Harvard Womens Soccer

Ray Leone has actually resigned from their place as the Branca Family Head Coach for Harvard Women’s Soccer to just accept a job as mind mentor of University of Maryland women’s team, the Harvard Athletic division announced Wednesday. Leone had supported once the headman for Crimson since 2007.

“I became really fortunate to have worked at Harvard and coach plenty great individuals, ” Leone typed in a declaration on Crimson “The people i've coached mean a great deal in my experience and I will be linked to Harvard Women’s Soccer. I Am their particular biggest fan using this point forward.”

During his time at Harvard, Leone compiled a 90-49-18 record, including a 44-14-5 mark in Ivy League play. The Severna Park, Md., local led the group to five Ivy League Championships and therefore five NCAA Tournaments estimates, along side an opening-round success in 2014. He was known as Ivy League Coach of the season in 2014, and during their tenure he coached three Ivy League people of the Year, two educational All-Americans, and 38 All-Ivy selections—including 22 very first Team selections.

Before being named the 5th head coach in system history at Harvard, Leone was the headman at Arizona State, where he led sunlight Devils to a 60-45-14 mark in the six seasons. In 2007, he took over a Crimson staff that finished 3-13-1 the entire year before, and his impact was sensed straight away. Leone led the group to a 10-6-1 mark inside the very first season before bringing an Ivy League Championship to Cambridge a-year later on in 2008, the team’s very first since 2004.

During their playing times, Leone was a celebrity at Severna Park high-school and a three-time all-conference choice at UNC Charlotte. Afterward, Leone became your head coach at Berry College and Creighton, starting the women’s football system at both schools, in addition to Clemson, compiling a 132-58-13 record in 10 periods just before going to Arizona State.

Leone’s wife, Tracey, additionally resigned from her place on Wednesday, stepping straight down while the head advisor regarding the Northeastern women’s team. A former midfielder for U.S. women’s national group, Tracey Leone worked as an assistant mentor under the woman husband at Creighton, Arizona State, and for the Crimson from 2007-2009.

Back home in Maryland, Leone will be successful Jonathan Morgan, which moved 35-36-9 in four seasons aided by the Terrapins. Final period, Maryland won just one conference online game, compiling a 6-12-1 general mark in its 2nd season as a member of this Big Ten. The Terrapins have never skilled the NCAA Tournament since 2012, if they were still members of the ACC.

In line with the Athletic Department, Harvard will instantly start a nationwide search discover Leone’s successor.