SUNY Cortland Athletics

Colby Gay enters his fourth season as an assistant coach on the Cortland men's soccer coaching staff in 2025. In his three seasons on the staff, the Red Dragons have won two SUNYAC tournament titles and made three appearances in the NCAA Div. III playoffs. Gay was also a part of the coaching staff that garnered both SUNYAC and United Soccer Coaches Region 3 Coaching Staff of the Year honors in 2023. 
 
Gay came to Cortland in the fall of 2022 from the University of Dubuque in Iowa, where he served as an assistant coach from the summer of 2020 through the spring of 2022. He was part of the Spartans’ 2020 (Spring 2021) United Soccer Coaches Association Division III National Coaching Staff of the Year and the North Region Staff of the Year as the team finished 6-1-1 and won the American Rivers Conference title during a COVID-19 adjusted season. In the fall of 2021, Dubuque finished 13-4-1 overall and went 8-0 in league play.
 
A native of Milton, Vt., Gay coached at the Nordic Soccer Club in Essex, Vt., prior to his stint at Dubuque. He coached the Nordic 2007 Premier boys, who were ranked number-one in Vermont by GotSoccer. Gay also has coaching experience at Camp WInadu and the Summit Football Club. At Camp Winadu, he instructed 400-500 athletes for a seven-week program that fostered individual technical, physical and tactical abilities. For the Summit Football Club, Gay served as a volunteer coach from 2016-20, helping lead and coach the club’s technical academy that focused on developing player ball control and technique.
 
Gay is a 2020 graduate of Castleton University in Vermont, where he played soccer for four seasons from 2016-19. He was a captain and four-year starter at midfield, and he registered eight goals and nine assists in 70 games. Castleton won the 2017 North Atlantic Conference title and earned an NCAA tournament berth, losing 1-0 to eventual national champion Messiah in the opening round. Gay was an all-state player at Milton High School, where he served as a team captain and led the league in total goals scored.