Steve Domin coached the Carthage College men's soccer team for 27 years and owns a career 288-195-42 record with the program. He served Carthage as Director of Soccer Operations, the head men’s and women’s soccer coach, and instructor in the Exercise and Sport Science Department at different points over the years. His guidance made each program consistent winners.
Domin brought enthusiasm and a tireless work ethic to the lakeshore campus, helping him earn College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Coach of the Year honors on several occasions. Domin was named CCIW/Joe Bean “Men’s Soccer Coach of the Year” in 1996, 2007, 2011, 2016 and 2018. His 2007, 2011, and 2016 teams won outright CCIW titles, while his 2008, 2011, 2015, 2016 and 2018 teams won CCIW Tournament Titles and all qualified for the NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer Championships. In Domin’s tenure, the Carthage men’s team qualified for the CCIW Men’s Soccer Tournament 15 times out of 18 years since the event's inception, including 10 in a row from 2004 to 2013. In 2018, he became the first five-time recipient of the Conference Coach of the Year award, the most in CCIW history.
Domin holds a combined 416-254-51 overall record between both men's and women's programs. Under his direction, Carthage produced more than 100 All-CCIW performers, 78 All-State of Wisconsin Collegiate performers, 32 all-region players, three National Soccer Coaches Association of America All-Americans, multiple conference championships and multiple CCIW Player of the Year honors. In 2011, 2015, 2016, and spring of 2021, Domin was named the the Wisconsin Men's Collegiate Coach of the Year. He's coached two Wisconsin Players of the Year, and three CCIW Players of the Year.
Carthage teams were ranked in the top-10 by the NSCAA regional & national committees on several occasions (1996, 1997, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, and 2021), and had competed in the NCAA Division III Men's Soccer Championships. In 2014, Domin and the men’s soccer team eclipsed the 200 win plateau defeating perennial power Wheaton College (the NCAA national runner-up), and is one of a handful of coaches to have surpassed 400 NCAA wins combined.
Domin is one of the coaching directors for the Kenosha-area select club programs. He holds an advanced NSCAA national license and a “USSF” national coaching license, and has served on the NCAA Men’s & Women’s Championship Selection Committee.
Carthage annually traveled to top soccer destinations across the U.S., competing and training with elite teams and programs at the MLS, NCAA Division I & II, academy, and professional levels. Many Carthage soccer payers have been featured on PDL and USL soccer teams. In June 2017, defender Giles Phillips (2015-16) signed with the Queens Park Rangers, one of Europe's storied professional teams.
While coaching the men’s team, Domin also coached the Carthage women’s soccer team from 1995 to 2004, compiling a 130-59-9 record in 10 years (.679 winning percentage, ranked 35th all-time in NCAA Division III), winning a CCIW championship in 2001 and earning conference “co-coach of the year” honors. In 2004, Domin engineered the largest CCIW program turn-around with a record of 16-5 and 6-1 in league play. The 2001 team he coached still stands as tops with a 17-2 overall record in the NCAA.
Domin is a native of Naperville, Ill., where he attended Naperville North High School and was named
Daily Herald all-state in baseball, and played varsity soccer for legendary coach Dave Bucher. He graduated from Carthage in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in both exercise and sport science and business administration. He received his master’s in education with a specialization in guidance and counseling, also from Carthage, in 1995.
Domin played for the Naperville Soccer Association and stints with the Chicago Magic Soccer Club before playing and captaining Carthage’s 1991-93 soccer teams. He also had a four-year playing career for the Carthage baseball team. A two-year team captain, he compiled a .332 career batting average as the team’s second baseman and was named to the NCAA Central Region all-tournament team as both a junior and senior. He holds a Carthage career record with only 24 strikeouts in over 450 at bats (highlighted in the NCAA as the “toughest to strike out” category), batted .414 in 1992, .404 in 1993 and was part of Carthage’s first team in the national championship.
Domin coached the men's and women's soccer, baseball, and softball teams, and was a graduate assistant, manager, or game support staffer in football, basketball, swimming and track & field at Carthage.
Domin and his wife Stephanie, the Carthage women’s coach for both cross country and track and field, live in Pleasant Prairie, Wis., with their sons Ty and T.J. Domin is extremly active in the community, serving on the YMCA Board of Directors, KASL Board of Directors, provides partnerships and sponsorships at the Boys and Girls Club of Kenosha, and is diligent with committees on campus.
