Eric Wagner took over the Garnet soccer program in 2002, transforming the team in short order. In ten seasons, Wagner's teams have posted a 122-59-22 record, and have had 12 post-season tournament appearances.  Last season, the Garnet won their second ECAC championship, defeating the top two seeds en route to the title.  In 2010, Wagner's Garnet squad posted a 16-1-4 record, won the Centennial Conference Championship for the second time in three seasons (2010, 2008) and reached the NCAA Tournament for the third-consecutive season (2008-10). The 2010 season also saw the Garnet earn a No. 1 national ranking for the first time in program history.  During the 2008 and 2009 seasons, Wagner led the Garnet to back-to-back NCAA Sweet 16 appearances.  For his coaching efforts during the breakthrough 2008 season, Wagner was named the Centennial Conference and Mid-Atlantic Region Coach of the Year.

In 24 years coaching at the college level, Wagner has earned a reputation for developing talented young soccer players and turning teams into nationally competitive programs.  Emphasizing intelligent, creative attacking play, an honest work ethic, and hard-nosed, disciplined defending, Wagner's team had a +36 goal differential in '10, the best in program history.  In the past nine seasons, the Garnet have had 32 All-Centennial Conference players, 58 Academic All-Conference selections, 13 Regional All-Americans, four All-American selections (Morgan Langley '11, Micah Rose '12 (twice), Jeff Kushner '09) and two players sign professional soccer contracts (Morgan Langley '11 and Ladule Lako Lo Sarah '09).  Wagner's Garnet squads have also earned multiple selections to the Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Stars selections – including recent grads Micah Rose '12 & David D’Annunzio ‘12 – and three Academic All-Americans.  Along with goalkeeper Reuben Heyman-Kantor '06, who was named 1st-team CoSida Academic All-American in 2005, Rose and D’Annunzio were named Academic All-America in 2011, marking just the 12^th and 13^th so honored in Swarthmore athletics history.

Wagner earned a B.A. from Connecticut College in '88, and an M.Ed. from Temple University in '07.  He played four years of Division III soccer for the Camels, after which he served as the assistant coach of the women's team at his alma mater.  He helped the Camels earn the school's first-ever ECAC Championship in 1988.  He was assistant coach at Wheaton College (Mass.), Duke University, and at The University of Notre Dame.  In 1993, he was selected as the first head coach of the new varsity soccer program at Southwestern University in Texas.  In 1997, Wagner moved to St. Mary's College of Maryland, where he became the winningest coach in the college's history.

Wagner earned the Advanced National Diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, and has also coached baseball and tennis at the college level.  He has been a staff coach in four states' Olympic Development Programs, and a member of the Region 1 ODP staff.  Wagner's teams are always active in the community, with service projects, youth soccer clinics, and community outreach throughout the year.

Wagner's playing career includes four years of NCAA soccer, one year with the Heidelberger Sport Club in Germany, two seasons in Raleigh, N.C. ('92 State Champions), two years in Austin, Tex. and a year of semi-pro soccer in Hartford, Conn.  His connections to Swarthmore College go back several years, as two of his sisters graduated from Swarthmore.  Lise ('85, Political Science) and Karin ('90, Religion) are two of the Garnet's most dedicated fans.  Wagner lives in Swarthmore with his wife, Leslee, and their sons, Camden and Nicholas.

Ciarán Dalton 

has been with the Garnet since 2003.  He began his playing career in Swarthmore on various Swarthmore Recreation Association teams.  He attended Strath Haven High School in Wallingford, Pa., where he was a three-year varsity letter-winner and an All-Delco selection his senior year.  Dalton then attended Millersville University, and was a four-year varsity player.  He was selected for the All-PSAC 2nd team his sophomore and junior seasons.  As a senior, he was team captain, was named to the All-PSAC 1st team, and earned Mid-Atlantic Regional All-America honors. He currently ranks second all-time in Millersville history in goals with 43, assists (19), and points (105).  Dalton also played semi-professionally for the Cobh Ramblers in Ireland.

Dalton earned his B.A. in Special Education from Millersville in 2000 and his Master's Degree in regular education at Temple University in 2004.  This past summer he earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from Immaculata University.  He has been teaching in the Interboro School District at the Glenolden School in a primary emotional support class for the past nine years. Prior to joining the Garnet, he was an assistant coach at Strath Haven for three years. He helped Strath Haven to the 2001 State Championship and they were runners-up in 2002.

Due in large part to Dalton's work with the Garnet attackers, Swarthmore's 2010 team achieved the best goal differential in team history (+36).  The team scored in 19 of its 21 matches, and 11 Garnet players scored at least one goal.  He also aided in the development of All-American Morgan Langley '11, who produced the best single-season offensive numbers in program history (14 goals, 14 assists) in 2010.  Dalton has launched the psychological development of the Garnet players through confidence building, visual imagery, cognitive strategies, mindfulness, and improved focus.  Dalton has helped the Garnet become a leader in community service, and is also involved with many local youth soccer programs.  Dalton enters his ninth season with the Garnet in '11.  He resides in Wallingford with his wife, Jenn and son, Jack.

Tor Erik Hotham joined the coaching staff in 2008.  He has been playing soccer since he was six years old.  He was a two-time All-American at Shippensburg University.  At the time of his graduation, he held the team career record for assists.

A midfielder, Tor came to Shippensburg in the fall of 1984 from Warminster and William Tennent High School.  While playing at William Tennent, he was an All-Bucks County selection his junior and senior years.

He finished his career with 25 goals and 19 assists.  He led Shippensburg in assists all four years. It also marked the only time in history that the Red Raiders won 10 games or more four years in a row.

Following graduation, Hotham was hired as the men's assistant soccer coach at Bloomsburg University.   He also earned his MBA from Bloomsburg.  He currently enjoys a successful career as a financial advisor.  He is a managing partner for his own firm, The Comprehensive Wealth Management Group in West Chester, PA.  He resides in Wallingford, Pennsylvania with his wife and three children.

Harry Ischiropoulos enters his fifth season as assistant coach for the Garnet.  He began his soccer career in Thessaloniki, Greece in the youth systems of Iraklis FC and national selection teams.  After high school, he arrived in New York to pursue his college education while playing semi-professional soccer for clubs in New York, California and Alabama.  He was a member of Alabama's Olympic festival team.  Upon arriving in Philadelphia, he has played with several local clubs, most recently with the Radnor United over-40 club that has won the National Veteran's cup, the Keystone indoor games and toured England.

Ischiropoulos, a graduate of Wagner College ('84) and New York Medical College ('90), is a Joseph Stokes Jr. Investigator and the Gisela and Dennis Alter Research Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania.

Ischiropoulos is primarily involved with technical player development and tactical analysis of the Garnet’s matches.  Last August, Harry was the primary organizer of the team’s outstanding pre-season training trip to Crete and Athens, Greece.  Ischiropoulos lives in Nether Providence with his wife, Patti and sons, Dean and Alex.

Michael O’Connor enters his second season as the goalkeeper coach for the Garnet.  A veteran of the University of Pennsylvania's soccer program, O’Connor was a goalkeeper during his time in the Red and Blue uniform, and worked as the goalkeeping coach with the Quakers for six years before joining Swarthmore in 2011.

O'Connor has worked with all of Swarthmore's current goalkeepers, and even coached 2011 Academic All-America David D'Annunzio as a high school senior at the Elite 300 Soccer Academy before he entered Swarthmore.  Last season, D'Annunzio broke the career record for shutouts by a Garnet goalkeeper, and became the first Swarthmore player since Reuben Heyman-Kantor in 2005 to be selected to the Academic All-America team.  In 2005-06, O’Connor coached Penn goalkeeper Dan Cepero to two outstanding seasons that included sixteen shutouts in the two seasons, and led to him being drafted by the MLS’ New York Red Bulls.

O’Connor brings a wealth of collegiate and professional soccer experience to the Garnet.  He played at Penn from 1996-99, earning All-Ivy honors all four years and capturing the Ivy League Rookie of the Year award in 1996.  An All-Mid-Atlantic Region selection that year as well, O’Connor went on to be a two-year captain and Academic All-Ivy honoree.  He still holds Penn goalkeeping records for career saves and minutes played.

Following graduation, O’Connor signed with the Hershey (Pa.) Wildcats of the A-League, and had a successful run, earning A-League Goalkeeper of the Month honors in July 2000.

In 2001, he left professional soccer to work in advertising sales at Madison Square Garden, and later became Manager of Corporate Partnership Sales for the (then) NY/NJ MetroStars of Major League Soccer.  In addition to his duties with the Garnet Soccer program, he is currently a Senior Advertising Executive with Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia.