Emiria Salzmann

Coach in Attendance

Emiria Salzmann heads into her 13th year and 12th season as the Sonoma State women's soccer head coach in 2023. In eleven complete seasons at the helm, Salzmann has compiled a record of 145-51-24, including a 95-26-15 record in CCAA play, along with ten consecutive CCAA tournament appearances and nine NCAA tournament appearances dating back to 2012.

In 2022, Sonoma State would make history and secure their third straight CCAA regular season title dating back to 2019. It would go down as the 5th CCAA league title in program history and Salzmann would earn her third CCAA Coach of the Year award of her career. The Seawolves put together a dominant season as they also took home the CCAA Offensive, Defensive and Freshman of the Year awards as they earned the #1 seed in the conference tournament. Salzmann would also produce two more program All-Americans in Julia Pritchard and Lexi Zandonella-Arasa.

In 2015, Salzmann earned her second CCAA Coach of the Year honor after leading the Seawolves to their first-ever CCAA title, which was also the first CCAA title for any women's team at Sonoma State since joining the conference in 1998-99. The Seawolves finished the year going 14-3-3 overall with a perfect 10-0-2 mark in CCAA action. She also led SSU to its first NCAA tournament win since 1998 with a 2-0 victory over Point Loma in the First Round of the NCAA's in Azusa.

In 2014, Salzmann and the Seawolves opened with 10 consecutive victories en route to a 14-5-1 record and a CCAA Championship Tournament appearance, but a loss to sixth-ranked Cal State L.A. in the conference semifinals ended the season for SSU.

In just her second year with the program in 2012, Salzmann led Sonoma State to its best season in 13 years, sporting a record of 16-3-2 which helped the Seawolves to earn hosting rights for the First and Second Rounds of the NCAA tournament. Prior to the NCAA's, Sonoma State qualified for the CCAA tournament for the first time in four years after capturing the program's first CCAA North Division title since 2008. SSU advanced to the title match and tied UC San Diego, but the Seawolves fell short of the conference championship after losing in penalty kicks. It wouldn't matter in the NCAA selection process, however, as SSU emerged as the No. 1 seed in the West Region. After a first round bye, the Seawolves hosted Western Washington, but Sonoma State fell in double overtime, 2-1, and was eliminated from national title contention.