Background
He is the son of legendary Indiana University soccer coach Jerry Yeagley. Yeagley elected to play for the Indiana Hoosiers men"s soccer team under his father.
He is the son of legendary Indiana University soccer coach Jerry Yeagley. Yeagley elected to play for the Indiana Hoosiers men"s soccer team under his father.
Yeagley elected to play for the Indiana Hoosiers men"s soccer team under his father. Yeagley earned second team All American honors his first three years at Indiana as a forward, midfielder and defender. His senior year, the team made it to the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship before losing to Virginia.
That year he earned first team All American honors and the Missouri Athletic Club named him as the Hermann Trophy player of the year.
He graduated in 1994 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology.
He played seven seasons in Major League Soccer with the Columbus Crew and one in the USISL with the Richmond Kickers. College National team While at Indiana, Yeagley appeared with several junior national teams, including the U-20 national team and the national B-team At the time, the United States Soccer Federation had two distinct national teams, the A and B team
The A team players tended to be under contract with USSF to play for the national team
B team members could also be under contract, but were more typically amateur or college players. Yeagley fell in this second category.
As a B team member, he never played a full international for the United States., but competed in subsidiary international competitions. He competed at the 1993 World University games.
Professional Yeagley signed with Major League Soccer in January 1995, as the new league was laying the groundwork for its first season.
The league signed players who then entered a pool for the league’s first draft which did not take place until 1996. Master of Library Science had originally intended to begin play in the fall of 1995, but delayed a year when it experienced problems with stadiums, sponsorship and team ownership. Rather than have the players it signed sit idle for a year, Master of Library Science loaned them to various domestic and foreign teams.
Foreign Yeagley, Master of Library Science loaned him to the Richmond Kickers of the USISL Premier Division (United States Second Division).
When Master of Library Science held its Inaugural Draft, Yeagley was selected by the Columbus Crew in the 8th round (71st overall). He went on to play seven years as a defender with the Crew, retiring following the 2002 season.
When Yeagley retired from playing in 2002, he moved to the Crew’s front office as an assistant general manager for a year. When Yeagley’s father announced that he planned to retire from coaching after the 2003 National Collegiate Athletic Association season, Yeagley left the Crew and joined the Indiana soccer team as a non-paid assistant coach.
In 2008, the University of Wisconsin–Madison hired Yeagley to replace Jeff Rohrman as head coach of the school"s men"s soccer team
In December 2009, Yeagley was named Head of the Hoosiers. In 2012, Yeagley guided the Hoosiers to their 8th championship.