAA Division II national
championship in 1989 under former Clayton State men’s head coach John
Rootes. He went on to play for the Nigerian National Team and played in
Nigeria’s qualifying matches for the 1990 World Cup.
Totty received the honor of being inducted into the New Hampshire
College Athletic Hall of Fame in 2000.
Prior to his arrival at Clayton State, Totty served as Director of
Coaching for the Amherst (N.H.) Soccer Club for two years and was an
eight-year veteran of the John Rootes Soccer School at New Hampshire
College. He was also an assistant coach for the New Hampshire College
women’s team for three seasons, helping lead New Hampshire to a 13-5-2
mark in 1996 with the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference
championship and a #23 ranking in the final Division II Top 25 poll.
Totty, who holds a United States Soccer Federation "A" License, plus a
NSCAA Premier Diploma and a NSCAA National Goalkeeper Coaching Diploma,
received a bachelor’s degree in business communication in 1993 and a
master’s degree in international business in 1995 from Southern New
Hampshire. |
