Former Lakeland head men’s and women’s soccer head coach Tony Pierce returns to the Muskies in 2025 as an assistant coach with the men’s soccer program.
A veteran of nearly 40 years of coaching including many years as a collegiate head coach, Pierce comes back to Lakeland 13 years after he completed two years as head coach of both the Lakeland men's and women's soccer teams in 2010 and 2011. He led the Muskies men's program to its most recent winning season with an 8-7-3 record in 2011.
Pierce left Lakeland in 2012 to take over the women’s soccer program at Wisconsin Lutheran College, where he coached from 2012-19. Including an earlier stint as coach at WLC from 1996-97, he won 53 games at the school, making him the second-winningest coach in program history.
Pierce has also held head coaching positions at Milwaukee School of Engineering, Concordia University Chicago, and Midland (Texas) College, and served as an assistant at NCAA Division I UW-Green Bay and UW-Milwaukee. He also played for the Milwaukee Wave from 1985-93 and was a three-time all-pro goalkeeper.
Pierce was inducted into the Milwaukee Wave Hall of Fame in 2010 and the Wisconsin Soccer Hall of Fame in 2017. He played collegiately at the University of Connecticut and was a member of an NCAA Division I national championship team in 1981 as well as two national semifinalist teams.
Pierce graduated from Wisconsin Lutheran College in 1998 with a degree in education. He and his wife, Marcia, have three children, Nick, Pearl, and Hanna.
