The Rivier Men’s Soccer team will be under new management this fall with Bill Lawler taking over as the Raiders’ head coach.  Lawler leaves Daniel Webster College where he has spent the last four years as head coach of the Eagles.  At Daniel Webster, Coach Lawler has been in charge of a complete program turnaround winning the New England Collegiate Conference Championship in 2009 and 2010 and culminating in a trip to the NCAA National Tournament last fall. 

Before arriving at Daniel Webster College, Coach Lawler spent one season as the Head Coach of Manhattanville College and worked as an assistant at Dartmouth College, George Mason University, Skidmore, and Babson, his alma mater.  .

 Lawler is a 1998 graduate of Babson College where he was a standout goalkeeper with the Beavers program and was named Constitution Athletic Conference Goalkeeper of the Year in both 1996 and 1997. Lawler backstopped Babson to successive ECAC New England championship appearances in 1996 and 1997, earning tournament MVP honors as Babson won the 1997 title.   After graduation, the Harvard, Mass. native played professionally with the Worcester Wildfire of the A-League in 1998, the Rhode Island Stingrays of the USISL in 1999, and the New Hampshire Phantoms of the USISL in 2000.