Wes Anania

Wes Anania joins the Georgia Southern women's soccer program as a volunteer assistant coach and director of camps in 2022.

Anania joins the Eagles from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Ga, where he served as the head coach of the NCAA Division III Stormy Petrels from 2015-21.

Anania was instrumental in building the program to a competitive level on the field and in the classroom. He recruited and coached 6 all-conference selections, and 18 all-conference academics selections. His team was awarded the United Soccer Coaches Team academic award in the fall of 2021. 2019 saw the Stormy Petrels achieve new heights with the first winning season since 2000, while posting the longest win streak to start a season at 7.

Anania came to Oglethorpe after a successful stint with the University of North Georgia in Dahlonega, where he served as an assistant women's soccer coach for three years. While there, their teams compiled a total record of 45-13-3 and made the second round of the NCAA Division II championship in 2014 and 2015. They led all of Division II in goals scored (84) in 2014 and he coached three All-Americans, nine All-Region players, and the 2014 Peach Belt Conference Player of the Year.

Before that, he served as the head coach at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama, from 2009 through 2012. Playing out of the South Atlantic region in Division III, the same region the Stormy Petrels play out of, he led the Hawks to their first-ever Great South Athletic Conference tournament appearance in 2011 and coached seven All-Great South selections and 13 Great South All-Academic honorees.

Anania also served as an assistant coach at his alma mater, the University of Montevallo in Montevallo, Alabama, for the 2008 season. During that season, Montevallo reached the NCAA Division II regionals, winning the Gulf South Conference's regular season title and advancing to the final of the conference tournament. The team finished 15-6 overall and 6-0 in Gulf South play that year.

In Ananias’s senior season he was awarded pre-season all-conference honors and finished his playing career second all-time on the career matches list with 65 matches played. In 2004, Anania’s junior year, the Montevallo men’s soccer team achieved many program firsts and set multiple school records. The team still holds Montevallo records for goals against in a single season, 11, and the lowest goals against average for a season, 0.59. During the 2004 season the team was ranked as high as #7 in the national soccer polls going on to win the Gulf South Conference Soccer Championship and receiving the programs first ever at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. The 2004 season also saw the Falcons finishing #23 in the end of year national rankings, another first for the program.

Anania graduated from Montevallo in 2006 with a Bachelor of Science in kinesiology with a concentration in health promotion. While working at North Georgia, Anania earned a Master of Science in physical education in 2014.