women's soccer

Head Coach Paul Vasconcelos

Paul Vasconcelos came on board as the new women’s head soccer coach at Lesley University in 2007. In just his first year, the womens’ program at Lesley has made a remarkable turn around, improving to 14-4-1 in the 2007 season and getting into the record books as the NCAA all-time most improved Div III program in the country. As a result Vasconcelos was selected as the 2007 North Atlantic Conference Coach of the Year.

In 2002 he was appointed the Assistant Coach at Milton Academy where he stayed on for just one season, before leaving to become the Assistant Soccer Coach at Emerson College. At Emerson he helped lead the Lions to their best record in the programs history in just his first year. He stayed at Emerson for 3 seasons leading the Lions to two straight GNAC Conference semi-finals.

In 2004 he was hired as a full time staff coach at South Coast Scorpions a premier girls club based out of Braintree, in his time there he trained some of the top female players in the state. A member of the US Soccer Coaches Organization and the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, Vasconcelos holds the USSF National C License, KNVB Dutch Advanced License and NSCAA Director of Coaching Diploma along with a few international licenses. He has recently been hired as the Massachusetts ODP State U14 assistant girls coach. Currently he is the Director of Coaching at Eastern Mass FC, a premier youth club based out of Canton, Massachusetts. Coach Vasconcelos is also a member of the NCAA Div III New England Regional Advisory Committee.

Coach Vasconcelos commented on his opportunity with the women’s program, “my staff and I are very excited about this new challenge and have already started aggressively recruiting top players to come in and make an immediate impact to the program. We look to be one of the top programs in the NECC for years to come.”

Assistant Coach Bobby Desilets