Biography:
Entering his 18th year as a coach at Hanover High (three as varsity Assistant and 15 as Head Coach), Rob Grabill has coached youth, recreation and camp soccer since 1970, and began coaching high school soccer in 1974. Grabill has over 20 years of experience as a college coach, and more than 25 as a NISOA and NHIAA referee. Grabill’s Hanover won-lost record is 221-30-14 and he was honored in 2019 as the United Soccer Coaches New Hampshire and New England Coach of the Year. He is a member of the NH Soccer Coaches Association Hall of Fame, and the NH High School Coaches Hall of Fame. In 1979 Grabill was appointed as Head Coach at New Hampshire College, where in nine years he built a program that went on to win an NCAA Division II title. In his final four years at NHC (now Southern NH University), his record was 57-18-5, and his nationally ranked team made two NCAA appearances. He was named New England Division II Coach of the Year three times, and NSCAA Regional College Coach of the Year in 1987. Moving to Hanover in 1989, he was invited by then Dartmouth Coach Bobby Clark to join his staff as Freshman Coach, a position he held for six years. Reverend Grabill is Associate Pastor at the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College, UCC, which includes standing as a Campus Minister with the Tucker Center.