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Head Coach
Larry Povia
Men's Soccer
First Year
8/30/10
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Larry
Povia, MCCC's new head coach for men's soccer, knows a lot
about the game - and about the Mercer program. Povia has served
as the Vikings' assistant coach and goalkeeping coach since
1986. He welcomes the opportunity to pick up the reins from
long-time coach Charlie Inverso, who resigned at the end of
the 2009 season after 24 seasons.
Under Inverso and Povia, the Vikings earned a record of 434-46-14
and won five National Junior College Athletic Association
titles (of the program's eight championships). Povia helped
the Vikings advance to the NJCAA Final Four 12 times and has
trained a long list of All-Region and All-American players.
He was inducted into the NJCAA Hall of Fame in 2008, one of
only two assistant coaches ever to be selected.
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Povia
was an original member of the Mercer National Tournament Association,
a volunteer group that worked with the MCCC Athletics Department
under the direction of Al Leister to host the NJCAA National Tournament
on the college's campus from 1982 to 1990.
A soccer player since the age of 10, Povia was a goalkeeper at Steinert
High School and then Rider University, where he earned his B.S.
in Commerce in 1977. He is an information technology manager for
the State of New Jersey.
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