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Starting his 25th season at Judson, Steve Burke will look to become the all-time winningest coach in NAIA history in the 2008 season.  Burke enters the 2008 season with 431 career wins and has helped to guide Judson to the all-time winningest program in NAIA with 561 overall wins. 

The 2007 season was among one of his finest as the Eagles won their fourth straight CCAC regular season, tournament, and NAIA Region VII Championships with a 15-7-1 record.  His team also made a fourth straight appearance at the NAIA National Tournament.  Judson also received numerous post-season awards including senior Steven Moldenhauer being named the NCCAA National Player of the Year and the CCAC Player of the Year. 

In 2006, Burke hit a milestone as he won his 400th career game. He was the 21st coach in men's soccer coaching history at a four-year college or university to win 400 games.  Prior to the 2006 season, Burke guided Judson to two perfect seasons in the CCAC in 2004 and 2005. In that run, Judson had a 22-match CCAC win streak that started in the 2003 season and came to an end in 2006.

Burke consistently has a nationally competitive program and led Judson to its fifth NCCAA National Championship in 2002. That year also saw the Eagles win both a CCAC Regular Season and Tournament Championship. The program claimed both titles for the first time in its history in the CCAC. His teams have won 13 conference championships and five NAIA Regional Championships, while making five trips to the NAIA National Tournament.

Under Burke, Judson has become the most prolific teams in the history of the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) soccer tournament. Since taking the reigns of Judson's men's soccer program in 1984, Burke has led the Eagles to five NCCAA National Championships (1991, 1992, 1995, 1997 and 2002) and 11 NCCAA District/Regional Championships. Judson is the only team to win the NCCAA tournament five times. The Eagles have appeared in the NCCAA National Tournament 12 times in Burke's 24-year stint, including nine straight appearances from 1991-1999.

Burke has coached 52 All-Americans and a countless amount of players have gone on to play professionally.

Not only have his players received honors, Burke has collected his share of accolades along the way. He has been named NCCAA National Coach of the Year four times, in 1987, 1992, 2003 and 2004. He has received NCCAA District/Regional Coach of the Year honors nine times, NAIA District Coach of the Year in 1990 and 1992, NAIA Area Coach of the Year in 1990 and has been tabbed Conference Coach of the Year five times.

Coach Burke was born in Plattsburgh, New York, to Douglas and Esther Burke. Burke's father, former head soccer coach at Houghton College won three NCCAA National Championships in his tenure.

Although known for his work at Judson as head men's soccer coach, Burke first distinguished himself as a player. He spent his first two years at Wheaton College where he was his team's Most Valuable Player as a freshman. He then transferred to Houghton College, graduating in 1980 with a degree in education. At Houghton, his team compiled a 34-4-1 record in those two years. He was named the team's Most Valuable Player both years, and became the school's first athlete to be named to the NAIA All-American first team. His squad won the NCCAA National Championship in 1979 and Burke was the tournament's Most Valuable Player. He was then inducted into Houghton's Hall of Honor.

Burke taught high school for two years before going on to Ohio State University where he earned his master's degree in 1984 before coming to Judson University.

Burke and his wife Sharon reside in West Chicago with their three children, Bryan, Corey and Lindsey.

Beginning his fifth year as the assistant men's soccer coach, Diego Cevallos, has been a key part in Judson's success the past four seasons.  A 2004 graduate from Judson University, he helped to recruit the class that produced 74 games the past four seasons and claimed four CCAC regular season, tournament and NAIA Region VII Championships.  In his first season as an assistant coach, he was a part of the Eagles' impressive undefeated regular season then finished the season with their only loss in the second round of the NAIA National Tournament to the eventual national champion. Cevallos will also be the interim head women's soccer coach for the Judson women's soccer team in 2008.

Before becoming a coach at Judson, he distinguished himself as a soccer player playing for the Eagles from 2001-2004 where he contributed immensely to the program and helped the team claim its fifth NCCAA National Title in 2002. He graduated from Judson with a bachelor's degree in Pre-Med.

Cevallos learned the game in Costa Rica, his home country, where soccer is a passion of the people and where it is very prestigious to be an accomplished player. He, then, moved to the United States and played high school soccer in Rockford earning a wide variety of awards.

For several years now, Cevallos has been involved in the local youth soccer scene and he has become a Premier US Youth Soccer Coach who is highly sought out as a trainer for both individuals and club teams. He is currently part of the coaching staff at Crystal Lake Force for the Elite program.