Nate Sego joined the Bellarmine University men’s soccer staff as an assistant prior to the 2024 season.
In his first season with the program, Sego helped push Bellarmine to a berth in the ASUN Tournament. The Knights ranked second in the conference in goals-against average (1.19) under the oversight of Sego, a goalkeeping specialist.
A former goalkeeper at Belmont University, Sego came to Bellarmine after being the U11-U19 boys director of coaching at Tennessee United Soccer from 2022-24 and its director of goalkeeping/head soccer coach from 2020-24. He led the 2006 NPL boys to a D1 state championship in the fall of 2023 and the 2009 NPL boys were a state quarterfinalist in spring 2023.
In addition, under Sego’s guidance, the 2005 NPL boys were a D1 state semifinalist in the fall of 2021, the 2006 DPL girls were a D1 state quarterfinalist in the spring of 2021 and 2022, and the 2007 Red girls were a D2 state quarterfinalist in the spring of 2020 and 2021.
Sego was a goalkeeper coach/assistant coach at Nolensville High School in Tennessee from 2017-20. The girls squad was a 2019 finalist in TSSAA Div. 1 AA after being a semifinalist in 2018.
Also during this general timeframe, Sego was the assistant club director/director of goalkeeping for Tennessee-based Aris FC from 2016-20. He was the head coach of the 2003 boys D2 state quarterfinalist squads of fall 2018 and 2019 and of the 2007 boys D1 state finalists and regional qualifiers of fall 2019 and spring 2020.
Sego played at Belmont from 2013-15 and earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the university. He grew up in the Cincinnati area in Morrow, Ohio, and attended Little Miami High School, where as a senior he piled up a conference-record 309 saves and posted an .880 save percentage.
Sego’s wife, Megan, is a Louisville native. The couple have a son, Otto.
