Technical Staff

Rob Vincent is entering his first season as the head coach for the Hounds pro team after two years as the First Team’s assistant coach and six seasons leading ECNL teams in the Riverhounds Development Academy.

Late in the 2025 season, Vincent was named the team’s acting head coach, and the Hounds put together a historic run to close the season. The team went unbeaten in seven matches with Vincent in charge, going 3-0-4 overall and advancing throughout the USL Championship Playoffs — three times prevailing on penalty kicks — to win the club’s first league title. With the victory on penalties in the USL Championship Final, Vincent became the youngest head coach to win a title in league history at 35 years old.

A youth player with Everton, Crewe Alexandra and Stockport County in England, Vincent came to the United States to play college soccer at the University of Charleston (W.Va.) from 2009-12. He starred for the Golden Eagles and was three times named a First Team Division II All-American.

Vincent signed with Hounds in 2013, the same year Highmark Stadium opened, and played three years for the club. In 2015, the midfielder had a breakout season with 21 goals in all competitions — still tied for the second-most in club history — and was named to the USL All-League First Team.

Prior to the 2016 season, MLS team D.C. United reached a transfer agreement with Hounds to bring Vincent to Washington, and by season’s end, he was a regular starter for playoff-bound United. He began 2017 in a similar role, but he suffered a knee injury in the team’s second match that ended his season.

In 2018, Vincent announced his retirement as a player and returned to the Hounds in his academy role.

Dan Visser enters his 10th full season with the Hounds and his third as Sporting Director, overseeing the soccer aspect of the club at both the professional and academy levels. He holds bachelor’s degrees in math and economics from Messiah College, and he received his Master of Business Administration from Eastern University (Pa.).

He first came to the club as an assistant coach midway through the 2016 season as part of head coach Dave Brandt’s staff. Prior to arriving in Pittsburgh, Visser also served as an assistant coach under Brandt at the United States Naval Academy during its 2015 campaign.

From 2013-14, Visser was head coach at Eastern Nazarene College, and he began his coaching career as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Eastern University while completing his MBA.

Visser played collegiately as a midfielder at Messiah for four seasons before graduating in 2008. During this period, the team won three national championships and accumulated an 89-6-2 record. The two-time team captain also received Regional All-America honors in 2007.

Jon Busch is in his fourth season as the goalkeeper coach for the Hounds. He was previously the goalkeeping coach for Scottish Premiership side Hibernian, and before that, with Indy Eleven in the NASL and USL Championship.

Busch entered coaching after an impressive 21-year professional career that included 14 seasons in MLS. Busch first played in the A-League, where he was named the 2001 A-League Goalkeeper of the Year while helping the Hershey Wildcats reach the league final under Bob Lilley.

He was drafted by the Columbus Crew in the 2002 MLS Super Draft and played there until 2006 before joining the Chicago Fire from 2007-09. In 2008, his best year with the Fire, he was named MLS Goalkeeper of the Year after leading the league in save percentage and tying for the league lead in shutouts. Busch continued his career joining the San Jose Earthquakes in 2010, returning to the Fire in 2015 and finishing with Indy Eleven in 2016-17.

Busch also represented the United States in international play as part of the Under-17 team in the 1993 World Championship. He remained in the U.S. player pool and made his only start at the senior level in 2005, recording a shutout against Colombia, 3-0.

Adam Mitchell is in his first year with the Hounds, joining the club after spending the past seven seasons at Duquesne University.

During his tenure at Duquesne, the Dukes advanced to the Atlantic 10 Championship Final in 2021, hosted A-10 Tournament matches for the first time in 2022, and spent eight weeks in the Division I national rankings to end an 18-year drought without a Top 25 appearance. In that same span, the Dukes produced a total of 13 all-conference selections; the 2023 A-10 Midfielder of the Year, Ask Ekeland; and the first MLS Draft first-round pick in school history in 2024, Jayden Da.

Mitchell began coaching at Lourdes University in Ohio, where he also completed his master’s degree in organizational leadership in 2017. From there, he coached two seasons at Tiffin University, where he helped the Dragons put together a 15-win season in 2018, during which they were finished No. 18 nationally and earned the top seed in the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional.

As a player, Mitchell finished his college career at Notre Dame College (Ohio), where he helped the Falcons twice reach the NCAA Division II Tournament. As a junior in 2014, he led the Mountain East Conference with 14 goals and was a Third-Team All-American as selected by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.