Tobias Bischof is entering his eighth season on the Hofstra staff in 2018 and was promoted to the role of Associate Head Coach in December 2014.
Bischof spent the previous four seasons from 2011-14 as an assistant coach, where he helped the Pride win the 2012 Colonial Athletic Association championship and earn two appearances in the CAA Tournament finals.
Since Bischof’s arrival on campus, Hofstra has compiled a 82-47-11 record and has notched a winning season in every campaign. Under his tutelage, Leah Galton won three consecutive CAA Player of the Year awards from 2013-15 and earned All-America honors, Sam Scolarici set program records for goals and assists, and Kristin Desmond was named the CAA Player of the Year and a third-team All-American in 2017.
Hofstra has qualified for the CAA Tournament in seven of the eight seasons since Bischof joined the staff and has advanced to the NCAA Tournament three times, in 2012, 2015 and 2017. The 2012 team tallied an 11-9-2 overall record, winning the CAA title and a NCAA berth as the fifth seed in the conference tournament. In 2015, the Pride earned a No. 1 seed in the CAA Tournament but fell to eventual conference champion James Madison in the semifinals. Hofstra earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, defeating Georgetown in a penalty shootout in the first round before falling to Rutgers in the second round. The Pride finished 10-6-3 in 2013 and 13-7-1 with an appearance in the league's championship game in 2014. Hofstra reclaimed the CAA Championship in 2017, going a perfect 9-0 in CAA play to earn the regular-season title as well, finishing the season with a 15-4-2 record.
Off the field, Bischof has helped the Pride become one of the top academic programs in the CAA. In 2017-18, Hofstra Women's Soccer earned a CAA Team Academic Excellence Award as the women's soccer program with the best team GPA in the conference. The team also posted a department-best 3.68 GPA in Spring 2018. Under Bischof's guidance, Madeline Anderson was named a United Soccer Coaches Academic All-American.
In the summer of 2015, Bischof led the club team Massapequa Arsenal to the McGuire Cup as the national champion in the Boys Under-19 division at the U.S. Youth Soccer Nationals in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The McGuire Cup has been contested since 1935 and is billed as the oldest trophy in youth sports.
Bischof came to Hofstra in 2011 after a decade of prominent involvement in Long Island soccer, particularly at the youth level. A well-respected coach with a history of success, Bischof has coached in the Elite Clubs National League (ECNL) and in the U.S. Club Soccer National Premier Leagues (NPL), where he took a U16 boys team to the National Final in 2012. Bischof had tremendous success with his youth programs, leading two U-15 teams - the East Meadow Sparks U-15 Girls and the Massapequa Arsenal U-15 Boys - to state championships in the New York State Open Cup during the summer of 2011. Overall, he has coached winners of six state cups and led 11 teams to the state finals between 2006 and 2016. In 2018, he had a pair of teams reach the national playoffs, with his U16 team winning the ECNL Showcase Cup. He has also coached in the Region 1 Premier League and North East Regional Premier League. He has helped in the development of players into youth national players and high school all-American selections.
In addition, Bischof has run a select coaching program to prepare athletes for collegiate soccer; helping to place dozens of his youth players into college programs. He served as the Select PDP program administrator for the Long Island Junior Soccer League (LIJSL), a program that included more than 500 players.
A native of Winterstein, Germany, Bischof played soccer in his native country after graduating from high school. In 1997, he enrolled at Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany, where he earned a master’s degree in sports science, finishing in the top 10 percent of his class. He also coached youth soccer in Germany, primarily with 16- and 17-year-olds, before coming to the United States.
Bischof first moved to Long Island in 2002. He worked with the Long Island Rough Riders of the Premier Development League (PDL) after Globall Soccer purchased the team.
Bischof holds a UEFA B-level license. He currently resides in Long Beach, New York.
