Soccer Hires Assistant Coach
8/10/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Aug. 10, 2006
NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Stephen F. Austin head soccer coach Jaime Frias announced Monday the hiring of Erin Lycan as an assistant coach. Lycan completes the Ladyjack coaching staff for 2006. She will work closely with the SFA goalkeepers.
Lycan joins the SFA staff after garnering a wealth of experience as a goalkeeper coach for numerous club teams and camps. In the last four years, the University of Virginia graduate has served as a coach for the Memphis Mercury Soccer Academy, the World All Star Soccer Camp, the Region I Olympic Development Program Camp, the Redoubt Futbol Club and the Tennessee Soccer Olympic Development Program. Lycan also spent three years during her collegiate career coaching at the University of Virginia Advanced Center of Excellence for Girls.
Lycan enjoyed an accomplished playing career at Virginia. She came to the university as part of a seven-player recruiting class that Soccer Buzz Magazine ranked No. 1 in the country. Lycan spent four years in goal at Virginia. As a senior in 2004, she helped lead the team to an Atlantic Coast Conference championship. Lycan was twice named to the ACC Honor Roll and served four years as the women's soccer representative for Virginia's Student Athlete Advisory Council. She also played on two semi-pro "W-league" teams -- the Hampton Roads Piranhas and the Memphis Mercury.
Lycan graduated from Virginia in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in anthropology. She holds an NSCAA National Diploma, a USSF National "D" License and an NSCAA Goalkeeping I Diploma.
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