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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 13th 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.
During this time, Totty has become the winningest head coach ever in
women’s soccer at Clayton State. He enters the 2010 season with an
overall mark of 99-101-15. Overall, he has paced the Laker women to two
NCAA Division II National Tournament appearances, one Peach Belt
Conference regular season championship and one Peach Belt Conference
Tournament championship. With his next victory, Totty will reach the
milestone of 100 victories in women’s soccer at Clayton State.
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 with a thrilling 2-1 overtime victory over
Columbus State in the PBC Tournament championship game. 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. The Lakers
also advanced to the Peach Belt Conference Tournament championship game
for the first time in program history.
In addition, Totty coached the first two All-Americans in the history of
Laker women’s soccer - Nkiru Okosieme and Olaitan Yusuf - plus eight
All-Region selections, 13 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.
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