Saint John's University director of soccer-head coach Tudor Flintham '06 named former Johnnie goalkeeper, Kevin Lebahn '16 programs first full-time assistant coach on Wednesday, March 5, 2025.
He completed his first season on the coaching staff for the Johnnies in 2025. The program had one of the largest turnarounds in NCAA history, more than doubling its win total with 13 victories – the second-best total in program history. The team accounted for the second-best NPI turnaround in the country, improving the team’s national ranking by 156 places. SJU had the most wins in program history since 2014, the best win percentage since 2015, the most home wins in a decade and finished third nationally for points per game in the regular season. The Johnnies set program records for goals in a season (57), assists (73), points (187), MIAC Athletes of the Week (7) and claimed the two-highest ranked wins in recorded program history. SJU defeated the No. 3 team in the country 5-2 and the No. 6 team 2-1 in the MIAC playoffs while playing two men down.
Sophomore forward Ronan O’Connor broke the 51-year-old record for goals in a season with 20, which was good for second in the country. O’Connor had the sixth-best individual season in the last 55 years of MIAC soccer and finished second overall in NCAA Division III with 50 points (20g/10a) in the fall of 2025.
Prior to Saint John’s, Lebahn was the head women's soccer coach at Nebraska Wesleyan the past two seasons and was the men's soccer assistant coach, goalkeeper coach and women's assistant soccer coach at Iowa Western Community College from 2021-23. Iowa Western ended the 2021 season with a 16-1-2 record under his leadership, winning the NJCAA National Championship.
Prior to Iowa Western, Lebahn served as an assistant/goalkeeper coach for the men's soccer team at Augsburg for five seasons (2016-20). The Auggies recorded their highest national ranking at the time in program history – No. 9 in 2019 – and qualified for the NCAA tournament in 2018. He also has coaching experience at Sporting Nebraska Football Club in Omaha and as an assistant for the Sporting Nebraska United women's soccer teams.
Lebahn was the first assistant at Minneapolis City SC in 2020-21, where he directed the team to conference regular-season and tournament championships, and the national quarterfinals. This past year he served as an assistant/GK coach for City’s USL2 team that went onto the Elite 8 of the national tournament.
As a student-athlete at SJU, Lebahn ended his career with a 34-20-6 record, including 16 complete-game shutouts, a 1.08 GAA and a .803 save percentage (265 saves) in 60 games. As a senior in 2015, Lebahn became the first SJU goalkeeper to earn All-MIAC first-team honors since Kevin Kohnen in 2000 after he went 12-4-2 record with a 0.87 GAA and a .797 save percentage (63 saves) overall.
Kevin, his wife Paige, and their son Xander, born in August of 2025, reside in St. Michael.
