Alese Woolard
Assistant Women's Soccer Coach

Alese Woolard enters her fourth season as an assistant coach for the Missouri Southern women's soccer program.  Woolard has an NSCAA State and Regional Goalkeeping Diploma, as well as an NSCAA Advanced Regional diploma. She also serves as an assistant on Bill Gray's softball staff.

Prior to her coaching stint, Woolard enjoyed a solid two-year playing career under current head coach Trevor Wachsman.  Woolard made 14 starts in the net for the Lions and held the opposition scoreless for the final 227 minutes of the 2004 campaign.  She recorded 77 saves and two shutouts in her two years at Southern. 

Woolard also was a four-year softball athlete and was a finalist for the 2004-05 MSSU Female Athlete of the Year. As a senior, Woolard hit nine home runs, setting the Southern single-season record. In back-to-back games in 2005, she had two homers each, which is second all-time in a single game at Southern.

In that year, she had one of the most productive seasons ever as she led the Lions in average (.351), runs (40), hits (61), doubles (9), triples (3), homers (9), RBIs (37), slugging percentage (.592), and on base percentage (.392).

Woolard graduated from Southern in 2005 with a degree in Unified Science in Secondary Education and recently completed a Master of Education in Workforce Development Education with an emphasis in Adult Education from the University of Arkansas.

Academy Staff
The academy staff will include the Coaches of the Women’s Soccer program at Missouri Southern Sate University.  Each staff member relies on substantial playing and coaching experiences at all levels to provide a fun and challenging environment for each participant.  Also assisting the staff will be current players from the Women’s team.