Emily Scheese

The 2021 season is Emily Scheese's fifth as the head coach for Cal Maritime's women's soccer program. Scheese arrived to campus from UC Santa Cruz where she was the Division III Association of Independents’ Coach of the Year in 2013, 2014, and 2016. Before she was named head coach in 2012, a role she held until 2017, she spent two seasons as the Banana Slugs' assistant coach.

Under her tutelage, UCSC won the Great South Athletic Conference in 2015 and advanced to the NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament six times. Success on the field also carried over to the classroom since UC Santa Cruz earned the National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s Team Scholar Award with a cumulative GPA of 3.35 — the highest in the UC system from 2012 to 2016.

Scheese’s UC Santa Cruz teams featured the Association of D-III Independents Defensive Player of the Year in 2013, 2014, and 2016, a GSAC Tournament MVP and four All-Tournament Team selections in 2015. Two NSCAA D-III All-West Region Team, 10 NSCAA D-III Scholar All-West Region Team and six Great South Athletic Conference All-Scholar Team selections flourished under her leadership.

In addition to coaching Global Premier Soccer’s Almaden FC, she served as Nike Soccer’s US Sports Camps co-director from 2012-2017; Scheese also played a key role with Aptos Soccer Club's community outreach programs and initiatives during her tenure with the south Santa Cruz County organization.

Hailling from Torrance, California, Scheese attended Bishop Montgomery High School and led the girls' soccer team to a CIF championship in 1994. Two years later, she earned Most Valuable Defensive Player and All-Del Rey League First Team honors as a senior.

Scheese continued her athletic and academic career at UC San Diego; in addition to earning a degree in literature and minoring in critical gender studies, she received a departmental award for the best senior honors thesis in 2000. On the field, she led the Tritons to three NCAA Division III national titles and is a key reason why they posted a combined record of 72-7-3 throughout her college career..

While at UC Santa Cruz, Scheese earned a Ph.D. in literature in 2012 and taught several postcolonial literature, women's caribbean literature, rhetoric and composition courses for its writing department.