Entering 2018 season
Canada West Championships: 1997, ‘01, ‘10, ‘12, ‘13, '15, '17
U SPORTS Championships: ‘05, ‘07, ‘12, ‘13
Canada West Coach of the Year: 2009, ‘13, '15
U SPORTS Coach of the Year: 2013
Conference record: 174-50-52
Canada West playoff record: 27-17
U SPORTS championship record: 23-7
Mike Mosher continues to build on his legacy of success as he enters his 23rd season as the head coach of the most decorated men’s soccer program in the history of U SPORTS. He has guided the UBC Thunderbirds to four national titles (2005, 2007, 2012, and 2013) and owns an incredible 23-7 record in games played at the U SPORTS Men’s Soccer Championship tournament. He was the team’s assistant in 1994 but served as the head coach at that year’s nationals, and led the T-Birds to the Canadian title.
Last season, Mosher’s squad won the school’s 18th Canada West conference championship on home turf at Thunderbird Stadium. Down 2-0 in the final, UBC came all the way back to beat Trinity Western 3-2 in double overtime. That win clinched the team’s fifth appearance at the U SPORTS national tournament in six years. The T-Birds placed fourth with a young roster that didn’t feature any fifth-year seniors.
In the summer of 2017, UBC embarked on a cross-Pacific trip to play in the World Elite University Football Tournament at Tsing’hua University in Beijing, China. The Thunderbirds were able to defeat the likes of Oxford and Peking before ultimately claiming the tournament’s silver medal.
Mosher crossed the milestone of 200 regular season and playoff wins as UBC’s coach early in the 2016 season, which saw the Thunderbirds place second in the Canada West before placing fifth in the U SPORTS Men’s Soccer Championship.
Mosher was the U SPORTS Coach of the Year in 2013 and the Canada West Coach of the Year on three different occasions (2009, '13 and '15).
Mosher's 2013 conference and national championship-winning squad won the school's 13th U SPORTS title and was named Sport BC's Team of the Year, while the 2012 team went undefeated in non-conference, Canada West and playoff action to become the best in the nation.
In 2010, the T-Birds won their third Canada West championship under Mosher’s direction. The squad then went on to collect a silver medal at the U SPORTS Championship. For his efforts, Mosher was named the Adult Coach of the Year by BC Soccer.
Internationally, Mosher served as Canada’s head coach at the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia, as well as an assistant with the 2007 squad that competed in Thailand.
As a player with UBC, Mosher was a T-Bird for five years, during which time he contributed to three national championship runs in 1989, ‘90 and ‘91. He was named Most Valuable Player of the 1989 gold-medal squad that won the national banner at Thunderbird Stadium, and was also a U SPORTS All-Canadian in 1990. He’s already in the UBC Sports Hall of Fame as the 1989-91 teams were enshrined in 2013.
Mosher also played four years with the Canadian Olympic team and spent four seasons in the Canadian Soccer League with the Edmonton Brickmen and the Winnipeg Fury.
Mosher has won a total of 13 national titles in his playing and coaching career. He has claimed eight at UBC, three as a player and five as a coach, and five more as a player comprised of two senior men’s club crowns, one Under-18 national title, and two U-18 all-star triumphs.
A UBC physical education graduate, he also completed his master’s degree in arts at UBC, specializing in sport management.
