Dane Christian Joins Women's Soccer Staff
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Dane Christian, who spent the last year as a volunteer assistant coach at Washington State, has been named to the same position with the Oregon State women’s soccer program, head coach Linus Rhode announced on Tuesday.
Christian spent the past year at Washington State, where he helped lead the Cougars to an 11-5-3 record and a 4-4-1 mark in the Pac-10 Conference, including a win over eventual national champion USC.
Prior to his sting at Washington State, Christian served as an assistant varsity women's coach for Moscow High School. In 2006 and 2007, he coached at the summer soccer camps for Washington State and Oregon State and has coached an Under-18 Moscow (Idaho) United boy's team.
Christian played his collegiate soccer at Concordia (Wisc.) University and Concordia (Ala.) College. In 2001, he played in the Central Florida Soccer League and in 2004 he played in the Atlanta District Adult Soccer League.
In addition to his coaching experience, has taught high school math and science at Selma High School in Alabama. He also taught an undergraduate course in elementary logic and last spring he co-taught a graduate course in statistics at Washington State.
As a native of Trinidad & Tobago, Christian grew up playing club and high school soccer with some of the best players in the country. In 2001, he was selected to participate with Trinidad & Tobago's U-23 team in several preparation matches.
Christian is currently a doctoral student at Washington State in educational measurement and testing. He received his bachelor's degree in humanities and English with minors in philosophy and natural science from Concordia University in 2003 and earned a master’s degree in philosophy from Washington State in 2006.
Christian is married to current Oregon State assistant women’s soccer coach Morgan Crabtree.
