Staff

In 2026, Brandon Bianco will begin his sixth season as the head men's soccer coach. Since his arrival, Bianco has led the Denison men's soccer program to five-straight double-digit win seasons, and four NCAA tournament appearance in five years. Following a NCAA quarterfinal appearance in 2024, the 2025 team again won 15 games and earned a #1 national ranking for the first time in program history. Following the 2024 season, the Denison men's soccer staff was recognized by the United Soccer Coaches as the Region IV Regional Staff of the Year for the second time in four seasons and earned NCAC Coaching Staff of the Year.  Bianco became the program's ninth head coach in the 68-year history of the program on March 18, 2020.  He came to Denison after seven seasons as the head men’s soccer coach at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. 

Bianco quickly turned around a Case Western Reserve program that was coming off a 3-14-1 season in 2012. By 2018, Bianco had Case playing for a trip to the NCAA Division III Final Four. That season, the Spartans went 16-4-1 and were 5-0 against nationally-ranked opponents during the regular season. CWRU finished the 2018 season ranked seventh in the nation and Bianco and his staff were named the United Soccer Coaches Great Lakes Regional Coaching Staff of the Year. That season, Bianco was named the Ohio Collegiate Soccer Association Men’s Coach of the Year and the University Athletic Association tabbed them with Coaching Staff of the Year accolades.

During his time at Case Western Reserve, Bianco's men’s soccer teams posted a team GPA of 3.30 or better each semester and in 2015-16 his program posted the highest team GPA in Division III at 3.63. From 2015-18 he served on the NCAA Division III Championship committee and from 2017-18 he served as the chair of that committee. He is the current chair of the NCAA Men's and Women's Soccer Playing Rules Committee. 

Bianco is no stranger to Denison or the NCAC. Prior to accepting the head coaching position at Case Western Reserve, he spent five years as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Ohio Wesleyan. A 2007 graduate, he was a four-year letter winner as a midfielder for a Battling Bishop squad that won three NCAC championships and advanced to the NCAA Division III Final Four.

As an assistant coach at Ohio Wesleyan, the program compiled a record of 91-14-20 with five conference titles. In 2011, Ohio Wesleyan won the NCAA Division III men’s soccer national championship. That year he was named the Great Lakes Region Assistant Coach of the Year which spanned all three divisions of the NCAA. The Bishops qualified for the NCAA Division III Tournament in all five seasons with Bianco on board while achieving a No. 1 national ranking on numerous occasions.

Bianco graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in health and human kinetics from Ohio Wesleyan in 2007 and received his Master of Science in Organization Development and Change from Case Western Reserve in 2020.

In addition to his head soccer coaching duties, Bianco serves as an assistant professor in Denison’s Department of Physical Education.