Midway University

Stu Riddle was named the second full-time Midway men's soccer coach on Dec. 16, 2024.

Riddle comes to Midway with more than 15 years of experience as an NCAA Division-I coach. This includes head-coaching stops at Western Michigan, Buffalo (N.Y.) and Northern Kentucky, where he made a habit of orchestrating quick turnarounds. 
 
In 2024 while the assistant coach at Bowling Green State University, Riddle was a crucial part of the team's scouting and recruiting efforts, coached a MAC Hermann semifinalist, an MLS SuperDraft selection, two All-Americans, two All-Region players, five All-Conference players that included the Conference Defensive Player of the Year, three All-Tournament players, six Conference Player of the Week award winners, four appearances on TopDrawerSoccer Team of the Week, two TopDrawerSoccer Midseason Top 100 Honorees, and six CSC Academic All-District Players. In addition, the program earned a conference championship game appearance, which was the team's first MVC championship match. 
 
Riddle had successful head-coaching stints at both Western Michigan and Buffalo in the MAC, as well as at Northern Kentucky. He was the 2020 Horizon League Coach of the Year at the latter school, after guiding the Norse to the league regular-season championship and the program's first national ranking at the Division I level.
 
Additionally, his NKU clubs recorded just the second and third winning seasons in the Division-I history of the program, and Riddle recorded the most wins in school history (37) of any head coach at that level of competition.
 
Prior to NKU, Riddle served as the head men's soccer coach at the University at Buffalo from 2013 until the school eliminated the program for budgetary reasons after the 2016 season. Riddle and the Bulls increased the team's win total every year, going from three wins in his initial campaign to 12 victories in his final season.
 
Riddle's last two seasons at UB saw him lead the Bulls to back-to-back appearances in the MAC Tournament's championship match. The 2016 club finished with a 12-4-3 record and received votes in the NCAA Division I Poll for five consecutive weeks.
 
His overall record of 28-32-13 with the Bulls included a record of 19-11-7 over his final two seasons.
 
Riddle went to UB after a four-year stint at Western Michigan, where he led the Broncos to a pair of MAC Tournament runner-up finishes in 2010 and '11. WMU posted a pair of double-digit win totals during his time in Kalamazoo, and his squads excelled not only on the pitch, but in the classroom as well. The 2012 Broncos had the second-highest team GPA in the nation among Division-I men's soccer programs.
 
Over his career, seven of his teams earned a team GPA of at least 3.25.
 
Riddle's resume also includes a head-coaching stint at D'Youville University in Buffalo, N.Y., along with college assistant coaching tenures at Coastal Carolina, Southern Indiana, Evansville and Fairfield. In 2008, his lone season at Fairfield, he helped the Stags win the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Tournament championship and advanced to the NCAA Tournament.
 
Riddle played collegiately at Coastal Carolina, where he was a two-time team MVP and was named to the All-Big South Conference Team in both 1997 and '98.
 
He signed with New Zealand's first-ever professional soccer team, the Football Kingz, in 1999. In addition to New Zealand, Riddle played professionally in England (Oxford City), Scotland (Greenock Morton) and Australia (Altona Magic).
 
Riddle also played in the United States with the Des Moines Menace and West Michigan Edge of the PDL.
 
Riddle was born in Luton, England, and raised in Wellington, New Zealand. He earned four caps for the 1996 New Zealand national team during Olympic qualifying.
 
On Aug. 16, 2011, he was sworn in as a naturalized U.S. citizen during an oath ceremony in Grand Rapids, Mich.
 
Riddle earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education from Coastal Carolina in 1998. He earned his Master of Science in Public Administration from Evansville in 2007.