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Amanda Horazdovsky George Padjen Brady Starkey |
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Title: Head Coach Phone: 651-603-6173 Email: starkey@csp.edu |
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Brady Starkey enters his fifth season on the bench for Concordia as the school's all-time winningest coach in just four seasons, guiding the Bears to national prominence. His squad's own the top four seasons in school history, winning nearly 90-percent of their matches and more than 30-matches a season four-straight years. They won a school-record and NCAA-high 36 matches in 2006. In four seasons as Concordia's head coach, the Bears have gone 130-15 (.889), won four NSIC regular-season titles, three NSIC tournament titles, two NCAA North Central Region titles and were the NCAA National runner-ups in 2003. Starkey's squads include twelve AVCA all-Americans, all of which were named to the North Central Region's first team, and had 22 players represented on the NSIC all-conference first team, including the 2004 NSIC Player of the Year, Joy Wubben and the 2005 and 2006 NSIC Player of the Year, Jessica Lucia. He has had five AVCA first team all-Americans in Joy Wubben, Jessica Lucia (2), Kelsey Kyro and Cailin Terhaar. The Bears success on the court is equaled by their success in the classroom. Concordia has been recognized each of the last four seasons by earning the AVCA Team Academic Award for maintaining a team grade point average of 3.3 or better. The 2006 squad boasted a 3.70 team gpa. He has had four ESPN The Magazine Academic all-Americans and 35 NSIC all-Academic winners. Starkey was named AVCA North Central Region Coach of the Year in 2003 and 2005. He has earned three NSIC Coach of the Year honors going 61-1 in NSIC regular-season play. They have the fourth-longest winning streak against conference opponents, having won 64 straight matches against NSIC foes, dating back to Oct. 31, 2004. Prior to becoming head coach, Starkey played an instrumental role in rebuilding the program having served as the Bears assistant coach for three seasons. In 1999, the Golden Bears were a dismal 0-18, but turned that around to the tune of a 24-9 record in 2002, including the school's first-ever national ranking. Before coming to Concordia, Starkey spent five seasons as an assistant coach at St. Thomas. While at St. Thomas, the Tommies finished in the top four in the MIAC and won the conference title in 1999. During the 1998 season, Starkey had co-head coaching responsibilities with his wife Penny. Starkey began his coaching career in 1992 as an assistant coach at Minnetonka High School, where he worked with the B-squad and the junior varsity. Starkey has worked coaching the 17-Open team of the Minnesota One Junior Olympics club since 2002. Currently he coaches the 18’s team at Minnesota Select. Starkey earned his undergraduate degree in History from Metropolitan State University in 2002. He is married to Penny Starkey and they are the parents of two daughters, Teagan Shea and Kayli Jade.
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