Nick Kotys (April 3, 1913 - July 28, 2005) is an American college and high school soccer coach. At Coral Gables High School near Miami, Florida, he built one of the most dominant high school soccer programs in the history of the state of Florida, winning the country's playoff championships in 1963, 1964, 1967 and 1968, and two state ballot championships in March 1956 and 1958 before the playoff system began. The Coral Gables Cavaliers football team also won five national titles of myths in 1956, 1964, 1967, 1968 and 1969. Kotys retired in 1971 after 20 seasons as head coach of the Cavaliers with a 160-33-9 record - his team won over eighty-one percent of the game they played.
Kotys earned a B.S. in economics and education from Villanova University (1936), before starting his coaching career at Shickshinny, Bloomsburg, and Pottsville, Pennsylvania, where he compiled a thirteen year record of 98 wins, 24 losses and 7 ties. Kotys became the offensive coordinator and backfield coach under head coach Herman Hickman at Yale University in 1949. He left Yale to receive a football head coach and an athletic director position at Coral Gables High School in 1952.
Kotys was inducted into the Florida Sports Hall of Fame in 1984. Thirty-six years after he retired from training, the Athletic High School Association in Florida (FHSAA) named him for the All-Century Team in 2007.
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