ST. CHARLES, Mo.- Lindenwood Men's Soccer Head Coach Kris Bertsch has announced that former Assistant Coach Nat Hubert has been promoted to Associate Head Coach starting in the 2026 season. "I am excited to be able to promote Nat to Associate Head Coach. He has grown tremendously as a coach and been a wonderful ambassador for Lindenwood Men's Soccer. Nat has consistently embraced our core values on and off the field and what it means to be a part of this special program. I look forward to Nat continuing to take on more responsibility while helping our program continue to rise amongst the nation's elite programs." said Coach Bertsch. 

Hubert is entering his third season with the Lindenwood Men's Soccer team and was apart of the 2025 squad that went to the school's first ever NCAA Division I National Tournament after helping the program win it's first ever OVC Postseason Championship in the Fall of 2025. He helped the Lions to an overall record of 14-3-4 in 2025 and captured Lindenwood's first regular season and postseason championships in the Division I era. The 14 wins ranked tied for fourth in the country and was the most wins in a single season for Lindenwood since 2013 when they won 18 games as members of the MIAA at the Division II level. The Lions ranked tied for third in all of the NCAA in 2025 with 12 total shutouts, trailing only Princeton (13) and NC State (15). Their 12 shutouts is the most by any OVC team in the history of the league and they also ranked tied for fourth in the NCAA in goal differential with a +31. Lindenwood received votes in the United Soccer Coaches National Poll in back-to-back weeks on September 9 (3 votes) and 16 (1 vote). This marked the first time that Lindenwood has appeared in the National polls and received votes for Men's soccer since the start of the Division I Era. LU ranked in the top 10 of the North Region in the United Soccer Coaches Poll all season long in 2025 with their highest ranking being 4th. They held the number four spot for four weeks in a row from September 9-30. 

Hubert also oversaw a Lindenwood squad that recorded 133 points offensively in 2025, their most in a single season since 2016 (147). Midfielder Matteo Landais finished the season tied for sixth in the country in total assists with nine. Hubert coached seven different players from the 2025 squad that were named to the OVC All-Conference teams. Leandro Haesler, Luca Bartoni, and Matteo Landais were named to the All-OVC First Team, while Gavin Roberts and Ethan Blake were named to the All-OVC Second Team. Haelser and Bartoni were also included on the 2025 All-OVC Newcomer Team along with Alander Soares and Gavin Csiszar. Bartoni and Haesler were named the 2025 Ohio Valley Conference Forward and Defender of the Year. Bartoni scored two goals and led the league in assists with four during conference play, while Haesler ranked first among defenders in the OVC with 10 total points during the regular season, and anchored a defense that recorded 12 shutouts during the 2025 campaign. In his first season with the program in 2024, Lindenwood reached new levels - ranking Top 40 in regular season wins, Top 50 in goals scored in the country and helped guide the program to an 11-6-3 record, up 4 wins from the year previously and one of the best seasons for a team in transition in NCAA D1 Men's Soccer history. 

"I'm very grateful to Lindenwood for continuing to show their faith in me and this program. When I arrived here in 2024, I saw a program that had so much ability to grow. In these two years, we have reached new levels, and deservedly managed to come out of last year with our first regular season and conference title championships. Now we have seen how far we can go and I am determined to continue pushing this program even further to even higher heights, and I'm thankful for the opportunity to do that. I also wanted to give a big thank you to Coach Bertsch - he is an outstanding Coach and one I've grown under tremendously, and I'm very proud that he continues to place value in me." said Coach Hubert.