TOTTY O. TOTTY
Women's Head Soccer Coach









  A three-time NCAA Division II All-American, a member of an NCAA Division II National Championship squad and a former player on the Nigerian National team, Totty O. Totty recently begins his 10th season as head coach of the Clayton State University women’s soccer program.

Over the last three seasons, Clayton State has enjoyed its best success in women’s soccer under Totty.

Last season, the Lakers overcame a rash of injuries and a 1-6 start to finish 10-8 overall and third place in the Peach Belt Conference. In fact, Clayton State finished the regular season with six straight victories and eight victories in its final nine games. Six of those victories were shutouts.

The Lakers went a remarkable 15-2-3 in the the 2005 season - the best season in program history - sweeping both the Peach Belt regular season and tournament championships. In addition, Clayton State advanced to the NCAA Division II National Tournament for a second straight season.

The Clayton State program turned the corner in 2004 as Totty led the squad to a 13-6-1 record, its first appearance in the NCAA Division II National Tournament and a runner-up finish in the Peach Belt Conference Tournament. Arguably the biggest win in school history was in the 2004 season, as the Lakers toppled the defending NCAA Division II national champion - Kennesaw State.

Totty took over the women’s program at Clayton State in the summer of 1998, inheriting a Laker program that was only 13-32-1 in its first three seasons of intercollegiate women’s soccer. After three seasons of building the program’s base, Totty sparked Clayton State to its first back-to-back winning seasons with marks of 11-7 in 2001 and 11-4-4 in 2002.

During that 2002 season, the Lakers upset nationally-ranked teams Francis Marion and North Florida, marking the first time in program history that Clayton State defeated a nationally-ranked team.

Overall, Totty has posted a 85-71-11 mark at Clayton State, making him the winningest head coach in women’s soccer at Clayton State. In addition, he’s coached the first two All-Americans in the history of Laker women’s soccer - Nkiru Okosieme and Olaitan Yusuf - plus six All-Region selections and nine All-Peach Belt Conference players.

Totty, a three-time All-America and four-time All-New England Athletic Conference selection at New Hampshire College (now University of Southern New Hampshire), led the Penmen to the NCAA Division II national championship in 1989 under former Clayton State men’s head coach John Rootes. He went on to play for the Nigerian National Team and played in Nigeria’s qualifying matches for the 1990 World Cup.

Totty received the honor of being inducted into the New Hampshire College Athletic Hall of Fame in 2000.

Prior to his arrival at Clayton State, Totty served as Director of Coaching for the Amherst (N.H.) Soccer Club for two years and was an eight-year veteran of the John Rootes Soccer School at New Hampshire College. He was also an assistant coach for the New Hampshire College women’s team for three seasons, helping lead New Hampshire to a 13-5-2 mark in 1996 with the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference championship and a #23 ranking in the final Division II Top 25 poll.

Totty, who holds a United States Soccer Federation "B" License, received a bachelor’s degree in business communication in 1993 and a master’s degree in international business in 1995 from Southern New Hampshire.