Player Bio: Brian Wiese

Player Bio: Brian Wiese

  Brian Wiese
Brian Wiese
Player Profile
Position:
Assistant Men's Soccer Coach

Brian Wiese is in his fifth season with the Stanford men’s soccer program. After working part time as the team’s goalkeeper coach for three years, he was named a full time assistant coach in 1999.

Over the last four years, Wiese has developed the Stanford defense into one of the top units in the country. In 1996, his first year with the Cardinal, Stanford posted a 1.19 goals against average, allowing just 23 goals in 18 games. That year the team compiled a 10-4-4 record, the program’s first winning season in four years. The 1997 season was even better as the Cardinal gave up only 14 goals in 20 games for a 0.66 GAA en route to a 13-5-2 record and the team’s first NCAA Tournament appearance in five years. The 1998 Cardinal defense surrendered just 15 goals in 25 games, setting a school record and finishing fourth in the nation with a 0.56 GAA. Stanford rode the play of its ’98 back line to the NCAA Championship match and a final No. 2 national ranking. Last year, the Cardinal defense posted nine shutouts and registered a 0.88 GAA.

Under Wiese’s tutelage, current senior goalkeeper Adam Zapala has developed into one of the most prolific netminders in Stanford history. Zapala holds five school records: career shutouts (36), career goals-against average (0.69), single season in-goal minutes (2,377 in 1998), single season shutouts (15 in 1998) and single season goals-against average (0.57 in 1998). Zapala has been honored as a three-time NSCAA Far West Region All-America and MPSF All-Federation selection. As a freshman, he became the first Cardinal to be selected to the Soccer America All-Freshman Team.

Prior to joining the Stanford coaching staff, Wiese had a very successful collegiate career at Dartmouth College, where he posted 15 career shutouts as the goalkeeper for then-head coach Bobby Clark. A 1995 graduate, Wiese was the Big Green’s netminder from 1992-94, leading the 1992 squad to the NCAA Quarterfinals. A three-time selection to the All-Ivy League Team, Wiese was named team MVP in 1993 and was co-captain of the 1994 squad. In addition, he was given Academic All-Ivy League accolades in 1993 and ’94.

Just after his senior season, Wiese took the winter term off to play in Africa with the Bulawayo Highlanders. He then moved to San Diego where he coached the Del Mar Tsunami Club in 1995.

A native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Wiese received a Master’s Degree in Product Design from Stanford in 1998.

Wiese and his wife, Becky, who ran track at Dartmouth and now is an editor with Sunset Magazine, reside in Menlo Park, California.