Place of birth London, England 1972 New Jersey Brewers Position Defender Years Team Education Columbia University | 1968-1971 Columbia Lions Role Soccer player Playing position Name Len Renery | |
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Date of birth (1949-11-09) November 9, 1949 (age 66) | ||
Len Renery inducted to Columbia Athletics HO Fame
Len Renery is a retired English-American professional soccer defender and coach.
Renery moved to the United States when he was twelve years old. In 1966, he graduated from Neptune High School where he was a varsity baseball and soccer player. In 2010, Neptune High School inducted Renery into its Athletica Hall of Fame.
After a prep year at Suffield Academy in Connecticut, Renery entered Columbia University where he played on the men's soccer team from 1968 to 1971. He was a 1969 and 1970 first-team All Ivy. He graduated in 1971 and was inducted into the Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2015.
In 1972, he played for the expansion New Jersey Brewers of the American Soccer League. He signed with the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League in 1973. Renery finished his career in the Major Indoor Soccer League with the San Francisco Fog in 1981.
Photos, newspaper clippings and team jerseys from his years with the ASL, NASL and MISL can be found at NASLJerseys.com.
Renery coached Sacred Heart Preparatory in Atherton, California from 1985 to 1995. In May 1996, he became head coach of the Menlo College men's team. He spent ten years at Menlo.