Emma Woodley
Women's Soccer Head Coach
Coach Emma (Lundeen) Woodley completed her fourth season as head coach of the North Park University women's soccer team in 2023, marking her seventh year as a coach with the program.
In 2022, Woodley coached the Vikings to their first-ever win over Wheaton, earning the 1-0 victory on senior night. The win was the first over the Thunder in 26 previous matchups.
Woodley is certainly no stranger to NPU women's soccer. A four-year letter winner and 2015 NPU Female Athlete of the Year, Woodley earned First Team All-College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) recognition; the first time a Viking was named to the First Team in over 15 years. Woodley broke the single-season record for goals scored during her illustrious senior campaign, marking a league-leading 17. In that 2014 season, Woodley led the league in points (37), points per game (2.06), and goals per game (0.94). Woodley finalized her decorated career with a program second-best 29 goals while breaking the single-season mark for points in a year (37).
Upon graduating from North Park in 2015, Woodley joined the Viking coaching staff as a graduate assistant. She rejoined the women's soccer program, while continuing to serve as an admissions counselor, for the 2019 season.