With credentials that have reached legendary proportions, Horst Richardson celebrates his 47th season as head coach of the Colorado College men's soccer team in 2012. No other coach at CC, in any sport, ever has come close to matching his remarkable duration on the sideline.

Since taking control of the program in 1966, Richardson has compiled a distinguished record of 524 victories, 289 defeats and 64 ties. He has taken the Tigers to the NCAA playoffs 18 times, and guided them to six conference championships in the old Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Soccer League. Heading into the 2012 campaign, CC’s sixth as a member of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, Richardson ranks fourth nationwide among active Division III men’s soccer coaches with his 524 career victories.  

Now retired from his former position in the college's German department (1965-2006), Richardson has earned NCAA regional coach-of-the-year honors four times. In 1998, at the National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s annual convention, he was one of five recipients of an NSCAA Letter of Commendation. He also received the NSCAA’s prestigious Bill Jeffrey Award, for longtime achievement in college soccer, in 2001. In 2006 he was recognized by the Colorado Springs Sports Corporation as winner of the F. Don Miller Award for his commitment to athletics in the local community.

Before going 7-9-2 in 2010, the Tigers posted a combined 49-26-5 overall record and .644 winning percentage the previous four seasons. They have earned three NCAA tournament bids during the decade of the 2000s. In 2004, with All-American and NCAA Division III Player of the Year Patrick McGinnis leading the way, they finished 16-4-1 while recording their highest victory total since that ’92 campaign. CC was 144-68-16 (.667) during the 1990s, including an 18-2-2 (.864) mark and trip to the national semifinals in 1992.

Richardson earned his bachelor’s (1963) and master’s degrees ('66) from the University of California-Riverside, where he earned four letters in varsity soccer, then added a Ph.D. ('76) from the University of Connecticut. He formerly served on the District 11 school board in Colorado Springs and has a United States Soccer Federation "A" coaching license.