Tony Vu
Tony Vu
Title: Assistant Coach
Phone: (843) 383-8203
Email: tony.vu@coker.edu

Tony Vu joined the Coker University men's and women's soccer staff in July 2022. 

In his first year as the Graduate Assistant Coach for Coker Men's Soccer, Vu helped bring in a record of 6-2-9 overall and 5-0-6 in South Atlantic Conference play with a South Atlantic Conference post-season appearance against LMU. During the 2022-23 season, sophomore goalkeeper Jasper Rump possessed a 0.81 GAA (the fewest since 2013-2014), 6 shutouts (the most since 2011-2012), and the fewest goals allowed in the overall regular season (14) in program history. Vu helped coach seven SAC All-Conference players: Jasper Rump, Gustavo Palmieri, Celestin Blondel, Che Richards, Matty Tricker, Frederic Benedix, and Nikola Sotra.

During the 2022-23 Women's Soccer season, the program enjoyed its best season in 7 years with a record of 4-8-3 and being the last of three NCAA Division II teams to not concede a goal in its first 5 games. Vu guided Coker senior goalkeeper Sarah Swaim to a 1.40 GAA (the fewest since 1993-1994), 7 shutouts (the most since 1993-1994), and the fewest goals allowed in the S.A.C. regular season in program history (21). Under Vu’s tutelage her senior season, Swaim reached 3rd all-time in career shutouts (9) and 4th all-time in career saves (346) among Coker Women’s Soccer goalkeepers. Vu helped coach one SAC All-Conference Third Team player, Nour Noujhaim.

Coker Men’s Soccer finished #2 nationally among all NCAA Division II men’s soccer programs in volunteering hours, and Coker Women’s Soccer finished #3 nationally among all NCAA Division II women’s soccer programs in volunteering hours.

Vu is currently an Assistant Coach and Goalkeeper Coach with the Florida Olympic Development Program. 

Vu comes to Coker from the Leg-A-Z Soccer Academy in Gainesville, Fla., where he was the Director of Goalkeeping, an Assistant Coach for the UPSL team, and helped Leg-A-Z win 4 Florida State Cup championships since 2012. Vu has also spent time with P.K. Yonge High School women's soccer and with the University of Florida club men's soccer team. 

He holds a United States Soccer Federation "C" License, a Scottish Football Association Goalkeeping Coaching 1.2 Certificate, and a United Soccer Coaches Goalkeeping Level 3 Diploma. 

Vu holds a Bachelor of Science in Family, Youth, and Community Service from the University of Florida (2017).