Matt Granstrand will enter his third season at the helm of the University of North Dakota women's soccer program. He is the all-time win leader at UND with a career mark of 24-9-3 (.727).
In his first two years at UND, Granstrand has led the team to back-to-back 10-win seasons and two straight appearances in the North Central Conference Postseason Tournament. He took the Sioux to their first NCAA Tournament in 2003.
He was named the Central Region's Coach of the Year as well as the North Central Conference's co-Coach of the Year in 2003.
Granstrand's players have also been decorated at the regional, as well as the national level. In the past two seasons, UND has had two All-American selections, four All-Central Region picks, five All-North Central Conference selections and six Academic All-NCC award winners.
Granstrand became the third women's soccer coach at UND on August 6, 2002.
Prior to accepting the head coaching position at UND, Granstrand served as assistant women's soccer coach at the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Okla.) for four seasons (1999-2002). Before that he served a year as head men's and women's coach at Lakeland College in Sheboygan, Wis., where he led both teams to their best records in school history.
Granstrand was also head coach for two years (1996-97) at Page High School in Franklin, Tenn. He directed the boys' team to the Region V championship in 1997 and was named A/AA Coach of the Year. That same season he led the girls' team to the state's final four and was named District XI Coach of the Year.
Granstrand has also served as head coach of United States Air Force base teams in Shreveport, La., in 1991 and 1992 (Barksdale AFB) and Spokane, Wash., in 1993 and 1994 (Fairchild AFB), and of the Knoxville Metro Rowdies Soccer Club's under-14, under-16 and under-17 boys and girls teams (1988-91).
A 1995 graduate of Eastern Washington University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology, Granstrand began his collegiate playing career at the University of South Carolina-Spartanburg in 1984. He was a freshman starter for the third-ranked Rifles. Granstrand transferred to Maryville (Tenn.) College where he played for two years. Granstrand, who was a two-time captain and MVP, holds the Maryville career record for assists and set the school's single-season assist mark in 1989.
The Brandon, Fla., native played for two years on the Tennessee Men's Select Team (1989-90) in exhibition matches against professional teams. After that, Granstrand spent four seasons with the aforementioned U.S. Air Force base teams.
Granstrand and his wife, Jennifer, have one son, Owen (2).
