Men's Soccer
Coaching Staff
Travers Evans
Head Coach

Travers Evans comes to Castine after an eleven year stint at the University of Maine. He spent the past seven years as the head coach of the men's soccer program. While at the University of Maine, he lead his 2003 men's soccer team to their first post season appearance since 1993, and the most wins in almost a decade. For his efforts that season he was named the America East conference Coach of the Year. Prior to being hired as the head men's soccer coach, Evans served as the Assistant Director of Soccer Operations for one season and served as the Assistant Men's Soccer Coach for three seasons.

Evans has been very active in the youth soccer scene in Maine as well. He is the co-founder, former president, and current coach in the Blackbear United Football Club. Blackbear United is a youth soccer program that services approximately 300 players in the greater Bangor area. He also served as a coach in the Olympic Development program in Maine for five seasons, most recently coaching the 1987 boys. Evans has also served as a guest lecturer at the Maine AGM in both 1998 and 2006. He earned his NSCAA National Coaching Diploma in 1997.

Prior to the beginning of his coaching career Evans played collegiately at Northeastern University. Evans played for New Hampshire coaching legend Jim Tufts at Exeter High School for two seasons, and for two seasons under the tutelage of longtime Portland High School coach Rocco Frenzilli. He was a member of the New Hampshire Olympic Development Program, and was named to the Foster's Daily Democrat dream team in 1989. Evans earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Biology from the University of Maine in 1997.

Coach Evans lives in Bangor with his wife Johanna and their two children, son Riley 4 and daughter Taylor 2. The couple is expecting the birth of their third child in August of 2007.

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