Brad McCarty
Head Men's Soccer Coach
Camp Director

Phone: 717-796-1800, x.7054
Email: [email protected]

The 2023 season was Brad McCarty's 15th season year as the head coach of the Messiah men's soccer team. McCarty took over the program prior to the 2009 season, but served as an assistant in the program for eight years prior to taking over the head coaching role. Before coming back to Messiah men's soccer program as an assistant in 2001, McCarty served as head men's soccer coach at Hesston College (1994-1999), head women's soccer coach at Erskine College (2000), and the Messiah men's junior varsity coach (1993).

NOTABLE MESSIAH ACCOLADES

• 266-19-18 overall record at Messiah
  • His winning percentage of .908 is the second highest winning percentage in NCAA men’s or women’s soccer across all three division, trailing only Scott Frey.
• Five NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer National Championships as Head Coach
  • 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2017
  • Five-time National Champion as an assistant coach – 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008
• 12 NCAA Tournament Appearances
  • 39-6-2 (.840 winning percentage) overall record in the NCAA Tournament
  • Five National Championships
• 10 Conference Championships
  • 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
• Three-time National Coach of the Year
  • 2009, 2012, 2017
• Four-time Regional Coach of the Year
  • Most recently 2022
• Seven-time Conference Coach of the Year
  • 2010, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
• MAC Six Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year
• Coached 14 Conference Players of the Year
• Coached Three Conference Rookies of the Year
• Coached 50 All-Region honorees
• Coached 26 All-Americans
• Coached Seven National Players of the Year
  • Geoff Pezon (2010), Jeremy Payne (2012, 2014), Josh Wood (2013), Jacob Bender (2016), Nick West (2018), Matt McDonald (2022)

Aaron Faro

2023 will mark Aaron Faro's 15th season as the top assistant within the Messiah men's soccer program. A former standout on the soccer pitch for the Falcons, Faro is the Assistant Camp Director for the Messiah Boys Soccer Camps.  Faro provides leadership in the summertime as a Lead Coach on the staff for the Christian College ID Camp, Day Camp, and Resident Camps.  Faro also created two of the camps offered each summer--Team Camp and the Little Falcons Camp--and is the acting Director for those camps.

Prior to returning to his alma mater, Faro spent five years playing professional soccer while also working in sports ministry. Much of Faro’s experience stems from his work at Missionary Athletes International (MAI), one of the world leaders in sports ministry. Following graduation, Faro both played and worked for the United Soccer League’s Charlotte Eagles organization — a subsidiary of MAI. Faro’s playing career spanned five seasons with the Eagles, helping the club to the USL National Championship in 2005 while aiding to runner-up finishes in both 2004 and 2006.

Faro also spent four years of his playing career as the Charlotte Eagles camp director, overseeing all aspects of 20-plus camps each summer while managing over 60 staff members. Under Faro’s leadership, the Eagles’ sessions grew to include camps for high school and college teams as well as camps for underprivileged youth in the inner city and Hispanic communities of Charlotte.