Jaroslaw Zawislan

Zawislan attended Clemson University, where he played on the men’s soccer team from 1990 to 1993. A four year starter,in his 88 games with the Tigers, he was a three-time All-Atlantic Coast Conference and four-time All-South region selection, in addition to being named the most valuable player of the 1993 ACC tournament. He holds school Clemson school records for career saves (446), single-season saves (134), career wins by a goalkeeper (58) and career starts (88). He was also named an Academic All-American.He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Clemson in 1993 and bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Toronto in 1999. He played five seasons of professional soccer before embarking on a college coaching career for more than 25 years.

In 1999, Zawislan was hired by Creighton University as an assistant coach with the men’s soccer team. When Creighton head coach, Bret Simon moved to Stanford University, Zawislan followed him in February 2001 where they won a national championship that same year. In 2002, he moved to Syracuse University where he served as an assistant coach for seven seasons before being named the head men’s soccer coach at Cornell University in 2009. He spent 6 seasons at Cornell and brought home the most recent Ivy League Title in 2012. He left in 2015 and went back to the Syracuse area to coach at Lemoyne until 2025.