Luc Patberg begins his fifth season as an assistant coach with men’s soccer at the University of the South in 2025.
 
Sewanee has posted a 33-24-12 mark in his four years with the Tigers, with 24 players earning All-Conference honors and 92 student-athletes garnering SAA Academic Honor Roll accolades.
 
Sewanee posted an 8-8-2 overall record and made it to the semifinals of the conference tournament in 2021 in Patberg’s first year with the program. Four Tigers earned All-Conference honors and 18 student-athletes were named to the SAA Academic Honor Roll.
 
The Tigers improved to 13-4-0 overall, 5-2-0 in SAA action, in 2022, tying for first in the league standings with 15 points. Eight players were voted All-SAA and 21 student-athletes were recognized on the SAA Academic Honor Roll. The Tigers lost in the semifinals of the league tournament for the second straight year.
 
Zach Shunnarah and JP Furman were voted First Team All-Region and sophomore Trevor Reichman earned Third Team All-Region honors. Shunnarah, a defender, later garnered All-America accolades, the second All-American in program history, with Patberg working with the backline and defense throughout that season.

Sewanee suffered through a 6-5-6 campaign in 2023, with the club scoring just 23 goals in 17 outings, hitting the crossbar and the post and every other part of the goal except the back of the net on a number of late-match occasions. The Tigers finished fourth in the SAA standings, reaching the semifinals of the conference tournament for the third consecutive season.
 
Seven players garnered All-Conference accolades and a program-record 27 student-athletes were named to the SAA Academic Honor Roll.
 
In 2024 the Tigers got off to a rough start, posting a 1-4-4 mark through the end of September that included a 2-1 loss to third-ranked Washington and Lee as well as draws against 25^th-ranked Covenant and Belhaven. The club won four of its final six regular season matches before a victory in the quarterfinals of the SAA Tournament and then a 2-1 overtime loss to Oglethorpe in the semifinals.
 
Sewanee finished the year 6-7-4 overall with five players garnering All-SAA accolades and 26 named to the SAA Academic Honor Roll.

Prior to his arrival at Sewanee, Patberg served as an assistant men's soccer coach for two seasons at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Mo. He was the head coach of the reserve team for the Hawks and assisted with the recruiting efforts of the program. Additionally, he organized the team's drills and training stations and the program's travel. 

The son of Sue Patberg, head women's soccer coach at Emory University, he has also interned at Georgia State University's sports marketing department and Emory as a facilities and recreation intern. 

The Atlanta, Ga., native played two seasons at Rockhurst as a defender in 2017 and 2018, reaching the semifinals of the NCAA Tournament in his first year, and spent his first two years collegiately at Queens University in Charlotte, N.C. 

Patberg earned a bachelor’s in Sports Management from Rockhurst in 2019 and a master’s in Business Administration, also at Rockhurst, in 2021.

Updated 8/20/25