The 19th head coach in Franklin & Marshall history, Dan Wagner was named the 2006 National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA)/adidas Mid-Atlantic Region Coach of the Year. It was his fifth season as the squad's mentor.

Wagner guided the 2006 Diplomats to a program-best 13-4-3 record. The team capped that with the school's first NCAA Division III Soccer Championship berth in a quarter century, and myriad postseason awards, including First Team All-America honors and Conference MVP honors for Brandon Corday.

During the course of the 2006 campaign, Franklin & Marshall piled up a 14-match unbeaten streak, and was not defeated on its home field at any point in the year. Combined with a pair of home wins at the tail end of the 2005 campaign, the Diplomats did not lose in its last nine games at home which aided Franklin & Marshall in maintaining a consistent top-three ranking in the NSCAA/adidas Mid-Atlantic Poll.

The regional ranking was accompanied by a spot in the National Top 20, defying the preseason prognostication of the Centennial Conference's coaches, who collectively tabbed the Diplomats for a sixth place finish. Franklin & Marshall finished the regular season in second place in the Centennial, and was the runner-up to Johns Hopkins in the Conference Championship Tournament.

The men's soccer class of 2007 was the first recruited to Lancaster by Wagner. As freshmen, their squad won just three games. They came back the following year with 11 wins, marking one of the ten best season-to-season turnarounds for a program in the NCAA that year.

Wagner also directs the F&M Soccer Africa Project, a cooperative venture with Ethan Zohn and Grassroots Soccer. The Project is intended to capitalize on soccer's international popularity in order to raise HIV/AIDS awareness, as well as support clinics and communities across the African continent.

The Diplomats will act as goodwill ambassadors, traveling to Cape Town, South Africa, in March of 2008 to play matches against professional teams. Franklin & Marshall soccer will also lend "boots on the ground" support to Grassroots Soccer. The Diplomats will travel with donated soccer goods, and a donation of several thousand dollars specifically earmarked for soccer balls and uniforms. Wagner hopes the trip will be the beginning of a budding transatlantic soccer relationship.

Wagner's soccer pedigree is rich. Steeped in the rich tradition of Messiah soccer, where he excelled as an undergrad, Wagner is the only player to captain the Falcons for three seasons. While playing in Grantham, he earned All-Middle Atlantic Conference honors in 1991, 1994 and 1995. He finished his career at Messiah with 16 goals and 23 assists for 55 points.

In addition to his time on the F&M sidelines, Wagner is the Co-Director of Tactical Team Trainers, conducting high school soccer team and player development camps. Amongst the teams benefiting from Wagner's tutelage are Warwick High School, which won the 2005 AAA Pennsylvania State Champion, and Manheim Central, a 2006 AA State Finalist.

Wagner first went from the pitch to the sideline at Northern York High School, coaching the girls' junior varsity (1994) and varsity (1995) teams. From Dillsburg, it was on to Pequea Valley High School, where he stood at the helm for two seasons. In that time, he raised the varsity boys' program from a 5-13 record in 1997, to 14-4 in 1998. The sudden turnaround earned Wagner the 1998 Lancaster-Lebanon League Section III Coach of the Year award, and demonstrated his uncanny knack for making his teams instantly competitive.

Prior to his joining the staff at Franklin & Marshall, Wagner served as the head boys' soccer coach at Penn Manor High School from 1999 through the spring of 2002. Wagner serves as a teacher and Social Studies Coordinator at Penn Manor High School. He currently resides in Lancaster Township with his wife, Shelby, and children, Tyler and Cassidy.