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...languishing under .500 the previous two seasons, this year’s Crimson team made its first trip to NCAAs since 1996. Much of the success was overshadowed by the football team’s dream season, but it put Harvard back on the road to national renown. That, Kerr says, was his reason for taking the job in the first place...
...Kerr has only been affiliated with Harvard for three years, but he has a better idea than most about what those days were like. Kerr was a senior at Duke when the Crimson advanced all the way to the Final Four in 1986. The Blue Devils won the NCAA title that year, as Kerr, who also claimed men’s college Player of the Year honors, had two goals and an assist in Duke’s 3-2 win over the Crimson in the national semifinals...
After college, Kerr spent time playing professionally in Europe, as well as in the United States. After the Major Indoor Soccer League folded in 1992, Kerr joined the coaching staff at Duke as the top assistant to his former mentor, John Rennie. Kerr signed on on a trial basis, committing only to the first six weeks of the season. But he ended up loving it so much, he stayed the whole season. After that, Kerr—whose father coached him during his teens—had the coaching bug in his system for good...
Following stints with Major League Soccer’s Dallas Burn and New England Revolution, and then a tour of duty with the Boston Bulldogs of the professional A-League, Kerr came to Harvard in the summer of 1999. At the time, his wife Tracy, now the head women’s soccer coach at Providence College, was an assistant with the Harvard women’s team. Kerr brought with him a new coaching philosophy and a new style. But the players weren’t the only ones who had to adjust...
While Harvard’s culture of amateur athletics might have been new to Kerr, it hasn’t prevented him from instilling a professional approach and attaching a seriousness to the program...