Drury University Athletics

Alf Bilbao will enter his 14th year as the head coach of the Drury women’s soccer program in 2019 and has been a key figure in building both the men’s and women’s soccer teams at Drury.

He enters the 2019 season with the most wins ever by a Drury women’s soccer head coach owning a 113-98-34 (.531) record. 

In 2007, Bilbao led the Panthers to a 17-5-3 record, the GLVC tournament championship and an NCAA-II national tournament appearance. The Panthers advanced to the NCAA-II round of 16 for the first time in program history with wins over West Virginia Wesleyan and Southern Illinois-Edwardsville.  

Bilbao was hired as the Drury men's soccer coach when he arrived from Truman State in 2005 and was given the task of coaching both the DU men and women a year later for what became a three-year run of pulling double-duty on the sidelines (2006-08).

As head coach of the men's program for four seasons, he went 43-27-10 and had the Panthers in the national rankings in his final two seasons.  

Bilbao helped build the Truman State men's soccer program into an NCAA-II contender as he led his alma mater into the NCAA-II top 25 in five of his seven seasons, including three trips to the NCAA tournament (1998, 1999, 2003). In 2003, he led Truman to a 19-0 regular season mark and the NCAA-II quarterfinals. Bilbao was named Coach of the Year for the Central Region by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America in 2003. He left Truman with a school-record 96 victories and .716 winning percentage to go with a 96-28-10 record.

Bilbao, a native of Hillsboro, Oregon, played at Truman State from 1988 to 1992, playing in 66 games in his career and scoring four goals, with six assists and 14 points. The Bulldogs team captain in his senior year, Bilbao graduated with a degree in Exercise Science in 1993 while serving as an assistant coach that year.

Following graduation, he was a high school assistant coach in Lake Zurich, Ill., for one season before moving to Des Moines, Iowa, to play for the Des Moines Menace of the Premier Developmental League. He also served as head coach of Lincoln High School in Des Moines for one season. Bilbao went on to coach Central College in Pella, Iowa, running both the men's and women's programs at the D-III college, for one season before returning to Truman State in July of 1998.

Bilbao is the father of three children, Aidan (16), Abby (13) and Keegan (9).

COACH BILBAO YEAR-BY-YEAR, DRURY WOMEN'S SOCCER