Entering her 25th season with Auburn's soccer team, Karen Hoppa is officially the longest-tenured head coach on The Plains.
Published:AUBURN, AL - AUGUST 17 - Auburn Head Coach Karen Hoppa during the game between the Auburn Tigers and the Samford Bulldogs at Auburn Soccer Complex in Auburn, AL on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Photo by Zach Bland/Auburn TigersAuburn soccer head coach Karen Hoppa has been at the helm of the Tigers’ soccer program longer than most of Auburn University’s current undergrad students have been alive.
Following a season-opening scoreless tie with Samford Thursday night at the Auburn Soccer Complex, Hoppa’s record at Auburn is 272-181-52 — a mark that has turned the Tigers into an SEC power. Auburn’s 272 wins in 24 seasons ranks as the fifth-highest clip in the SEC since 1999 and the second-highest in the SEC’s western division.It goes without saying that Hoppa has seen Auburn change tremendously in the 25 years that she and the soccer program have been synonymous with each other.
Remaining consistent through all the change, however, has been the Auburn Soccer Complex, which was built in 1994., Cohen said Auburn’s soccer stadium wasn’t good enough. “Having an AD that’s been a head coach is rare these days. It used to always be that way in the early part of my career. But that’s rare now,” Hoppa explained. “Obviously that’s great for us. It’s almost as if we speak the same language.”The current bleachers at the Auburn Soccer Complex came from Auburn baseball’s Plainsman Park and arrived to the Tigers’ soccer pitch bent and were “kinda straightened out”, Hoppa says.
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