Francis Okaroh Position: Assistant Coach Experience: 5th Season Alma Mater: Boston University, '87, '90

Former Major League Soccer and Terrier standout Francis Okaroh rejoined the Terrier staff for the 2007 season and enters his fifth year as an assistant coach. In 2008 and 2010, he was recognized for being a member of the America East's Coaching Staff of the Year after helping guide BU to America East regular season titles both seasons and a 2008 NCAA berth.

Okaroh played six years in MLS from 1996-2002 and won both an MLS Cup and MLS Defender of the Year honors in 1999. While playing for the New England Revolution in 1998, he won the Champions U.S. Open Cup, and Okaroh's Chicago Fire was the runner up for the cup in 2000. In 2007 he was nominated for the MLS Hall of Fame.

Okaroh has experience playing for the junior and senior Nigerian National teams, and has served as the head coach for the Greater Boston Bolts - the 2005 U-15 national champions. Currently he coaches the U-14 Spirit of Massachusetts team, the U-10, U-16, and U-17 Greater Boston Soccer Club teams and the Sherborn-Dover Girls team.

He was named an All-American three times and was a four-time All-New England selection. Okaroh started all four years and led the Terriers to back-to-back berths in the NCAA Tournament in 1985 and 1986, including an appearance in the Final Eight in 1986.

Okaroh was part of the 1985 team that set program records for fewest goals allowed (11) and most shutouts (12) in a season. He finished his collegiate career with 26 goals scored. In recognition of his stellar undergraduate career, Okaroh was inducted into the BU Hall of Fame in 2006. His brother, Ben, joined him in 2010.