Recently completing his tenth season as an assistant coach with the Warriors, Mike Allen was an all-division player at Bishop Hendricken in Warwick, RI. He walked onto the University of Connecticut men's soccer team in 1998, helping the Huskies win the Big East regular season title in 1999 and capture the Big East Tournament title and a berth into the College Cup Final Four in 2000. Upon graduation from UConn, Mike spent one season with the PDL Rhode Island Stingrays and has played on various amatuer teams in the region, now playing in the BSSL with Cambridge Arsenal.

Mike maintains both his NSCAA National Diploma and Advanced National Diploma for coaching, while also coaching youth for the local Andover and surrounding soccer associations.  Additional coaching at the youth level includes clinics for East Coast Soccer Clinic and the Gracepoint Church/Merrimack Mens Soccer Team Annual Free Fall Soccer Clinic.

Originally a native of Rhode Island, Mikes works with The 3M Company as a Traffic Safety Specialist and currently resides in Methuen, MA with his wife Shannon.