Bill Suhayda joined the Chiefs’ staff in 2009 as a Volunteer Assistant Coach after coaching at Aurora East High School, Newark High School and Aurora University in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Over the last 12 seasons he has helped his son Brett, the Chiefs’ head coach, rebuild the Chiefs’ program into a perennial ISCC and NJCAA Region IV contender.

A native of Godisa (Pécs), Hungary, Suhayda immigrated to the United States and graduated from Aurora East High School in 1967. He went on to play soccer at Northern Illinois University and Aurora University where he was an All-Conference and All-NAIA District 20 performer for the Spartans in 1972 and 1973. Suhayda led Aurora in assists both seasons and was named Aurora’s MVP in 1973 after leading the team in scoring as well. He obtained a double Major in Biology and Psychology and also earned a certificate in Secondary Education from Aurora.

Coach Suhayda returned to the Aurora East School District where he taught Biology for over 30 years and coached both soccer and wrestling. He established both the boys’ and girls’ soccer programs at Aurora East, coaching the boys’ teams from 1986 to 1991 and again from 2001 to 2005, and the girls’ program from 1999 through 2005. Suhayda retired from teaching in 2005 and was inducted into the Tomcats’ Athletic Hall of Fame in February of 2012 as an athlete, coach and community supporter.

In addition, Suhayda was a founder and president for the Fox Valley Kickers Youth Soccer Club. He has also worked for Aurora Township’s Delinquency Prevention Program and the Regional Office of Education in truancy prevention. Coach Suhayda is also a licensed pilot and authored a book, “From Tyranny to Liberty,” a biography of his family’s ordeal escaping communist controlled Hungary was he was a child.