{{Short description|American soccer coach (1980–2021)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2021}} {{EngvarB|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox football biography | name = David Bulow | image = | fullname = | birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1980|2|4}} | birth_place = Denver, Colorado, United States | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2021|5|6|1980|2|4}} | death_place = Richmond, Virginia, United States | height = {{height|ft=5|in=11}} | position = Midfielder | collegeyears1 = 1998–2001 | college1 = Bowdoin Polar Bears | years1 = 2001–2004 | clubs1 = Cape Cod Crusaders | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = 2004 | clubs2 = Limavady United | caps2 = 8 | goals2 = 2 | years3 = 2005 | clubs3 = Boulder Rapids Reserve | caps3 = 10 | goals3 = 9 | years4 = 2005–2006 | clubs4 = Limavady United | caps4 = 11 | goals4 = 2 | years5 = 2006 | clubs5 = Dungannon Swifts | caps5 = 15 | goals5 = 8 | years6 = 2006 | clubs6 = Cape Cod Crusaders | caps6 = 3 | goals6 = 1 | years7 = 2006 | clubs7 = Richmond Kickers | caps7 = 3 | goals7 = 1 | years8 = 2006–2007 | clubs8 = Dungannon Swifts | caps8 = 32 | goals8 = 16 | years9 = 2007–2009 | clubs9 = Richmond Kickers | caps9 = 51 | goals9 = 25 | years10 = 2010 | clubs10 = Real Maryland Monarchs | caps10 = 8 | goals10 = 0 | years11 = 2011–2013 | clubs11 = Richmond Kickers | caps11 = 51 | goals11 = 9 | totalcaps = 192+ | totalgoals = 73+ | manageryears1 = 2006 | managerclubs1 = Cape Cod Crusaders | manageryears2 = 2018–2019 | managerclubs2 = Richmond Kickers }}
'''David Bulow''' (February 4, 1980 – May 6, 2021) was an American soccer player and coach. A midfielder, his playing career spanned 14 years and included three stints with the Kickers, as well as stints in Ireland and elsewhere in the United States. He coached the Richmond Kickers in 2018–2019.
==Career== ===College and amateur=== Bulow attended Bowdoin College where he played on the school's NCAA Division III men's soccer team from 1998 to 2001. He holds the record for most goals in a season with seventeen and is second on the career goals list with thirty-two.<ref>[http://odyssey.bowdoin.edu/athletics/records/dissemination/msrecords.pdf Bowdoin College Soccer Records]{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He was a 2001 third team All-American.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nscaa.com/awards-detail.php?it=III&yr=2001 |title=2001 All American |access-date=2008-08-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615002429/http://www.nscaa.com/awards-detail.php?it=III&yr=2001 |archive-date=2011-06-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
From 2001 to 2004, he played for the Cape Cod Crusaders in the USL Premier Development League. He led them to the league championship in 2002 and 2003, and in 2004 he scored 21 goals in 18 games.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}
===Professional=== In the fall of 2004, Bulow had a brief stint with Limavady United in the Irish Football League.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/irish/3616830.stm Limavady Sign Quartet]</ref> In September 2005, he signed with Limavady United in Northern Ireland,<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/irish/4204662.stm Arrivals and exits at Limavady]</ref> before transferring to Dungannon Swifts for the remainder of the 2005–2006 season.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/irish/4678050.stm Dungannon Swifts v Limavady Utd]</ref> That season, the Swifts won the Mid-Ulster Cup.
At the end of the season, he returned to Cape Cod Crusaders for the 2006 PDL season where he served as an assistant coach as well as a player. At the end of the season, he transferred to Richmond Kickers of the USL Second Division in time to win the USL-2 championship. He then returned to Dungannon Swifts for the 2006-2007 Northern Ireland season.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.shelbournefc.ie/opposition.php?playerid=665 |title=David Bulow |access-date=2008-08-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071120084948/http://shelbournefc.ie/opposition.php?playerid=665 |archive-date=2007-11-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In June 2007, he signed with the Richmond Kickers of the USL Second Division. He spent the next three seasons with the team, scoring 25 goals in 51 appearances,{{citation needed|date=September 2014}} and helping the team to the 2009 USL2 Championship. Bulow was released by Richmond at the end of 2009, and signed for the Real Maryland Monarchs in 2010. After one season in Maryland, Bulow signed a multi-year contract on 4 January 2011 to play for Richmond Kickers and coach for the Richmond Kickers Youth Soccer Club.
Bulow coached the Kickers from 2018 to 2019. In that span the Kickers won 15 out of 62 games played. Bulow was eventually relieved of his duties.
==Death== Bulow suffered a stroke after a fall on April 24, 2021. He fell into a coma, and died without awakening on May 6, 2021.<ref>[https://www.richmondkickers.com/news_article/show/1162632 David Bulow (1980-2021)]</ref>
==Honors== '''Cape Cod Crusaders''' *Premier Development League Champions: 2003
'''Richmond Kickers''' *USL Second Division Champions: 2009
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Richmond Kickers managers}}
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