After just three seasons as head coach of the Seawolves, Cesar Markovic has a program in place that is ready to challenge for a conference championship every season. Markovic`s 30 wins as head man of the Seawolves are the most for a coach after three seasons. He is the only coach in Stony Brook men's soccer history to take the team to the postseason in each of his first three years as coach.

Markovic guided the team to the postseason once again in 2006. Michael Palacio, `08 picked up numerous honors for Stony Brook, taking home second team all-region, America East Midfielder of the Year and first team all-conference. Yahaya Musa, `08 earned back to back all-conference honors while freshman Oscar Leis was tabbed for the all-rookie team.

The 2005 Seawolves posted another record-breaking season, setting program marks with 13 overall wins and six America East victories while earning the program's first America East regular season and tournament championships. Markovic's Seawolves went on to post the first NCAA Division I tournament win in any sport in the school's history with a 2-1 overtime victory over Yale in the first round of the College Cup before suffering a 2-0 loss at Connecticut in the second round. In addition, the Seawolves finished the campaign with a program-best RPI ranking of 45 out of 199 NCAA Division I schools, a jump of 147 slots in two years under Markovic.

Several Seawolves collected individual honors, including Douglas Narvaez, `06 a first team All-New York Region and America East selection; Palacio, a first team all-conference and second team all-region pick; Chris Megaloudis, `06 a second team all-conference and all-region honoree, and Yahaya Musa and Chris Scarpati, both second team all-conference selections. Narvaez went on to earn the America East Championship's Most Outstanding Player award after leading the Seawolves to their first conference title in soccer at the Division I level. Markovic was also honored for his outstanding efforts, earning BigAppleSoccer.com's Men's College Coach of the Year accolades From 2005-2007, he served as Director of Coaching for the Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association (ENYYSA) ODP.

Markovic's Seawolves finished as one of the most improved teams in the nation in 2004 after more than doubling their win total from the previous year, tying them for the fourth-best improvement in NCAA Division I men's soccer. After finishing 4-13-1 prior to his arrival, Stony Brook posted an 11-6-3 overall mark and a 4-3-2 record in league play to finish tied for fourth in America East, while clinching the program's first berth in the conference tournament in his first campaign. The fifth-seeded Seawolves advanced to the second round of the tournament after topping fourth-seeded Vermont in penalty kicks, but fell to eventual champion and No. 1 seed Boston University.

The team, which ranked as high as fourth in the New York region during the season, also was honored for outstanding sportsmanship by the New York Metro Chapter of Collegiate Soccer Officials.

Chris Megaloudis earned first team All-Northeast Region and America East all-conference accolades, while Dan Cukar and Yahaya Musa were named to the all-rookie team. Anthony Barberio and Mark Zajkowski `06 earned America East all-tournament honors. In the spring of 2005, three graduating seniors-Josh Allen, Jose Sura and Barberio-inked professional contracts to play for the Long Island Rough Riders in the USL Second Division. In the spring of 2007, Rob Fucci signed with F.C. Crystal Palace of the U.S.L.

A season full of program firsts also included a milestone for Markovic, as he collected his 100th career coaching victory on October 3, 2004 with a 3-0 win over UMBC.

Named the eighth head coach in Stony Brook history in January of 2004, Markovic was the architect of winning programs at Saint Peter's College and Hunter College and is known as one of the premier recruiters of student-athletes from New York State.

Prior to his arrival at Stony Brook, Markovic spent the previous four seasons at Saint Peter's College, where he was named the 2003 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Coach of the Year after leading his team to a MAAC tournament title and to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. After arriving at Saint Peter's in 2000, Markovic turned a program that had struggled at the bottom of Division I for the past two decades into the winningest team in school history, posting a school-record 18 wins in 2003, including a 2-0 victory over 11th-ranked Brown in the first round of the NCAA Men's College Cup.

In his first two seasons at Saint Peter's, Markovic's teams finished a combined 7-29-1 (.203), but over the next two years, the Peacocks went 28-11-5 (.705), with 18 wins in 2003 and 10 in 2002. Over those two seasons, Markovic coached four NSCAA All-Mid-Atlantic Region picks and 10 All-MAAC selections.

Before his time at Saint Peter's, Markovic was the head men's soccer coach at Hunter College, his alma mater, where he led his team to five consecutive conference titles in each of his five seasons from 1995-2000. In 1999, Markovic led the squad to the school's first ever appearance in the regional semifinals of the NCAA Division III Tournament. An October of 2002 inductee into the Hunter College Hall of Fame, Markovic is a two-time CUNY Athletic Conference Coach of the Year (1995, 1999), while earning Skyline Coach of the Year accolades in 1995. He concluded his coaching career at Hunter with a .678 (58-26-6) winning percentage, the highest in school history, while bringing home five CUNY regular season and three tournament titles.

Markovic spent one season as the head coach and adjunct professor in the physical education department at Queensborough Community College and three years as the head coach at St. John's Prep High School, where he led his team to CHSSA City and Sectional titles in 1993.

Other coaching experience includes stints as an assistant coach of the Long Island Rough Riders of the USL A-League in 1997 and 1998 and as an apprentice/assistant for the Sao Paolo FC in Brazil in 1996.

In addition to his coaching experience, Markovic was named the director of coaching for the Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association in June of 2005 and serves as the Director of Coaching for the Stony Brook Soccer Club. Markovic has also been extremely involved in youth soccer in the New York City area, serving as the director of coaches for the Downtown United Soccer Club, an organization with over 1,000 members. Markovic has also served as a coach for the B.W. Gottschee Soccer Club. For the past 11 years, he has managed the Markovic Academy of Soccer, which runs youth soccer camps in New York and New Jersey.

Markovic holds a USSF A-License, which is the highest level license granted by U.S. Soccer, an NSCAA National Diploma and was among the first American coaches to receive a Brazilian Professional Coaching License.

A native of Queens, N.Y., Markovic graduated from Hunter College with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1992 and went on to earn his Master's in physical education from Hofstra University in 1997. While at Hunter, Markovic was a two-time all-conference selection and the team's leading scorer as a defender in his senior campaign.

Markovic lives with his wife, Tiajana. He has two sons, Danilo 11, and Alessandro, 9.