John Bluem
Bluem coached 21 seasons at Ohio State after six seasons at Fresno State, where he guided the program through its move from the Big West Conference to the Western Athletic Conference.
At Ohio State, Bluem won 206 matches and five Big Ten championships, earned four Big Ten Coach of the Year awards, made 10 NCAA Tournament appearances and finished as the 2007 NCAA runner-up. In 27 seasons overall, he won 292 matches, reached the NCAA Tournament 14 times and earned seven Coach of the Year honors. Ohio State inducted him into its Athletics Hall of Fame in 2022, and Hartwick College, where he graduated in 1975, inducted him in 2002.
Bobby Kramig
Kramig coached at Miami University for 34 years, including the first 20 seasons of the women’s program. He won 356 matches in Oxford, three men’s and two women’s Mid-American Conference regular-season championships and four MAC Tournament titles with the women. He also won three NCAA Tournament matches with the women and earned conference coach of the year honors twice leading the men. Miami inducted Kramig into its Athletics Hall of Fame in 2021 and named its soccer field Bobby Kramig Field in 2019. He received the OCSA Honor Award in 2013.
John McGillivray
McGillivray spent 42 years coaching at his alma mater, Cedarville University. He started with the men’s team in 1974 and moved to the women’s team in 1998, its second year of varsity play. He won 375 matches combined, 215 with the men and 160 with the women. He led the Yellow Jackets to six NCCAA district/regional championships, seven NCCAA national championship appearances, four NAIA district/area championships, an NAIA National Tournament appearance, a Great Midwest Athletic Conference championship and an NCAA Division II National Tournament appearance. McGillivray earned NAIA District Coach of the Year honors and the OCSA Honor Award.
Mike Tucker
Tucker spent 22 years leading the Dayton women’s soccer program, winning 313 matches overall and 167 in Atlantic 10 Conference play. His teams won 10 Atlantic 10 Tournament championships and made 10 NCAA Tournament appearances. He was a five-time Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year, the 2009 NSCAA Mid-Atlantic Region Coach of the Year and a finalist for national coach of the year. When he reached 300 wins in 2015, he was one of just 17 active NCAA Division I coaches to do so.
Walter Ersing
Ersing, who died in 2018, is the OCSA’s legacy selection. He played a major role in developing soccer in Ohio and the United States, working with the U.S. Olympic Committee from 1964 to 1974. He coached Ohio State for 10 seasons, from 1958 to 1968. He founded and coordinated the Ohio Collegiate Referee Association, served as NSCAA vice president from 1966 to 1967, served as president of the Ohio Collegiate Soccer Coaching Association from 1964 to 1970 and served as president of the Ohio Collegiate Soccer Officials Association from 1980 to 1988. He received the Honor Award from both the OCSOA and the OCSA. Ersing also officiated soccer for 54 years at the college and high school levels, which earned him induction into the NISOA National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1995 and the Ohio High School Athletic Association Officiating Hall of Fame in 2013.
