Former Roanoke College men’s soccer player Andrew Forrest ’06 has been named the General Manager, Business Operations for the new El Paso United Soccer League(USL) organization, which begins play in 2019.

Forrest heads to El Paso after a stint at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he was most recently employed as General Manager for Learfield Sports. Prior to that, he worked for the San Antonio Scorpions Professional Soccer Team as Director of Sponsorship and then as Vice President and Assistant General Manager. He held previous positions with Playbook Management International, as Senior Account Executive with the San Antonio Scorpions and as Consultant with FC Edmonton and in the cities of Baltimore and Dallas.

Forrest becomes the second RC alum to oversee a USL Professional soccer team, joining Andy Smith ’96 who is the general manager for Reno 1868 FC after leading the sales teams for D.C. United an FC Dallas President in MLS as well as working as the GM of the Atlanta Silverbacks of the North American Soccer League (NASL).

Forrest was a member of the RC team from 2002-06 and helped the Maroons to the ODAC Championship in both 2002 and 2005.