Carl Contrascier enters his fifth season as an assistant coach for the Vikings men’s soccer program. His primary duties with the men’s team are working with the goalkeepers. In addition to working with the men, Contrascier serves as the associate head coach of the Cleveland State women’s team.

Contrascier assisted the Vikings to an 11-4-5 overall record and a 5-1-3 mark in league matches during the 2022 season. The Vikings won their first-ever Horizon League Regular Season Championship and hosted the tournament on Krenzler Field for the first time. Cleveland State won their second Horizon League Tournament Championship on the ten-year anniversary of the program’s first after blanking IUPUI 3-0.

Cleveland State appeared in NCAA Tournament, falling on the road at the University of Pitt. 2-1. On the year at home, Cleveland State was 6-1-3 with two of those games against NCAA Top 25 opponents (No. 8 Marshall and No. 13 Ohio State).

In the fall 2021 season, Contrascier helped the Vikings to a program-best eight Horizon League victories, including a perfect 5-0 mark on Krenzler Field. With their 8-2 league record, the Green and White earned the No. 2 seed in the tournament, advancing to the Championship Game for the first time since 2012.

During the abbreviated spring 2021 season, Contrascier helped the Vikings to four victories which all came by shutout.

In his first season on staff, Contrascier helped the Vikings to a number of notable results as the program posted its best winning percentage in four years during the 2019 campaign.

In the season opener, CSU rallied from a two-goal deficit to earn a result at nationally-ranked Louisville. The team’s first road victory was also a big one as it came courtesy of a 3-2 win at Ohio State, the second straight year that the  Vikings toppled the Buckeyes. In the final match of October, Cleveland State posted a come-from-behind win over 2018 national finalist Akron, CSU’s first win over the Zips in nine years.

Contrascier helped the Vikings to notable successes on the defensive end of the pitch in 2019. Cleveland State allowed the fewest goals in the Horizon League, conceding just 17 times in 15 matches, despite starting a true freshman goalkeeper for the entirety of the campaign.

Contrascier’s work with freshman Omeed Naeemy helped the latter earn Horizon League All-Freshmen Team accolades, the only CSU goalkeeper to achieve the feat last decade. With Contrascier’s help, Naeemy led the league, and ranked among the top 30 in Division I, with his .788 save percentage, while also posting a 1.10 goals-against mark. Naeemy tied a Horizon League single-match record when he made 16 saves at UIC when the Vikings were reduced to 10 men, the most by an HL keeper in over 30 years.

Contrascier is also entering his sixth season as an assistant coach for the CSU women’s program. He helped the Viking women to their best-ever season in 2018, as the squad reached the Horizon League Tournament championship match for the first time while netting a school-record 11 wins.

Contrascier was hired at Cleveland State after spending two seasons as an assistant at John Carroll.

Contrascier spent the 2013 season as a volunteer assistant and was an assistant coach with the JCU women’s team in 2014 while also serving as the men’s goalkeeper coach. In his two seasons with the JCU women’s squad, Contrascier helped the Blue Streaks to 21 wins, including a co-regular season title in 2013 and a spot in the OAC Tournament championship.

In his lone season with the JCU men, Contrascier was part of a squad that posted a 17-4 record, including a perfect 9-0 mark in conference play before falling in the tournament title match.

A three-year starter as a goalkeeper at JCU, Contrascier played in the second most games (48) as a goalkeeper in program history. His 27 wins rank third all-time and his 193 saves are fourth all-time in JCU history. He posted a 1.24 goals against average for his career, ranking ninth in school history.

As a senior in 2012, Contrascier was a second-team All-OAC selection and an Academic All-Ohio pick. He was a second-team all-league honoree in 2011 and made 85 saves, the third most in a season in school history.

A native of Hinckley, Ohio, Contrascier graduated from John Carroll in 2013 with a degree in history.