Greg Herdlick has served as the head coach of the Rockhurst women’s soccer program since 1999. The Hawks have posted 22 winning seasons under Herdlick, who has an overall record of 270-163-50 (.612). He ranks 20th in victories among active coaches and 31st in all-time victories in NCAA Division II.
Herdlick has guided the Hawks to 164 conference wins and 18 GLVC Tournament appearances. The Hawks won their first GLVC Tournament championship in 2018 in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Herdlick led the Hawks to their first GLVC regular season championship in 2016 and also won the GLVC regular season title in 2022. Rockhurst has made seven NCAA Tournament appearances under his guidance.
Herdlick graduated from Rockhurst in 1993 with a degree in accounting. He was a four-year starter for the Rockhurst soccer team. He was a second-team All-American defender in 1992 and the team captain of the 1993 team. He played in the NAIA national tournament four consecutive years.
Prior to replacing Chico Borja as the women’s head coach at Rockhurst in 1998, Herdlick was an assistant coach for the RU women's team. He was also an assistant coach of the women’s high school teams at Shawnee Mission South and Shawnee Mission East. He helped coach SM East to a Kansas Class 6A state championship and coached Pele’s U20 soccer club to a pair of Kansas state titles and currently coaches the two-time defending Kansas state champions for KC Legends U14 girls.
Herdlick completed his master’s degree in business administration in 1996 at Rockhurst. After spending 25 years in Corporate America, he was hired full-time at Rockhurst in 2021 and just recently assumed additional roles and responsibilities serving as an Assistant Athletic Director for the athletics department.
