Nate Daligcon

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Nate Daligcon
Personal information
Full name Nathan Daligcon
Date of birth (1974-08-09) August 9, 1974 (age 49)
Place of birth Seattle, Washington, USA
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Position(s) Midfielder
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1992–1995 Seattle Pacific Falcons
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1996–1997 Seattle Sounders 16 (1)
1997–2001 Rochester Rhinos 106 (16)
2002 Seattle Sounders 24 (0)
Total146(17)
Managerial career
2009–2012 Seattle Pacific Falcons (asst.)
2013 Seattle Redhawks (asst.)
2014–2022 Seattle Redhawks (associate head coach)
2023– Seattle Redhawks
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nathan "Nate" Daligcon is a retired American soccer midfielder who played professionally in the A-League. Over his eight-year professional career, Daligcon won four league and one U.S. Open Cup titles.

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Early life

In 1992, Daligcon graduated from Highline High School.[ citation needed ]

Collegiate career

He attended Seattle Pacific University, playing on the men's soccer team from 1992 to 1995. In 1993, Daligcon and his team mates won the NCAA Men's Division II Soccer Championship. [1] He was a 1994 Second Team and a 1995 First Team Division II All American. [1] He graduated in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in marketing. [2]

Professional

On March 4, 1996, the Tampa Bay Mutiny selected Daligcon in the third round (twenty-fourth overall) of the 1996 MLS College Draft. The Mutiny released him late in the pre-season. He then signed with the Seattle Sounders of the A-League. [3] That season, he played in the A-League championship game as the Sounders defeated the Rochester Rhinos. Daligcon returned to the Sounders in 1997, but played only four games that season before being traded, along with Justin Stoddard, to the Rhinos in exchange for Henry Gutierrez.

Dalgicon won three league (1998, 2000, and 2001) and one U.S. Open Cup (1999) championship in five seasons with the Rhinos. [4]

In 2003, he returned to the Sounders for a final season before retiring.

In 2017, Daligcon was inducted into the Rhinos Hall of Fame. [4]

Coaching career

In 2009, Daligcon became an assistant coach for the Seattle Pacific University Falcons men's soccer team, eventually becoming lead assistant coach before leaving after the 2012 season. [2] [5] [6]

Prior to the 2013 season, Daligcon joined the coaching staff for the Seattle University Redhawks men's soccer team as an assistant coach. [7] In July 2014, Daligcon was promoted to associate head coach of the Red Hawks under head coach Pete Fewing. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "2018 College Soccer Almanac" (PDF). United Soccer Coaches. August 1, 2018. Retrieved May 22, 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 "Nate Daligcon Bio". Seattle University Redhawks Athletics. Seattle University . Retrieved May 22, 2019.
  3. SOCCER - DALIGCON AMONG FOUR SOUNDER SIGNEES Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Thursday, April 18, 1996
  4. 1 2 "Rochester Rhinos Announce 2017 Hall of Fame Class". Rochester Rhinos. October 11, 2017. Retrieved May 22, 2019.
  5. "Nate Daligcon - Men's Soccer Coach". spufalcons.com. SPU Athletics. Retrieved May 22, 2019.
  6. "Daligcon steps down as XC coach". spufalcons.com. SPU Athletics. Retrieved May 22, 2019. Nate Daligcon was a Falcon men's soccer start [ sic ] and later served as the lead assistant coach before leaving for an assistant's job at Division I Seattle University after the 2012 season.
  7. "Nate Daligcon Hired as Assistant Men's Soccer Coach". Seattle University. March 12, 2013. Retrieved May 22, 2019.