Lewis Dunne

Lewis Dunne joined the IUPUI men's soccer staff in April 2022 as the program's top assistant. He joins the Jaguars after spending two seasons at Notre Dame (Ohio) College where he helped the Falcons to a 16-8-2 record and a 79-31 scoring margin over that span. In 2021, six Falcons earned All-Conference honors and four were named All-Region. Two individuals earned Academic All-District honors as well.

Dunne began his coaching career at Lake Erie College as a graduate assistant in 2017 and was later promoted to assistant coach in 2019. LEC climbed from five wins in 2017 to 18 victories in the 2019 campaign. That squad climbed as high as No. 4 in the country, became the GMAC regular season champs and qualified for the NCAA Division II Tournament.

Dunne was an outstanding player at Urbana University, earning NSCAA First Team All-American, D2CCA All-Atlantic Region First Team and All-MEC First Team honors as a senior in 2016. In 2015, he was named D2CCA All-Atlantic Region First Team, All-MEC Second Team and OSCA All-Ohio First Team.

Following his college career, Dunne captained the Dayton Dutch Lions in the Premier Development League in 2016. He then played for Cleveland SC in the NPSL in 2018. He was later hired as assistant coach of Cleveland SC in 2019, winning the Rustbelt Conference and the Midwest Regional Championship before losing to Miami SC, the eventual national champions, in the national semifinal. The following season, Dunne was hired as the head coach of Cleveland SC in the NPSL. The team became the 2021 Rustbelt Champions and Midwest Regional Champions, before losing in the national semifinal to Denton Diablo, the eventual national champions. Cleveland SC had a record of 11-1-2, earning Rustbelt Conference Coach of the Year for 2021.

Dunne is a native of Ellsmere Port, England. He graduated from Urbana with a bachelor's degree in sports management and earned a master's degree in business administration from Lake Erie in 2019.