When many of the country’s top soccer coaches talk about Jim Launder, it quickly becomes crystal clear: He could be somewhere else.
An NCAA Division I program. The USL First Division. Major League Soccer.
All of those places are checked off on Launder’s vast resume of coaching, which stretches more than 30 years.
But now, the former University of Wisconsin men’s coach is back in Madison, where he first rose to national prominence by leading the Badgers to their only NCAA national championship in 1995.