Chase Wileman

Head Coach

Chase Wileman is in his third season as the Friends of Brown Men’s Soccer Head Coaching Chair in 2024. Wileman, the seventh head coach in program history, has 13 years of NCAA Division I coaching experience, including nine as a top assistant. His final stop before Brown was as the Associate Head Coach at the University of Kentucky from 2018-2021.

In his second season at Brown in 2023, Wileman and the Bears defied expectations after being picked seventh in the Ivy League preseason poll, finishing the regular season unbeaten over their final 12 matches to finish 5-5-8 overall, including an undefeated run through Ivy play at 2-0-5. The Bears qualified for the Ivy League Tournament as the No. 4 seed and advanced to the league championship match. Brown allowed just one goal in Ivy League regular season matches, tied for the fewest in league history with the 1986 Yale squad.

During his first season on College Hill in 2022, Wileman guided the Bears to an 8-6-3 record, which included signature wins at Providence and Boston College. Wileman also brought in the 30th ranked recruiting class to Brown in his first full recruiting season.

Wileman started at Kentucky in 2014 as an assistant coach and was promoted to associate head coach before the 2018 season. In his eight seasons, Wileman helped lead the Wildcats to a 100-36-22 overall record and seven NCAA Tournament appearances.

While Wileman was at Kentucky, the Wildcats won two Conference USA Regular Season Championships (2015, 2018) and two Conference USA Tournament Championships (2018, 2021). In 2018, Kentucky reached the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament, the best showing in program history. The Wildcats also advanced to the Sweet 16 in both the 2020 and 2021 seasons.

Under Wileman’s tutelage, Kentucky saw six players named All-Americans, four tabbed as Conference USA Player of the Year, and four selected in the Major League Soccer SuperDraft.

Wileman is no stranger to the Ivy League as prior to Kentucky, he spent three seasons (2011-13) as an assistant coach at Dartmouth. With the Big Green, Wileman served as the lead recruiter for the class that won four straight Ivy League Titles from 2014-17.

Dartmouth won the Ivy League Championship in 2011, earning Wileman and the Big Green a berth into the NCAA Tournament.

Wileman also has coaching experience at the North Texas Olympic Development Program where he served as a staff coach in 2011 and with FC Dallas as a camp and clinic instructor from 2007-09.

Prior to his coaching days, Wileman was a four-year member of the men’s soccer team at Southern Methodist University where he made four NCAA Tournament appearances from 2003-06, advancing to the 2005 College Cup. SMU won three regular season conference championships and three conference tournament championships with Wileman on the roster. He served as a team captain in 2006 and was named to the Conference USA First Team and the NSCAA All-Midwest First Team. He was selected in the 2007 Major League Soccer Supplemental Draft by FC Dallas for whom he made numerous appearances from 2007-09.

Wileman earned his bachelor’s degree in markets and culture from SMU in 2007.

A native of Grand Prairie, Texas, Wileman and his wife Chelsea currently reside in Cranston, R.I.