University of Pennsylvania Athletics

Brian "Rudy" Fuller, who spent two decades as the James C. Gentle Head Coach of Men's Soccer at the University of Pennsylvania, is in his ninth year as the Senior Associate Athletic Director for Intercollegiate Programs in 2025-26. Fuller provides administrative oversight for all 33 intercollegiate sports with specific responsibility for football, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's squash and men's and women's tennis, in addition to overseeing sports performance. Fuller served as the Interim Director of Athletics and Recreation from March through July, 2021. 
 
In addition to leading Penn men's soccer, Fuller spent one year as the Special Advisor to the Athletic Director and member of the Division's Senior Leadership Team. In that role, he provided advice and counsel to the Director of Athletics and Recreation on a variety of internal and external issues impacting the intercollegiate programs. He also facilitated monthly head coach meetings and served as a liaison between the coaching staff and administration.
  
As head coach, Fuller transformed the Penn program—which had experienced just one winning season in the 13 years prior to his arrival—into one of the top teams in the Mid-Atlantic region. The Quakers won seven Philadelphia Soccer Six championships, reached the NCAA Championship four times (2002, 2008, 2010, 2013), and won three Ivy League titles (2002, 2008, 2013). Penn advanced to the NCAA Second Round on two occasions, in 2002 and 2010.
 
Five of Fuller's student-athletes were drafted by Major League Soccer (MLS) teams, including Penn's first-ever Ivy League Player of the Year and the first All-American since 1984 (Matthew Haefner). Duke Lacroix was named Penn's first Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year in 2013. In total, 23 student-athletes earned first-team All-Ivy honors over the past 17 years after a span of 14 years without one.
 
Fuller's teams were committed to achievement in the classroom and in the community. The Quakers have won the NSCAA Team Academic Award each year since 1999, marking the longest streak in the nation, and the program has engaged in community service through the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation, Grassroots Soccer, Junior Diabetes Research, and Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Philadelphia.
 
Prior to arriving at Penn, Fuller was an assistant coach at his alma mater, Georgetown University, from 1993-98. He helped the Hoyas to the 1994 Big East championship and the 1997 NCAA Sweet 16. He earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Georgetown in 1993, his MBA from Villanova in 2003, and a master's in organizational dynamics from Penn in 2020.