Assistant Coach Mike Randall (4th season)
High School: Cherry Hill East
College: Rutgers University-Camden (2015)
Major: Criminal Justice
Minor: National Security Studies
One of the all-time great goalkeepers in Rutgers-Camden men’s soccer history, Mike Randall returns to the program for his fourth season as an assistant coach. Randall coached with the Scarlet Raptors during the 2014 and 2015 seasons after finishing his collegiate eligibility in 2013. He rejoined the coaching staff for the 2021 season.
Randall played a major role in making that 2013 season the greatest campaign in program history. Rutgers-Camden posted a 23-1-2 record, won their third straight New Jersey Athletic Conference title and advanced to the NCAA Division III championship game before losing in double-overtime against Messiah. The team set program records with a 25-game undefeated streak during the season and a two-year unbeaten string of 37 games, the eighth-longest string in Division III history. Those strings included a pair of 11-game winning streaks, setting records for the longest in program history. The Raptors finished the season ranked No. 2 in both the
D3soccer.com and NSCAA Division III national polls, their highest ranking ever.
Randall was a huge part of that success, playing every minute of every game in goal to set a single-season program goalie mark of 2,398:17 minutes. He also faced 349 shots, the second-highest season total in program history, set a program mark with 12 shutouts and posted a 0.75 goals-against average, the team’s fifth-highest single-season mark ever. His 23 victories were four more than the previous season record for goalies. He was named the
D3soccer.com Goalkeeper of the Year and a First Team All-American.
Despite starting only two of his four seasons at Rutgers-Camden, Randall ranks among the program’s all-time goalie leaders with a 0.73 career goals-against average (first), an .851 save percentage (second), 40 wins (third), 21 shutouts (third), 560 shots faced (fifth), five ties (fifth) and 4,446:09 minutes played in goal (seventh).
In addition to his
D3soccer.com national honors in 2013, Randall earned NJAC Second Team recognition and was recognized as the Scarlet Raptors’ Most Dedicated Player, earning the prestigious Borda-Sheehan Memorial Award. During the season he was a three-time winner as the NJAC Defensive Player of the Week (Sept. 9, Oct. 7 and Oct. 28) and also captured honors as the ECAC Metro Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 10.
Randall’s brilliant senior season followed his outstanding junior year, when he started all 22 games and led the Raptors to their second straight NJAC title. He posted a 0.72 GAA (the third-best single-season mark in program history), nine shutouts (tied for fourth), a 17-2-3 record (third for goalie wins) and made 76 saves. He was named All-NJAC Honorable Mention, captured NJAC Defensive Player of the Week honors on both Nov. 5 and Nov. 12 and earned a berth on the Scarlet Raptors’ own Cialella Soccer Classic all-tournament team (Sept. 8-9, 2012).
Prior to his junior season, Randall appeared in one game during both his freshman and sophomore seasons as the understudy to Raptor All-American goalie Tim VanLiew. When Randall started the 2012 season opener, in fact, he became the first goalie besides VanLiew to start for Rutgers-Camden since Brent Grunow on Nov. 11, 2007.
A soccer and volleyball letterman at Cherry Hill High School East, Randall earned numerous scholastic soccer honors for Coach Karl Moehlmann. During his senior season in 2009 he notched All-South Jersey First Team honors from the
Courier-Post newspaper and added All-Group 4 recognition. He also was named First Team All-Olympic Conference American Division, First Team All-South Jersey by the South Jersey Soccer Coaches Association and was recognized with an All-State Top 10 Goalkeepers honor. In addition, he was an Honor Roll student.
A Criminal Justice major with a Minor in National Security Studies, Randall graduated from Rutgers-Camden in January, 2015.
