June 8, 2001

NOTRE DAME, Ind. — Notre Dame men’s soccer coach Bobby Clark has announced the completion of his coaching staff for the 2001 season. Brian Wiese, an assistant coach at Stanford from 1996-2000, and Mike Avery, an assistant on the Irish staff a year ago, will serve as Clark’s assistant coaches for the upcoming campaign.

Wiese spent five seasons alongside Clark at Stanford and worked primarily with the team’s goalkeepers. He helped build the Cardinal defense into one of the top units in the country as Stanford compiled a 71-21-12 record over five campaigns. Last season, Stanford ranked first in goals against average (0.44) and shutout percentage (.727), while Cardinal All-American goalkeeper Adam Zapala was first nationally with a 0.45 goals against average. During the 1998 campaign in which Stanford advanced to the national championship game and finished second nationally in the rankings, Stanford posted nine shutouts and registered a 0.88 goals against average.

Prior to joining the Stanford staff, Wiese enjoyed a very successful collegiate career as a goalkeeper at Dartmouth. He played for three seasons for Clark at the Hanover, N.H., school. From 1991-94, the Albuquerqe, New Mexico, native was a three-year starter and posted 15 career shutouts. As a sophomore, he led the Big Green to the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament as Dartmouth finished with an 11-5-2 record. A three-time All-Ivy League honoree, he was selected as team MVP in 1993 and served as co-captain of the 1994 squad. In addition, he was an Academic All-Ivy League selection in both his junior and senior seasons.

Following his senior season, Wiese took the winter term off at Dartmouth to play in Africa for the Bulawayo Highlanders before graduating in `’95 with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. Following graduation, he moved to San Diego to coach the Del Mar Tsunami Club team before taking the assistant coaching position at Stanford.

Wiese received his master’s degree in product design from Stanford in 1998. Born June 6, 1973, he and his wife Becky, also a Dartmouth graduate and a member of the school’s track team, are expecting their first child this summer.

Avery will begin his second soccer campaign as an assistant coach along the Irish sidelines. He came to Notre Dame in March of 2000 following three seasons as head men’s soccer coach at Cal State University San Bernardino. In addition to his duties with the men’s program, he served as head coach of the women’s program for 1998 and 1999.

In three seasons as men’s coach at Cal State, Avery led the Coyote program through a successful rebuilding campaign. Avery’s ’99 tam continued the trend of improving each year under his direction by finishing with a record of 8-11-1. In six seasons as a head men’s coach, Avery has compiled an overall record of 62-58-5 (.516).

Avery began his coaching career at Bethel College in Mishawaka, Ind., in 1994 when the native of San Jose, Calif., native transformed that program into one of the top small college NAIA men’s soccer teams. In his final season at the school in 1996, he led a team which had won just three games prior to his arrival to a 17-4-1 mark as the Pilots won the school’s first-ever Mid-Central Conference crown. In three seasons at Bethel, his teams posted an overall 43-21-2 ledger. In Avery’s first campaign, the Pilots compiled a 10-9-1 record and then improved that by six wins the following season as they finished with a 16-8-0 mark. His efforts earned him conference coach-of-the-year honors in both ’95 and ’96 as well as Great Lakes Region coach-of-the-year accolades.

Avery played from 1986-89 at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, Calif., where he was a two-time All-American and four-time all-conference and All-Far West standout for the NAIA school which made national tournament appearances during his four seasons. In his senior season, he served as team captain on a squad which advanced to the national semifinals.

Born Sept. 19, 1968, he received his bachelor’s degree in physical education in 1990, and following graduation, played for several professional teams both in the United States and abroad.

Avery, whose wife Carin is the assistant women’s volleyball coach at Valparaiso University, received his master’s degree in kinesiology from Midwestern State in 1994.