Weber State University Athletics
Women's Soccer
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- Assistant Coach
Tom VudhiVadhana will serve as the Wildcats' volunteer assistant coach after retiring in January from his assistant coach position.
Tom will enter his 17th season with progam, spending nine seasons as an assistant coach on the Wildcat staff after spending eight years as co-head coach of the team with Lynn Kofoed. Tom has been with the program since its inception in 1996.
As co-head coaches, the duo of Kofoed and VudhiVadhana compiled a 72-68-10 record, three Big Sky regular season championships and one Big Sky postseason championship.
The pair started at WSU for the school’s inaugural season of soccer in 1996 with a group composed mostly of former WSU club soccer players and produced an impressive 7-7-2 first-year record. Over the next few years, the two raised the bar for Weber State soccer, creating a program that has been one of the most dominant programs in the Big Sky Conference nearly every year. During the pair’s tenure, WSU recorded a Big Sky record of 29-15-1 (.659 winning percentage).
In the program’s sophomore season, Tom and Lynn coached the 1997 team to a nine-game improvement and a second place finish at the first-ever Big Sky Championship. One year later they were the conference regular season champions and defeated the defending conference champion Montana Grizzlies in a 2-1 double overtime thriller for the school’s first Big Sky Championship.
In 2001, the Wildcats added another regular season title to the coaches’ list of accomplishments, going 6-0-0 in Big Sky play, but were upset in the conference championship game by Idaho State. In 2003, the Wildcats gave up only a single goal in conference play as they went 4-1-1 and earned another Big Sky regular season title. The team fell in the Big Sky semi-finals 1-0 to Montana.
Kofoed and VudhiVadhana were awarded their third Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year award in 2003. The duo also won the honor in back-to-back years in 1997 and 1998.
Before being named co-head coach at Weber State, Coach VudhiVadhana was WSU’s women’s soccer club head coach from 1993 to 1996 and compiled a three-year record of 63-11-1. In 1993, his club placed third in regionals and went on the next year to win the National Club Soccer Association title. In 1995, his club won the regional title and placed third at nationals.
VudhiVadhana also coached the men’s soccer club team at Weber State from 1986-1991. He was the boys soccer coach at Bonneville High School in Ogden for 10 years winning the Region 1 Championship six times, with four of those seasons going undefeated in regional play. The Lakers were State runners-up twice in that period. He has been associated with AYSO soccer for 20 plus years as a coach and referee.
A native of Bangkok, Thailand, VudhiVadhana’s Christian College High School team won the Thailand national championship in 1963.
VudhiVadhana received an A.S. degree from Grossman College in San Diego in 1970 and attended Weber State from 1972-74. He is the father of four girls. His daughter, Deborah, played for the Wildcats in 2000-2001.
