Ryan Vint (University of Wisconsin '11) enters his fifth season on the Augsburg coaching staff in 2016.
Vint played five seasons (including one redshirt year) of men's soccer at the University of Wisconsin (2006-11). While at Wisconsin, he earned Big Ten Conference Defensive Player of the Week honors (Oct. 4, 2010), was named to the UC-Irvine College Classic all-tournament team and served as team captain for the Badgers. Playing behind now pro keeper Alex Horwath (New York Red Bulls), Vint started on and off until his senior season, where he posted a 1.37 GAA and a .770 save percentage along with being ranked second in the Big Ten Conference in saves per-game (4.70). Vint made a career-high 11 saves in a 1-1 double overtime draw at Indiana (Oct. 3) and recorded 47 saves over the first ten weeks until sidelined with an injury.
In his five years with the Badgers, Vint had three different Head coaches and was able to come out of Indiana without a loss for the first time since the team last did it in 1994. He also was apart of the first Wisconsin team to make it past the first round of the Big Ten Tournament since 2002.
Vint has served as a goalkeeper coach for the Elite Boys Wisconsin Training Camp sessions each summer to help prepare kids for the next step and help evaluate talent for the program. He currently works as an Enterprise Data Storage Rep for Dell in Eden Prairie and joined there shortly after earning his bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Business Management from UW-Madison in 2011.
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As a player for Wayzata HS, Vint finished his career with a 35-5-5 record and 30 shutouts. He finished his senior year with a 20-1-1 record while in net and a 0.23 goals against average with 18 shutouts in route to a Class AA state championship. He was the first goalkeeper in the history of the award to be named Minnesota Mr. Soccer for Class 2A as well as Metro Player of the Year. He added to this list of accomplishments when he was named as one of only five soccer players nationwide to earn both All-American and Scholar All-American honors. He was named all-conference twice, earned both all-state honorable mention and all-state honors along with Cable 12 TV’s Goalkeeper of the Year and Minnesota Gatorade Player-of-the-Year.
Personal/Family Notes:
Ryan and his wife Mindy reside in Minneapolis.
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