Pompert

Rudy Pompert

Rudy Pompert concluded his 12th season as the head coach of the Buffalo State men’s soccer team in 2011, and has a record of 79-117-18 overall.

Pompert accepted the men’s position in 2000 following three years as the bench boss of the women’s team. Pompert's best season to date came in 2004, when the Bengals went 11-5-1 and made a trip to the SUNYAC playoffs the ended with a heartbreaking 1-0 loss to New Paltz in double-overtime. During his tenure on the women’s side, he accumulated a 17-34-1 record and helped the team reach its highest win total in 13 years in 1998.

Pompert, a native of the Netherlands, worked with the world renowned soccer club Ajax Amsterdam. He also played semi-professional and top amateur soccer in the Netherlands, and competed with the Dutch national college team from 1990 through 1993. He first came to the Western New York area while he was goaltender in the 1993 World University Games in Buffalo, New York.

Upon arriving in Buffalo in 1995, Pompert coached the Buffalo Fillies W-League women’s soccer team. At the time, the W-League was the highest level of women’s soccer in the United States.

Pompert possesses a National A-License of the United States Soccer Federation and an Advanced National Diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association. During offseason, he heads up the Buffalo State Goalie Camp in July and Soccer Goalie Promotion Day in April. Each are among the area’s premier soccer camps for boys and girls. Pompert also works as the Director of Coaching for the Delaware Soccer Club. 

He also runs  individual and small group goalie training sessions, is the director of goalkeeping for the Empire Soccer Club and an assistant/goalie coach with the professional women’s soccer team Buffalo Flash, who just captured the 2010 National Championship in the USISL W-league.

He has a son Wyatt and resides in Buffalo.