Steve Domin joined the UW-Whitewater men's soccer coaching staff prior to the 2023 Spring campaign.
Domin comes to the Warhawks after a 27-year career at Carthage College. While at Carthage, he served as the Director of Soccer Operations, the head men's and women's soccer coach, and was an instructor in the Exercise & Sport Science Department during his tenure.
Coach Domin holds a combined 416-254-51 overall collegiate record. Under his direction, Carthage had produced more than 100 All-CCIW performers, 78 All-State of Wisconsin Collegiate performers, 32 All-Region players, three NCAA All-Americans, multiple Conference Championships and several CCIW Player and Coach of the Year Honors. In 2011, 2015, 2016, and in the Spring of 2021, Coach Domin was named the State’s Collegiate Coach of the Year. His Carthage teams had been ranked in the top 10 by the United Soccer Coaches (formerly the NSCAA) Regional & National Committee on several occasions (1996, 1997, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, and 2021), and have competed in the NCAA National Championships. In 2014, Coach Domin and the men’s soccer team eclipsed the 200 win plateau defeating perennial power Wheaton College (the NCAA National Runner-up and NCAA National Champions the seasons prior), and is one of a handful of coaches to have surpassed 400 NCAA wins combined.
Domin was named CCIW/Joe Bean “Men’s Soccer Coach of the Year” in 1996, 2007, 2011, 2016, and in 2018 (eclipsing the award’s namesake). His 2001, 2007, 2011, and 2016 teams won CCIW titles, the 2008, 2011, 2015, 2016 and 2018 teams won CCIW Tournament titles, and all qualified for the NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer Championships. During Domin’s tenure, Carthage had qualified 15 times out of the last 18 years for the CCIW Men’s Soccer Tournament, including 10 in a row from 2002 to 2013, with the 2016 Team as the only side to win 8 league games and all of conference tournament matches -- a CCIW record.
In addition to his coaching duties at UW-Whitewater, Coach Steve is one of the Directors of FC Wisconsin, regarded among the State's elite soccer clubs, directly coaches the U-16 and U-19 South Regional teams, and is a principal member of the IVG Valuation Group which assesses multifaceted organizations, including a higher education niche surrounding several D1 and Power-5 athletic departments/assets.
In 2025, Domin was part of Tony's Guinn's WIAC Men's Soccer Coaching Staff of the Year helping the Warhawks to its first conference Championship, United Soccer Coaches rankings, and NCAA Championship selection. He holds an advanced NSCAA national license and a “USSF” national coaching license, and has served on the NCAA Men’s & Women’s Championship Selection Committee.
Domin played for the Naperville Soccer Association and stints with the Chicago Magic Soccer Club before playing and captaining Carthage’s 1991-93 soccer teams. He also had a four-year playing career for the Carthage baseball team. A two-year team captain, he compiled a .332 career batting average as the team’s second baseman and was named to the NCAA Central Region all-tournament team as both a junior and senior. He holds a Carthage career record with only 24 strikeouts in over 450 at bats (highlighted in the NCAA as the “toughest to strike out” category), batted .414 in 1992, .404 in 1993 and was part of Carthage’s first World Series Teams.
Domin coached the men's and women's soccer, baseball, and softball teams, and was a graduate assistant, manager, or game support staffer in football, basketball, swimming and track & field at Carthage.
Domin is a native of Naperville, Ill., where he attended Naperville North High School and was named
Daily Herald all-state in baseball, and played varsity soccer for legendary coach Dave Bucher. He graduated from Carthage in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in both exercise and sport science and business administration. He received his master’s in education with a specialization in guidance and counseling, also from Carthage, in 1995.
Domin and his wife Stephanie, the Carthage women’s coach for both cross country and track and field, live in Pleasant Prairie, Wis., with their sons Ty and T.J.
