Drury University Athletics

Juan Espinal will be in his third season on the Drury men’s soccer coaching staff in 2023 and was promoted to Associate Head Coach after the 2022 campaign.
 
In his two seasons on the staff, the Panthers have gone 15-10-11 with a 12-4-10 mark in the Great Lakes Valley Conference. Drury has also had six All-GLVC selections as wells as one All-Region pick.

He joined the Drury men’s soccer staff in 2021 after a two-season stint as the head coach of Indian Hills Community College. Espinal led the Warriors to a 24-7-3 record and coached 14 ICCAC All-Region players and 36 ICCAC All-Academic team honorees.  
 
Espinal is a native of Muscatine, Iowa, and was formerly a graduate assistant for the men’s soccer team at Iowa Lakes Community College.  
 
In 2023, Juan was inducted into the Muscatine High School Hall of Fame in his hometown of Muscatine, Iowa. He was a four-year varsity starter on the soccer team there from 2008-12 and was a first-team all-conference pick as a sophomore, junior and senior. In his senior year, Espinal registered 32 goals, 16 assists and also received First Team All-State honors.   
 
Juan played for the 1994 Iowa Olympic Development Program (ODP) team throughout his middle and high school years, winning three regional titles and winning a national championship in 2011 at the ODP National Championships in Phoenix, Arizona.   
 
Espinal also played for Eastern Iowa United, based out of Iowa City, Iowa, known as one of the best club teams in the state of Iowa coached under Jon Cook, winning back-to-back state cups and competing at the regional tournament.   
 
Juan has competed at the Semi-Professional level in both the Professional Development League (PDL) and in the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), playing for the Springfield Demize in 2013 (PDL) and playing for the Quad City Eagles in 2014 (NPSL). 
 
Espinal attended Iowa Central Community College from 2012-2014 where he obtained his AA degree and competed at the NJCAA division one level. In 2012, he helped the Tritons to a number six national ranking. He was a two-year starter and a second-team All-Region award winner at Iowa Central.  Juan continued his collegiate career at Texas A&M International University from 2014-2016.  He attained his bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology and a minor in Business Management.      
 
He currently holds his USSF coaching E license and plans to join the USSF D coaching course.