Len Renery

Len Renery is a retired English-American professional soccer defender and coach.

Len C. Renery
Personal information
Date of birth (1949-09-11) September 11, 1949
Place of birth London, England
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1968–1971 Columbia Lions
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1972 New Jersey Brewers
1973–1974 New York Cosmos 31 (1)
1975 Baltimore Comets 20 (1)
1976 San Diego Jaws 15 (0)
1977 New York Apollo 18 (1)
1978–1979 California Surf 40 (0)
1979–1980 New York Arrows (indoor) 7 (0)
1980 Detroit Lightning (indoor) 9 (4)
1980 Cleveland Cobras
1980–1981 San Francisco Fog (indoor) 18 (3)
Managerial career
1985–1995 Sacred Heart Preparatory
1997–2007 Menlo College
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Renery moved to the United States when he was 13 years old, lived in Neptune Township, New Jersey and graduated from Neptune High School in 1966, where he was a varsity baseball and soccer player.[1] In 2010, Neptune High School inducted Renery into its Athletics Hall of Fame. [2]

After a prep year at Suffield Academy in Connecticut, Renery entered Columbia University where he played on the men's soccer team from 1968 to 1971.[3] He was a 1969 and 1970 first-team All Ivy.[4] [5] He graduated in 1971 and was inducted into the Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2015.[6]

In 1972, he played for the expansion New Jersey Brewers of the American Soccer League.[7] He signed with the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League in 1973. Renery finished his career in the Major Indoor Soccer League with the San Francisco Fog in 1981.

Photos, newspaper clippings and team jerseys from his years with the ASL, NASL and MISL can be found at NASLJerseys.com.[8]

Renery coached Sacred Heart Preparatory in Atherton, California from 1985 to 1995.[9] In May 1996, he became head coach of the Menlo College men's team.[10] He spent ten years at Menlo.

References
  1. "A player way ahead of his time", Asbury Park Press, September 23, 1992. Accessed October 14, 2018. "'I had a great time back at Neptune High School and the Jersey Shore,' said Renery, who now runs soccer camps in California. 'I was there in the beginning, I guess. I came to Neptune when I was just 13 and I had already been playing for 10 years.'"
  2. Renery Acceptance Speech - Neptune High School Hall of Fame induction ceremony
  3. Columbia Lions men's soccer letterwinners
  4. "Men's Ivy League Outstanding Performers". Archived from the original on 2008-12-06. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
  5. Hall of Fame Series: Len Renery ’71CC and Amr Aly ’85CC
  6. The Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame
  7. The Year in American Soccer - 1972
  8. Len Renery - NASL Jerseys.com
  9. Knicks' New Coach Has Local Ties
  10. Sports Shorts
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