Hempstead, N.Y. – Hofstra Women's Soccer Associate Head Coach
Tobias Bischof capped an impressive summer season by leading the club-level Massapequa Arsenal to the McGuire Cup as the national champion in the Boys Under-19 division at the U.S. Youth Soccer Nationals in Tulsa, Oklahoma over the weekend.
Bischof led the Arsenal to a 3-1 win over Scott Gallagher in the championship game. It marked the first time in 56 years a team from Eastern New York has won the McGuire Cup. The Long Island Junior Soccer League program beat the St. Louis-based Scott Gallagher squad, which is a three-time national champion.
Massapequa reached the national finals following a 2-1 win over Arizona's Scottsdale 96 Blackhawks Burke and a 2-0 win over Georgia's GSA 96 Premier. Massapequa went 5-0 and held an 18-0 goals advantage in the Regionals at West Virginia.
Bischof is entering his fifth season on Hofstra Head Coach
Simon Riddiough's staff in 2015 and is first as an associate head coach after spending the previous four years as an assistant. Since arriving on campus in 2011, Hofstra has compiled a 44-30-6 record and has notched a winning season in every campaign. Under his tutelage,
Leah Galton has won back-to-back CAA Player of the Year awards from 2013-14 and
Sam Scolarici set program records for goals and assists. He has helped the Pride win the 2012 Colonial Athletic Association championship and earn two appearances in the CAA Tournament finals.
A native of Winterstein, Germany, Bischof played soccer in his native country after graduating from high school. In 1997 he enrolled at Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany, where he earned a master's degree in sports science, finishing in the top-10 percent of his class. He also coached youth soccer in Germany, primarily with 16-17 year olds, before coming to the United States.
The Under-19 Boys National Championship, the oldest of the 14 U.S. Youth Soccer championships, has been played annually since 1935, except during World War II. Officially known as the United States Soccer Federation National Junior Challenge Cup, the competition was renamed the James P. McGuire Junior Champion Cup in 1975, after the late United States Soccer Federation President. It is the oldest trophy in youth sports.
