Chris Higgins

Biography

Chris Higgins wrapped up his fourth season with the NDSU soccer coaching staff in 2025, and his second as Associate Head Coach. Higgins helped guide the Bison to the Summit League Regular Season Championship during the 2024 season. Higgins was named associate head coach for NDSU soccer on April 17, 2024 after two seasons as an assistant coach. Higgins joined Mike Regan's coaching staff in May of 2022. A former All-American between the pipes, Higgins works primarily with the goalkeepers. The Glasgow, Scotland native has been instrumental in the development of the goalkeeping unit at NDSU, including the crafting of back-to-back Summit League Goalkeeper of the Year winners, with Abby Wilkinson winning the award in 2023 and Payton Mulberry winning the award in 2024. The goalkeeping unit recorded eight cleansheets in 2024, the most since 2016, including three in a row with three different keepers. NDSU has recorded 21 cleansheets in three seasons under Higgins, after inheriting a unit that had just five cleansheets the previous two years. The goalkeeping unit also produced a 0.99 goals against average, the third straight season the gaa has decreased (1.38 in 2022, 1.06 in 2023) under Higgins, after inheriting a unit that allowed 2.42 the year prior to his arrival. His tutelage of Wilkinson over two seasons helped her became the first Bison soccer player to sign a professional contract. As a junior, Wilkinson earned all-league honors for the first time in her career and also scoope