Bob Winch joined the athletic staff at Brevard College on Dec. 9, 2016 and accepted the role of men’s and women’s golf coach along with being named as the Tornado’s men’s soccer coach. 

While it is Winch’s first experience as a golf head coach, he competed for two seasons on the men’s golf team at UNC Pembroke, while in undergrad, and worked in the industry at Kiawah Island in Charleston, S.C.

Winch, a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania, inherits a Brevard program fresh off of its best season in the program’s history (8-8-3) — including a South Atlantic Conference quarterfinal win over No. 1 Wingate University and a trip to the SAC semifinal against Lincoln Memorial University.

Prior to accepting the position at Brevard, Winch was the assistant women’s soccer coach at Division III Brandeis University in Boston, Mass. He was instrumental in guiding Brandeis to a 13-3-3 record, which culminated in a trip to the NCAA Final Four.

After a successful stretch at UCF, Winch served for one year as the assistant women’s soccer coach at Auburn University, before moving on to coach The Citadel from 2006-2016. While at The Citadel, Winch was named the Southern Conference Women’s Coach of the Year in 2009 and 2010. 

Following a four-year stay at Clemson, Winch began a 13-year stint (1993-2005) as the head men’s soccer coach at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, where he was selected as coach of the year on four separate occasions in 1993, 1996, 2002 and 2004. During his time with the Knights, Winch compiled a 31-8-3 conference record from 2001-2004, including four conference championships and three Division I National Tournament appearances.

Winch began his coaching career with a one-year stint at Central Connecticut State University, where he served as the assistant men’s soccer coach. Winch would then move on to Manchester Junior College for a year as the head men’s soccer coach, before taking his talents to the Division I level at Clemson University from 1990 to 1993, where he served as the assistant men’s soccer coach.