Jim Barlow is a

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coach who has been the head coach of the

Princeton Tigers men's soccer The Princeton Tigers men's soccer team is an intercollegiate varsity sports team of Princeton University. The team is a member of the Ivy League of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The team is one of the oldest active soccer clubs i ...

team since 1996. At Princeton, Barlow is the winningest men's soccer coach in school history and has led the team to five

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titles and five NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament berths. Raised in

Hightstown, New Jersey Hightstown is a Borough (New Jersey), borough in Mercer County, New Jersey, Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Nestled within the Raritan River, Raritan Valley region, Hightstown is an historic, commercial, and cultural hub of Cent ...

, Barlow was a soccer star at

Hightstown High School Hightstown High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades comprised of three communities in Mercer County and Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as part ...

, where he was named as Player of the Year by the New Jersey Soccer Coaches Association in 1986 and chosen as part of the Parade All-America soccer team in 1987. He played soccer at Princeton, graduating in 1991 with a degree in history. At Princeton, he was named as Ivy League Player of the Year in 1990, the first Tigers athlete to win the Ivy League's top soccer honor. Barlow was chosen as the head coach of the Princeton men's soccer team in 1996, at the age of 26, to succeed

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, who left to join the coaching staff of

D.C. United D.C. United is an American professional soccer club based in Washington, D.C. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conference. Domestically, the club has won four MLS Cups (league championships), four Supp ...

. As head coach, Barlow has a cumulative record of 188-161-63 through the 2020 season, the most of any men's soccer coach in Princeton history. His teams have won the Ivy League title in 1999, 2001, 2010, 2014 and 2018. He has led his squad to the NCAA Division I Soccer Tournament in 1999, 2001, 2009, 2010 and 2018, losing in the first round in each of those five years.Jim Barlow

. Accessed January 11, 2021. Barlow was named by the

as its coach of the year in 2018."Men's Soccer All-Ivy, Postseason Award Winners Announced"

, November 14, 2018. Accessed January 11, 2021. "Princeton head coach Jim Barlow was dubbed Coach of the Year. Barlow led the Tigers to their first Ivy League title since 2014 and ninth title in program history."

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