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Adam Cooper enters his 18th season as head coach for the Gaels in 2023 and is the most successful coach in program history.

He is a 4-time WCC Coach of the Year, has led the Gaels to the best stretch of seasons in school history and owns the program's top marks for wins-per-season, overall and WCC winning percentage and conference victories. His teams have finished among the top half in the league standings in 12-straight seasons and in 14 of the past 15 years.

Saint Mary's finished in a tie for third in the WCC in 2022 at 7-6-5 and 2-1-4 in conference play. The Gaels had seven players named to the 2022 All-WCC Teams, including first-teamer Louis Sterobo. Sterobo was named First Team All-WCC Defender, Boyd Curry was named Second Team All-WCC Defender, and Wade Muttitt earned Second Team All-WCC Midfielder.

The Gaels also had Bastian Toelhoej and Luke Lawrence make the All-WCC Freshman Team, while Christian Engmann and Riley Lynch each received All-WCC Honorable Mention. Riley Lynch was named to the WCC All-Academic First Team, and seniors Greg Brighton, Boyd Curry, and Valentin Kurz, juniors Cade Cowan, Tyler Hardin, Timothy Stephens, and Louis Sterobo, along with sophomore Jack Vestberg were all named WCC All-Academic Honorable Mention.

In 2021 the Gaels finished 11-6-1 overall and 4-2-1 in WCC play, good for a three-way tie for third in the final conference standings. Senior Sebastian Schacht was named All-WCC First Team, sophomore Louis Sterobo and freshman Riley Lynch were selected to the All-WCC Second Team, and junior Boyd Curry received All-WCC Honorable Mention.

Riley was joined by fellow newcomers Jan Marpe and Gael Quintero on the All-WCC Freshman Team as well. The Gaels led the conference in players named to the All-WCC Freshman team. It was the first time in Saint Mary's Men's Soccer program history that the Gaels have had three players named to the All-WCC Freshman Team.

Saint Mary's saw two of its most important contributors land on the United Soccer Coaches All-West Region Team, with Schacht and Curry taking home second and third team honors, respectively. Schacht was also the recipient of the George R. McKeon award, which is presented to a male and female graduating senior student-athlete who has achieved noteworthy success in the classroom, in their sport, and in their extracurricular activities. The Gaels also had 10 players make the WCC All-Academic team.

In 2020, the Gaels went 6-2-1 and 4-2-1 against WCC opponents in the shortened spring season. Saint Mary's competed for their third straight WCC title up until the second last game of the season and were ranked among the nation's top-25 for the majority of the season. A total of eight Gaels were named All-WCC (three First Team, one second Team, two Honorable Mentions, and two Freshman Team) including freshman Christian Engmann who was both a First Teamer and All-Freshman Team honoree. Academically, nine Gaels were recognized for their work in the classroom by the WCC including Greg Brighton who was named to the All-Academic Team.

Assistant coach Ricardo Gutierrez joined head coach Leonard Griffin’s staff at Cal in May 2022, after previously coaching under Griffin at Grand Canyon.

In the 2021 season at GCU, Gutierrez was part of a staff that led the Antelopes to a 15-4-1 record, the WAC regular-season championship and a berth in the NCAA tournament.

Prior to Grand Canyon, Gutierrez worked under Griffin at San Francisco from 2019-2021. While the West Coast Conference preseason poll picked USF to finish last in the spring 2021 season, Griffin and Gutierrez led the Dons to a third-place finish in the WCC.

Gutierrez also worked as the executive director of the Carolina Renegades Soccer Club in 2017. A 2004 graduate of Albertus Magnus College in Connecticut, Gutierrez has coached for more than 20 years and helped several players reach U.S. national team programs.

A veteran of the Aggie Soccer Field sidelines, associate head coach Jason Hotaling returns for his 19th season overall with the Aggies in 2023. Elevated to his current position in April of 2014, Hotaling’s duties include coordinating the program’s recruiting efforts, team travel and scouting, while also leading the development of UC Davis’ goalkeepers.

Under Hotaling's watch, UC Davis keepers have posted a combined save percentage over .700 in three straight seasons.

“Jason has been on my staff for many years, working his way up from a volunteer assistant to his new position as the associate head coach,” head coach Dwayne Shaffer said. “He has been instrumental in the development of our outstanding goalkeepers throughout the years and will now assume more responsibility in helping take our program to the next level.”

Hotaling has helped engineer the Aggies’ successful transition to the Division I level and the always difficult Big West Conference, helping lead UC Davis to a consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances in 2007 (first round) and 2008 (second round), and another appearance in 2019 (second round). With Hotaling on staff, UC Davis earned eight consecutive trips to the Big West Tournament, winning the conference’s North Division and a spot into the tournament’s championship match in 2012, 2017, 2018, and 2019. The Aggies advanced to the semifinals in 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2021.

In 2021 with Hotaling on staff, UC Davis returned from a one-year competition absence due to the Big West Conference canceling the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic and went 9-10-1. The Aggies advanced to the Big West Conference Tournament semifinal, defeating CSU Bakersfield in the quarterfinals to get there. Goalkeeper Derrek Chan posted four shutouts and both Chan and Charles Janssen both had save percentages over .700.

In addition, the Aggies welcomed a 10-member signing class that comes in ready to contribute immediately to the 2022 squad.

UC Davis enjoyed a historic season in 2019, one that saw it win both Big West championships — regular season and the league’s year-end tournament — for the first time in program history, earn a bye and a No. 14 ranking in the NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Tournament. Men’s soccer also recorded a historic accomplishment that season when it hosted Louisville in Aggie Soccer Field’s inaugural Second Round Tournament match.

With all-region standout Wallis Lapsley in goal, the Aggies’ defense allowed a paltry 13 goals throughout the championship campaign — one of the lowest totals in the nation, among all Division I teams, and in program history. Not only did men’s soccer match a program record with its 13 overall victories, its seven home wins also tie a program-best figure.

Under his tutelage, the Aggies earned a collective 81 All-Big West awards, including 15 first-team honorees. In only its second full season of play at the Division I level, Hotaling also helped tutor a pair of NSCAA All-Americans in 2008, as Quincy Amarikwa and Dylan Curtis earned second- and third-team honors, respectively.

Six other student-athletes: Amarikwa (2008), Dylan Curtis (2008), Brian Ford (2012), Omar Zeenni (2013), Roy Boateng (2017), Nabi Kibunguchy (2017) and Lapsley (2019) were named to the NSCAA All-Far West Region squad during his time on the sidelines, including first-team honors for Amarikwa and Curtis in their respective seasons.

Head coach Marcus Ziemer will be entering his 33rd year and 32nd season with the SSU men's soccer program in 2023. The Seawolves men's soccer program has put together back-to-back postseason appearances qualifying for the conference tournament in 2021 and 2022. Last season, Ziemer and is squad pulled off an incredible upset over 13th ranked Cal Poly Pomona, defeating the Broncos 7-6 in penalties and advancing to the conference tournament semifinals for the first time since 2016.

Head coach Marcus Ziemer led SSU to the CCAA Tournament Championship and to the NCAA Tournament during the 2016 season. That was the most recent NCAA Tournament appearance for the Seawolves since 2010 and the teams 9th appearance in program history. A two-time all-conference performer for Sonoma State in the 1980’s, Ziemer has compiled a 360-200-70 coaching record over the past 33 years.

Since coming to Sonoma State, Ziemer has been named the conference’s coach of the year six times, the last coming in 2007. He is also a two-time regional coach of the year and in 2002, he was named national coach of the year after leading the Seawolves to their first national championship.

Under Ziemer, the Sonoma State men’s soccer team has won eight conference titles and has a record of 259-123-40 in conference play. In addition, SSU has appeared in the CCAA tournament 15 times since 2000.

Ziemer began his coaching career in 1989, assisting head coach Peter Reynaud with the SSU men’s squad. In 1991, after Reynaud left to concentrate on the women’s team, Ziemer was promoted to head coach and results came immediately. Ziemer led his squad to the NCAA championship game and he was named Northern California Athletic Conference (NCAC) Coach of the Year for his efforts.

In 1988, Ziemer spent three weeks in England earning an English Football International Preliminary Badge. He earned his USSF “A” license the following year. A fixture in local soccer circles, Ziemer and his three brothers (Andrew, Benjamin, Christopher -- all former SSU players) have run the Ziemer Brothers Soccer Camps for over 20 years, educating thousands of youth soccer players.

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• Margueritte Aozasa, UCLA,
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• Paul Hart Stanford University,
• Paul Stumpf, UC Santa Barbara,
• Sugar Shinohara, USC
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• Mauricio Ingrassia, Long Beach State University,

He holds a USSF “A” License and has coached D1 NCAA athletics at both Stanford University and Saint Mary’s College of California. While at Stanford he guided the Cardinal women’s soccer team to an elite eight finish in the 2002 NCAA playoffs and was named National Coach of the Year by Soccer America for this achievement. He also served Northern California as Director of Coaching, where he specialized in sport science and coach education.