Casey Bahr


Walter "Casey" Bahr is a U.S. soccer defender who played one season in the North American Soccer League and one in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He was a member of the U.S. soccer team at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He now coaches at Sussex Academy High School.

College

Bahr, the son of National Soccer Hall of Fame member Walter Bahr, attended the United States Naval Academy, playing soccer for the midshipmen. He was a 1968 and 1969 honorable mention All America. He graduated from Annapolis in 1970 and served three years in the U.S. Navy.

Professional

In 1973, Al Miller, head coach of the expansion Philadelphia Atoms of the North American Soccer League signed Bahr. According to some sources, Bahr played only three games others say seventeen. In 1978, he signed with the expansion Philadelphia Fever of the Major Indoor Soccer League. He played nine games with the Fever.

Olympic team

A resident of Toms River, New Jersey serving with the Navy's Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron, Bahr was part of the U.S. team that defeated the Jamaican national team to make it to the Olympics for the first time since the 1956 games. Bahr played three games for the 1972 U.S. Olympic soccer team in Munich.