Michael McBride enters his fourth season as the Blinn College head men’s soccer coach. He has coached at the collegiate level for 22 years. 

The Blinn men’s team finished the 2021-22 season with a program-best 11-7-2 record, its most wins since the program began in the fall of 2018. The Buccaneers finished with a 7-6-1 record in conference play and qualified for the NJCAA Gulf South District Tournament, its fourth appearance in district playoff competition. 

Following the conclusion of the men’s soccer season, five players moved on to four-year universities to continue their academic and athletic careers, including men’s players Stefan Fevrier Sildor (Winthrop University); Marco Rodriguez Jr. (Concordia University); Cristo Gayoso (St. Thomas University); Joshua Farrell (Trevecca Nazarene University); and Jadiel Chance (Talladega College). 

The men’s team finished the 2020-21 season with a 6-8 record (5-7 in conference) and claimed a spot in the NJCAA Region XIV Men’s Soccer Tournament for the third time in its three-year history. 

In addition, the men’s soccer team was named 2020-21 NJCAA Academic Teams of the Year. The men’s team posted a 3.01 GPA. 

McBride also served as Blinn's head women's soccer coach between 2019-21.

McBride holds a 265-155-24 record (.597 winning percentage) as a men's and women's soccer coach. He has earned 13 coach of the year honors and 11 of his players have moved on to play professionally, including one player who played for Canadian men’s national team (senior team). Seven of his players were named player of the year, including two at the national level. His notable recruits include the Ohio and Kentucky state players of the year, both high school All-Americans. In addition, five of his teams have earned the United Soccer Clubs (USC) College Team Ethics and Sportsmanship Award and four teams have earned the USC College Team Academic Award. 

McBride's coach of the year honors include Mountain East Conference (MEC) Coach of the Year in 2013; NCAA DII Independent Colleges Coach of the Year, Independents' Collegiate Athletic Association' (ICAA) National Coach of the Year, and Ohio Collegiate Soccer Association NCAA DII Coach of the Year in 2011; American Mideast Conference (AMC) Coach of the Year, NSCAA Adidas Great Lakes Regional Coach of the Year, and Ohio Collegiate Soccer Association NCAA DII Coach of the Year in 2010; AMC Coach of the Year in 2008; AMC North Coach of the Year in 2005-07; NSCAA Adidas Great Lakes Regional Coach of the Year in 2005; and AMC North Coach of the Year in 2002. 

Prior to Blinn, McBride spent three seasons as the head women's soccer coach at Nicholls State University. Under McBride's direction, the Colonels earned the Team Ethics and Sportsmanship Award in 2016, 2017, and 2018; earned the highest grade-point average in the 21-year history of the program; and clocked the highest annual community engagement hours in program history.  

Prior to Nicholls State, McBride spent 16 seasons (2001-2016) as the head men's soccer coach for Notre Dame College. For eight years (2009-2016), he also served as the college's Assistant Athletic Director for Community Engagement. 

McBride started the men's soccer program at Notre Dame College in 2001 and helped it transition from the NAIA level to the NCAA Division II ranks. Under his direction, the Falcons posted a 213-76-16 overall record (.737), the highest winning percentage in program history. 

McBride's team won the American Mideast North Division championship in its second season (2002), then won four more division championships (2004-07), three conference titles (2008, 2009, and 2010), and made four NAIA National Championship appearances (2005, 2008, 2009, and 2010). In 2010, McBride guided Notre Dame to a 23-1-0 record and the program's first National Championship Final. 

He has coached 25 All-Americans, 23 All-Academic athletes, two American Midwest Conference (AMC) North Players of the Year, an AMC Freshman of the Year, an AMC Player of the Year, two MEC Players of the Year, an NAIA National Player of the Year (2010), and an Immaculate Conception Athletic Association (ICAA) National Player of the Year (2011). 

At the NCAA Division II level, McBride coached seven All-Americans, including one first-team All-American, nine first-team all-region performers, four second-team all-region performers, 11 first-team all-conference performers, 10 second-team all-conference performers, five honorable mention all-conference performers, three All-MEC freshman team performers, five academic all-region honorees, one MEC Offensive Player of the Year, one MEC Defensive Player of the Year and one Academic All-American honorable mention honoree. McBride also was named the MEC Coach of the Year in 2013. 

In the Falcons’ first year as an NCAA Division II institution, Notre Dame defeated Drury University in the first round of the NCAA Division II National Championship Tournament, making the squad the first program in Falcon history to participate in and win a postseason contest at the NCAA Division II level. In 2013, Notre Dame's first season competing in the MEC, McBride coached the Falcons to their first MEC regular season championship. Over Notre Dame's first four seasons (2012-15) competing as an NCAA Division II Institution, the Falcons made it to the national tournament every season. 

Before entering the collegiate coaching ranks, McBride was a Professional Footballers Association Community Coach from 1992-94. In addition, he was an assistant coach at Walsh University from 1997-2000. Prior to his coaching career with Walsh, he was a scholarship athlete for the Cavaliers from 1995-1998. During his playing career, he earned All-AMC and All-Region honors and was an NAIA All-American nominee. Off the field, McBride was an NAIA All-America Scholar Athlete. 

McBride holds his United States Soccer Federation (USSF) Senior "A" License, the United Soccer Coaches of America (USC) Premier Diploma (distinguished pass), Level 1, 2 & 3 Goalkeeping Diplomas and Director of Coaching Diploma. In addition, McBride also earned both a Preliminary and Preparatory Badge from the English Football Association. 

He earned his bachelor's degree in physical education and a Master's in Education from Walsh. He earned a second master's degree in education from Notre Dame College in spring 2013.  

McBride's wife, Becky, is Blinn's Dean of Student Engagement. They have two daughters, Roisin and Alannah.