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JOEL
BANCROFT
Head Coach
Second Season
(Fourth overall)
Office: 207.893.7662
Email: jbancroft@sjcme.edu
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Joel Bancroft returns for his second season as the Monks’ clipboard
carrier in 2009.
In his first season, Bancroft guided the Royal Blue to a 12-7-3 record
and a corresponding .632 winning percentage, a new program high. The
Monks, with a 6-2-1 GNAC record, earned the #3 seed in the conference
tournament and defeated both #6 Johnson & Wales and #2 Lasell to
advance to the league title tilt against top-seeded Norwich. The SJC
side was the only league team to take a point away from Norwich in 2008,
as the Monks played the regionally-ranked Cadets to a 1-1 stalemate
on September 23rd. St. Joe’s fell in the championship in a hard-fought
2-1 defeat, but the Monks were rewarded with the program’s first
ECAC Tournament berth as the #6 seed. The Royal Blue fought valiantly
against third-seeded Coast Guard Academy in the ECAC opener, but lost
1-0 in overtime to the eventual tournament champs.
Aside from setting a new team record for winning percentage, Bancroft’s
defensive philosophy helped put the 2008 team atop the program’s
all-time list for longest undefeated streak (eight games), consecutive
shutouts (four), total shutouts (10), and fewest goals allowed (20).
St. Joe’s led the GNAC in goals-against average (.087), and tied
for the lead in both fewest goals allowed and shutouts. Six of his players
garnered All-Conference honors, including First Team honoree Will Pike
’10 (Gorham, ME).
Prior to the 2007 season Bancroft was tabbed as the Co-Head Coach after
serving as an assistant coach in 2006. Coach Bancroft also spent a year
as an assistant at the University of New England in 2005.
A graduate of Westbrook High School where he was a team captain and
received all-league honors, Bancroft went on to play at the collegiate
level for University of Southern Maine. While there he was named as
a team captain and received All-Little East honors. He has since played
club soccer with the Cumberland United side, where he has served as
a captain and been a part of five state championships.
Bancroft is a graduate of the University of Southern Maine with a degree
in Liberal Arts. He currently resides in Portland with his wife, Lynn,
and their German shepherds, Kaiser and Raina.
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JEFF
YAEGER '04
Assistant Coach
Third Season
(Fifth overall)
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Jeff Yaeger, a native of Presque Isle, Maine, graduated from Saint
Joseph's College in 2004. He was the starting goalkeeper for three years,
including 2000 when the Monks won the Maine Atheltic Conference Championship.
Jeff was named the Saint Joseph's College Male Athlete of the Year in
2004 after helping the Monks post a program-best 12 wins in the fall.
After he graduated from SJC in 2004 with degree in Finance, Yaeger moved
to Colorado to spend a year training with the Colorado Springs Blizzard
of the Player Development League.
Yaeger began his coaching career in 2005 as a volunteer assistant coach
for the St. Joe's men's program in 2005. He served an assistant for
the women's program in '06 and oversaw the goalkeepers for both men's
and women's teams in 2007. This season he will focus solely on his position
as an assistant for the men's program.
Yaeger holds both E and D licenses from US Youth Soccer as well as State
Coaching and State Goalkeeping Diplomas from the National Soccer Coaches
Association of America. He has served as the assistant coach of the
Odyssey U-14 boys team and is also the head of goalkeeper training for
the club.
Coach Yaeger currently works as an underwriter for The Standard Insurance
Company in South Portland and lives in Windham with his wife Michelle
and their four month-old son, Lucas.
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