Hall of Fame
In nearly 14 years of service to Husson University, coach Keith Bosley elevated the women’s soccer program to both conference and national prominence, while also serving as an administrator and professor.
Bosley inherited a women’s soccer program that had gone 16-102-10 (.164) in its first nine years as a varsity sport, and over his 14 years at the helm, the green and gold posted a 163-97-15 (.620) record from 1998-2011, with four North Atlantic Conference Championships (2006-2009) and five National Collegiate Athletics Association Division III National Tournament appearances (2003, 2006-2009).
His teams earned postseason berths in 13 of his 14 years, while reaching the NAC championship game eight times, including six straight from 2006-2011. A feat no another NAC member that sponsors’ women’s soccer has repeated.
Husson reached the 10-victory plateau in eight of Bosley’s 14 years and posted 15 or more wins three times, including the 2006 team which posted a single-season record 17 wins - at the time of his induction.
The program’s first-ever national tournament win came during Bosley’s tenure, a 2-0 victory at Norwich University on November 13, 2008.
He produced 53 all-conference selections, five United Soccer Coaches All-Region players, 32 conference all-tournament honorees and five National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics All-Region 10 selections. Additionally, Bosley coached two NAC player and rookie of the Year, a NAC defensive player of the year, a Maine Athletic Conference Scholar Athlete of the Year and four NAC tournament MVP recipients. Bosley’s teams excelled academically, with five student-athletes being named a United Soccer Coaches All-East Scholar Athletes, 27 earning NAC all-academic honors, one receiving College Sports Communicators All-District and All-American accolades and one receiving a NCAA women’s enhancement program postgraduate scholarship.
Bosley is Husson University’s all-time winningest coach - at the time of his induction - and was named MAC coach of the year in 2000.
A total of eight of Bosley’s former players have already been inducted into the Husson University Sports Hall of Fame.
A native of Schenectday, New York, Bosley resides in Bear, Delaware. He has two daughters; Bethany and Elissa and four grandchildren; Ewan, Hazel, Hunter and Hayden.
