Warren Lipka

Warren Lipka
Personal information
Full name	Warren Lipka
Date of birth	September 10, 1964 (age 59)
Place of birth	St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
College career
Years	Team
1982–1985	South Carolina
Senior career*
Years	Team
1986–1989	Fort Wayne Flames (indoor)
1989–1990	Indiana Kick (indoor)
1990–1991	Detroit Rockers (indoor)
Managerial career
1987–1990	Bishop Dwenger High School (assistant)
1989	Tri-State University women
1989–1991	Indiana Kick
1991	Kentucky men (assistant)
1992–2008	Kentucky women
2003	U.S. U-19 women (assistant)
2003–2004	U.S. U-21 women (assistant)
2009–2021	Morehead State women
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:43, 23 March 2007 (UTC); ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 27 June 2006

Warren Lipka is an American retired

soccer goalkeeper who formerly coached the University of Kentucky and Morehead State University

women's soccer teams.

Youth and college

Lipka attended

goalkeeper on the men's soccer team. He spent his first two seasons as a backup to Glen Thompson. Once he earned the starting spot in 1984, he rewarded his team with a .36 GAA. He followed that in 1985 with a .75 GAA as South Carolina went to the third round of the NCAA tournament where it lost to Davidson.^[3] That year he was named the ISAA Goalkeeper of the Year. He finished his career at South Carolina with 13 shutouts, tied with Charles Arndt, for the Gamecocks’ record. He graduated from South Carolina in 1986 with a bachelor's degree

in hotel and restaurant management.

Playing career

Lipka joined the

San Diego Sockers before signing with the Detroit Rockers

of the NPSL in November 1990. He was an NPSL All Star that season.

Coaching

Lipka began his coaching career while playing for the Flames. In 1987, he joined

National Professional Soccer League

(NPSL).

In 1991, the University of Kentucky hired Lipka as its men's soccer team assistant coach. The next season, the university hired him as the women's soccer team head coach, the first women's soccer coach in the school's history. He was the SEC coach of the year in 1995, 1999 and 2006.

In 2003, United States Soccer Federation hired Lipka as the goalkeeper coach of the U.S. U-19 women's national team, a position he held through 2003 and 2004. In 2004, the U-19 team took third place at the U-19 World Cup. In 2004, he also served as the goalkeeper coach for the U.S. U-21 women's national team at the Nordic Cup, which the U.S. won for the fifth consecutive time.

He has also coached various Olympic Development Program teams as well as youth soccer clubs and camps.

Lipka served as the head coach for the

Morehead State Eagles women's soccer team from 2009 to 2021. Lipka finished his tenure there with an 88–130–29 record and won OVC Tournament Championships.^[4]

References

^ https://storage.googleapis.com/ukathletics-com/2017/08/49ed2f52-55dc8078e4b00d23ac551700.pdf
^ https://twitter.com/MSUEaglesSoccer/status/1171477396584714240
^ USC Men's Soccer Record Book
^ Schabert, Matt (November 4, 2021). "Contract of Soccer Head Coach Warren Lipka Will Not Be Renewed". msueagles.com. Morehead State Athletics. Retrieved July 5, 2022.

[1] ttps://storage.googleapis.com/ukathletics-com/2017/08/49ed2f52-55dc8078e4b00d23ac551700.pdf

[2] ttps://twitter.com/MSUEaglesSoccer/status/1171477396584714240

[3] USC Men's Soccer Record Book

[4] Schabert, Matt (November 4, 2021). "Contract of Soccer Head Coach Warren Lipka Will Not Be Renewed". msueagles.com. Morehead State Athletics. Retrieved July 5, 2022.

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