Stephanie Ricketts-Preston '07
Bio
- 2023 marks her sixth season as head coach
- Posted 36 wins as a head coach at Goucher
- Milestone wins: (1) vs. Methodist, 9-2-17. (25) vs. Gettysburg 9/1/22
- Coached one First Team, seven Second Team and one Honorable Mention Landmark Conference All-Conference
selections
- Guided the Gophers to their most-ever Landmark victories in 2021 and to the program's
first-ever ECAC berth in 2022.
- Previously served as the Student-Athletic Advisory Committee advisor
- Holds a National “C” license from the United States Soccer Federation
and a National Goalkeeping Diplomas from the NSCAA
- Served as the Sarah Lawrence head coach and event manager in 2016
- In her one season at Sarah Lawrence, the team posted the most overall and
conference wins in program history
- Served as the assistant coach at Goucher from 2013 to 2015
- The Gophers won 20 games and she coached four All-Landmark Conference players
in her time as an assistant
- Coached 12 all-conference players as an assistant coach at Westminster
from 2010 to 2012
- Helped Westminster to the championship game in the President Athletic Conference
in her first season
- Started her coaching career as an assistant coach at Adrian from 2007 to 2010
- Served as the interim head coach at Adrian in the spring of 2008
- In her last season at Adrian, the team finished second in the league and
coached an all-league second-team performer
- Graduated with honors and a degree in psychology from Goucher in 2007
- A four-year letterwinner on the women’s soccer team, Ricketts-Preston is the
fourth player in program history to record 300 saves.
- Ricketts-Preston finished with the second-highest save percentage (.823) in the
Capital Athletic Conference and accumulated 149 saves