GREENSBORO, N.C. --- The Guilford College Athletics Department is pleased to welcome Sean Reilly as the 17th head coach of the Quakers Men's Soccer program, the department announced on Monday afternoon.

"I am very pleased to welcome Sean Reilly to Guilford Athletics as our next Head Coach for Men's Soccer," Director of Athletics, Bill Foti said. "He brings a wealth of experience as a highly accomplished and respected head coach at the Division III level. He has demonstrated that he can lead a team at a championship level and qualify for the NCAA tournament. I am particularly confident in his ability to recruit the student-athletes necessary to compete in the highly competitive ODAC conference."

"I am very grateful to get the opportunity to lead this program," Reilly said. "I cannot wait to get started and begin to create our new identity at Guilford. We will develop a style of playing that will make Quakers past and present proud"

Reilly has spent the last-three seasons up in the Empire State, heading Manhattanville University, leading the program's most-successful two-year stint ever in 2023 and 2024. He led the Valiants to consecutive Skyline Conference Championships during those seasons, winning their first league titles since the turn of the century and snapping a decade-long spell from the NCAA Tournament, with their prior trip to the dance coming in 2011. MU accrued a cumulative record of 30-23-8, good for a .557 winning percentage, during their time under Reilly. Their 13 victories in 2024 were their most since 2019 while a dozen Valiants were selected All-Skyline under his guidance.

Prior to his stint at Manhattanville, Reilly spent the prior five years about 20 miles south as Assistant to Head Coach with Division-I Manhattan College. He bookended his stint with the most-successful seasons, helping lead the Jaspers to a program-record 12 wins in 2018, receiving votes in the national polls that season and peaking with a program RPI of 31. By 2022, he helped elevate MC into the top-three in the standings in the MAAC while the program compiled a .500 mark of 34-34-9 during his tenure.

Playing a season of professional soccer both in the USL with the Rochester Rhinos and overseas, Reilly also collected a handful of coaching stops with Concordia College, Brockport University, and at the club level.

Opening his collegiate playing career with Division-I Bryant, he spent a majority of his college playing career with then Division-II St. Thomas Aquinas College where he was an All-ECC Second Team performer in 2011, helping the Spartans to an NCAA Tournament berth. He graduated from STAC in 2013 with a degree in Sports Management.

Reilly takes over the Quakers program after posting their top record and most wins since 2022, including their first Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) victory in that time, although they still finished 4-12-2 and 1-7-1 in league play.