Coach Profile
Jeremy Sperring
Jeremy Spering enters his 15th season as the head coach of the Shippensburg University men’s soccer program in 2022.
During his tenure as the Raider head coach, Spering has directed SU men’s soccer to numerous milestones – including school records for single-season wins, most consecutive victories, longest undefeated streak, single-season goals, and the most all-conference selections in a single season.
Since the start of the 2010 campaign, Spering has directed SU to 77 victories – including nine or more victories in four seasons. The Raiders have also qualified for three PSAC Tournaments and made two NCAA Tournament appearances.
Spering, the 2010 PSAC Men’s Soccer Coach of the Year and NSCAA/Mondo Atlantic Region Coach of the Year, guided the Raiders to back-to-back NCAA tournament appearances in 2010 and 2011 – the first two such berths in school history.
According to the NCAA record books, Shippensburg’s improvement from 2009 to 2010 is the sixth-best in Division II history – a 10-game margin – and ties the greatest single-season turnaround by a PSAC program. SU entered the 2010 season picked 10th out of 10 teams in the preseason coaches poll. Five of its players achieved All-PSAC recognition, the most for an SU squad since 2003.
Before arriving at Shippensburg, Spering spent four years as an assistant coach at two different institutions. In 2007, Spering was the assistant women’s soccer coach at Gettysburg College, helping guide the Bullets to a 6-4 conference record and an appearance in the Centennial Conference Tournament semifinals.
Spering graduated from Slippery Rock in 2002 with a bachelor’s degree in exercise science. He was a two-year starter and two-year letter winner on The Rock men’s soccer team after lettering at Elmira College in 1997 and 1998. He also trained with the Bolton Wanderers English Soccer Club in 1994 and the New Jersey Stallions professional soccer team from 1995-96.
A native of Frenchtown, N.J., Spering earned all-state and all-conference honors at Delaware Valley Regional High School where he was captain of the soccer team and participated in the Olympic Development Program.