The 2007 season marks the 10th season for Eileen Blair as the head coach of the MSU women’s soccer program.

Blair has compiled a 107-60-22 mark, which translates into a .624 winning percentage. During her tenure Montclair has averaged 12 wins per season and her teams have been to the post season seven times. Also, playing in the rugged New Jersey Athletic Conference, Blair’s success is even higher winning games at a nearly percent clip as MSU has captured 49 of the 68 league contests with Blair at the helm.

But Blair’s success goes beyond just the wins and losses.Under her guidance, the women’s soccer team has become a contender on all levels, and its players are now seen as some of the best in the region. In the last six years, there have been seven All-Region players and in 2002, the first All-American in the program’s history as goalkeeper Stephanie Romanko was named Third Team by the National Soccer Coaches Association. Last year alone, Montclair landed six players on the All-NJAC Team and in her tenure Blair has had players earn 51 All-Conference accolades.

Last season was just another successful season for Blair and her squad. The Red Hawks went 13-7-3 and finished 6-1-2 in the NJAC finishing in second place. For the fourth time in the last five seasons MSU reached the conference tournament title game and despite falling in the final, MSU earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament for just the second time in program history. The Red Hawks advanced to the second round before falling in overtime, 1-0. Blair, who would be named the NJAC Coach of the Year for the fourth time, even reached a milestone for herself as she became just the second soccer coach, male or female, in school history to reach the 100-win plateau as Montclair edged Centenary College, 1-0 in September 25th.

Named the fourth head coach in the program’s history in 1998, Blair put together two successive solid seasons,

including a 13-7-1 mark in 1999 that set a then-school record for victories. The following year, she guided Montclair to its finest season to that point as the Red Hawks finished 17-4-2 and won the ECAC Division III Metro Women's Soccer Championship with a 1-0 victory over New York University at Sprague Field. The title was the first for MSU, which was making just its second post-season appearance ever, and Blair was named the 2000 NJAC Coach of the Year.

In 2002, Montclair attained another first as it reached the Championship Game of the New Jersey Athletic Conference and posted a 12-7-2 record. In 2003, for the third consecutive year, MSU advanced to the Championship Game of the ECAC Tournament.

Three years ago added another chapter to Blair’s outstanding success as she led MSU to a 11-7-4 mark (6-0-3 in the last nine games) and a 6-2-0 NJAC record. MSU also won its first New Jersey Athletic Conference playoff title, dethroning five-time defending champion The College of New Jersey in thrilling fashion as the Red Hawks captured the crown in penalty kicks and earned its first NCAA Tournament berth, where the Red Hawks advanced to the second round of the nationals. It should have come as no surprise, then, that Blair was chosen the NJAC Coach of the Year for the second straight season and third time in her career.

Blair is still an active player herself. She played with the New Jersey Wildcats of the USL-W League, an elite national women's semi-pro circuit. Blair was the Wildcats' keeper, and was chosen Player's Player of the Year in both 1998 and 2000, and the Player of the Year in 2001. In May 2000, Blair captained a USA women's soccer team to a gold medal in the 2001 Arafura Games in Darwin, Australia, a bi-annual sporting competition which has grown from humble beginnings back in 1991 into an international event encompassing no less than 31 sports and 28 countries.