Stockton University Athletics

Updated 8/17/26

Greg Ruttler is in his 12th year as the head men’s soccer coach at Stockton, his alma mater. Ruttler has gone 105-66-37 (.594 winning percentage), leading the Ospreys to NJAC Tournament berths in 10 of his 11 seasons. He ranks second in program history in victories.

Last year, Ruttler led the Ospreys to a 10-5-5 record and a tie for first place in the NJAC regular season standings. He recorded his 100th career win with a 2-1 victory over Washington College on September 23, 2025. In 2024, Ruttler steered Stockton to nine wins and its first NJAC championship game appearance since 2004. During the season, Ruttler surpassed Tim Lenahan for second in Stockton history in wins. 

Ruttler coached Stockton to an 11-4-5 record in 2024 for the team’s highest win total since 2017, hitting double figures in wins for the fifth time in his tenure. Stockton posted a 10-6-3 mark in 2022 after going 9-9-2 a year earlier. The Ospreys played a COVID-shortened season in Spring 2021 and went 3-3. 

Ruttler guided Stockton to a 10-6-4 mark and a berth in the NJAC Tournament semifinals in 2019. The 2018 team recorded eight wins against a tough schedule that included five games against teams that finished the season ranked in the top 25. Ruttler’s 2017 squad got off to an 8-0-1 start, the team’s best since 2000, on the way to a 14-4-4 record. A season earlier, Ruttler steered a young 2016 team to seven wins including five straight victories to end the regular season. 

Ruttler made an impressive debut in 2015 by leading the Ospreys to a 14-6-1 record and earning the NJAC Coach of the Year award. He helmed Stockton to second place in the conference standings and an ECAC tournament berth in his first year as a college head coach.

Ruttler moved up to the head coaching position after nine years as assistant and then associate coach for the Ospreys. During that time, the program’s record was 119-61-22 (.644 winning percentage) with two NCAA Tournament appearances. He helped Stockton to at least 11 wins in all nine of his seasons, including NCAA Tournament berths in 2008 and 2010.
  
As a player, Ruttler helped propel the Stockton men’s soccer program to its greatest heights, winning the NCAA championship in 2001 and reaching the NCAA Final Four in 1999. He was a 2001 NSCAA Third Team All-American, three-time NSCAA All-Region, three-time NJAC First Team and the leading scorer on Stockton’s 2001 national champion squad.
 
Ruttler is tied atop Stockton’s all-time games played list (97) and stands third at Stockton in career points (125) and assists (39) plus fifth in goals (43). He earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Stockton in 2003. Ruttler was inducted into the Stockton Athletics Hall of Fame in 2011 and South Jersey Soccer Hall of Fame in 2013.