page_title: Schellas Hyndman
section_title: Coaching career
hierarchical_section_title: Schellas Hyndman / Coaching career
caption_attribution_description: English: Schellas Hyndman, 26 Oct 2013, FC Dallas vs SJ Earthquakes, Buck Shaw Stadium
context_page_description: Schellas Hyndman is the head men's soccer coach at Grand Canyon University. He was previously head coach of FC Dallas in Major League Soccer.
  Despite having a limited career as a professional athlete, Hyndman is one of the most successful college soccer coaches in American sports history, compiling a 466–122–49 record as the head coach at Southern Methodist University. He was the 1981 NSCAA Coach of the Year.
context_section_description: In the fall of 1973, Hyndman entered Murray State University, graduating with a masters degree in 1975.  In addition to taking classes, he also coached the men's soccer team. In 1976, he moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil where he taught at Escola Graduada and served as a staff coach with the São Paulo Futebol Clube. In 1977, he returned to the U.S. to become the head coach at Eastern Illinois University, then competing in the NCAA Division II. Over seven seasons, he compiled a 98–24–11 record. In 1978, Hyndman took the Panthers to third in the NCAA post-season tournament. In 1979, he topped that as Eastern Illinois finished runner-up to Alabama A&M. In 1981, the team moved up to the NCAA Division I, taking third place in the 1981 Division I tournament. That led to his being selected as the 1981 NSCAA Coach of the Year.  He was inducted into the Eastern Illinois Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001.
  In 1984, Southern Methodist University hired Hyndman as head coach of the Mustangs soccer team. Over the next twenty-four seasons, he compiled a 368–96–38 record, earning eight league Coach of the Year honors, five regional Coach of the Year honors.
  On June 16, 2008, FC Dallas of Major League Soccer hired Hyndman as head coach after the sacking of Steve Morrow. In 2010, he coached Dallas to the MLS Cup Final, losing to Colorado Rapids. Hyndman resigned following the 2013 season.
  On January 13, 2015, he was named head men's soccer coach at Grand Canyon University.  In 2018, Grand Canyon became the third school he led into the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship.
caption: Coaching FC Dallas in October 2013
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