Rider Broncs men's soccer

Rider Broncs men's soccer
Founded	1933 (1933)[1]
University	Rider University
Head coach	Dennis Bohn[2] (3rd. season)
Conference	MAAC I Division
Location	Lawrenceville, New Jersey, US
Stadium	Ben Cohen Field[3] (capacity: n/a)
Nickname	Broncs
Colors	Cranberry, white, and gray[4]
Home Away
NCAA tournament appearances
1997, 1998, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2023
Conference tournament championships
1997, 1998, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2023
Conference regular season championships
2002

The Rider Broncs men's soccer is the intercollegiate varsity soccer team representing the Rider University, located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. The team is a member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference athletic conference of NCAA Division I.^[5]

The Broncs' current head coach Chad Duernberger,^[2] who is in charge since 2023.^[6] The team play their home matches at Ben Cohen Field, inaugurated in 2010.^[3]

Established in 1933,^[1] the Rider soccer program has won six MAAC tournaments^[7], the last in 2023.^[8]

Stadium

The Broncs play their home matches at Ben Cohen Field, opened in 2010. The venue has an artificial grass surface by FieldTurf since 2020. The first match played under this surface was in September 2020 with a women's soccer game against Fairleigh Dickinson. It was also the first match played at night in the history of Rider’s Lawrenceville campus.^[9]

The stadium was named after Benjamin Cohen '10, Rider's alumni and son of David and Rhonda Cohen, donators to the stadium's surface improvements.^[3]

The stadium is also the home venue to the Rider women's soccer and field hockey teams.^[10]

Players

Current roster

As of December 2025^[11]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  NZL Ben Collins 2 DF  USA Ryan Vaubel 3 DF  USA Max Schrader 4 DF  USA Bobby Lucien 5 DF  GER Bobby Lucien 7 MF  SVN Lovro Kostanjsek 8 MF  NED Ezra Punselie 11 MF  USA Drew Heil 12 MF  BRA Theo Da Silva 13 MF  USA William Baker 14 DF  USA Sebastian Suber 15 FW  USA Ethan Gregory 16 FW  USA Xavi Csato

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 FW  USA Patryk Rojek 18 FW  POL Oli Karbownik 19 MF  USA Daniel Gonzalez 20 MF  USA Landon Lackner 21 DF  TCA Ricky Joasilus 22 FW  USA Gio Polizzi 24 DF  AUS Kaelan Debbage 25 MF  USA Luke Kirilenko 26 MF  USA Brandon Carro 27 DF  BER Daniel Cook 30 MF  USA Colton Beuck 32 GK  FRA Marius Helias 42 GK  ISR Yoav Arikha

Records

Source:^[12]

key

•   – member of the Rider Athletics Hall of Fame
•   – member of the Rider Athletics Hall of Fame and inducted to the National Soccer Hall of Fame

Top scorers # Nat. Player Goals Tenure 1 Craig Wicken 49 1995–98 2 Bobby Smith [13] 46 1969–72 3 Matt Miles 46 1993–96 4 Tom Wieboldt 39 1974–77 5 Dennis Ducko 33 1955–59

Assistances # Nat. Player Goals Tenure 1 José Aguinaga 32 2014–17 2 Todd Moore 26 1994–97 3 Craig Wicken 24 1995–98 Mike Stasiulaitis 1989–91 Len Matysek 1958–60 4 Elliott Otmani 22 2015–18 5 Christian Flath 21 2013–16

Players in the pros

Rider players that play/have played at professional levels are:

Nat.	Player	Pos.	Pro	Professional career (teams)	Ref.
	Bobby Smith	DF	1973	Philadelphia Atoms, NY Cosmos, San Diego Sockers, Philadelphia Fury	[14]
	Florian Valot	MF	2016	New York Red Bulls II, FC Cincinnati, Miami FC	[15]
	José Aguinaga	FW	2018	New York Red Bulls II, Phoenix Rising	[16]

Coaches

Team statistics

Titles

References

External links

• Official website