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Luis Gendive
Title: Head Coach
Phone: 202.651.5603

Coach Luis Gendive returns to Gallaudet University in 2010 to take over as head coach, a position he held for two seasons in 2005 and 2006. Gendive was also an assistant coach for the Bison in 2004. The 2010 season will be his third at Gallaudet.

In fact the last time Gallaudet won a game it came under Gendive's watch in October of 2006. Gendive's career record as a head coach at Gallaudet is 4-34-1 in two seasons. He also coached Gallaudet's last all-conference honoree in Matthew Eby, who was named to the All-Capital Athletic Conference second team for three straight seasons (2004, '05, '06).

Gendive has spent eight years working for the Arlington Travel Soccer Club which overseas boy's and girl's soccer development from the ages 9 to 19. In 2006, he was named ATSC Coach of the Year. He is also the head coach of the Thomas Jefferson High School girl's soccer team where he will enter his third season at the helm this spring. He spent 12 years coaching in his native homeland of Madrid, Spain, where he coached the EF Juventud Madrid program, the sister school to Real Madrid. His team was ranked in the top 10 in the Madrid area for U-15. Gendive has been an assistant coach for the U-16 Northern Virginia boy's soccer Olympic Development Program in 2001 and '05. In the summers he is the program director for the Moravek Soccer School.

Gendive's message to the returning players from the 2009 team and anybody interested in joining the Bison program is simple.

"You are representing Gallaudet University every time you wear the Bison jersey. You need to give your best. Period. This is your school. This is your chance to play at the collegiate level. We are eager to add new student-athletes who can bring what we are missing," said Gendive. "We need to give it our all at all practices and games. We can't look up at the scoreboard and give up, if we are losing. We can't forget we are a team and we all need to work together to accomplish our goals."

Gendive currently resides in Falls Church, Va., with his wife Peggy, who is a Spanish teacher at Thomas Jefferson High School.