Paul Vasconcelos
	Title: Head Coach, Women's Soccer Email: wsoccer@lesley.edu Phone: 617.868.9600 x2321 Career Record: 30-7-3, 13-4-1 in conference

Paul Vasconcelos enters his fourth year as head coach for the women's soccer team at Lesley University.  In his first year, the women's program 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 Division III program in the country.  As a result Vasconcelos was selected as the 2007 North Atlantic Conference Coach of the Year.

Over the next two seasons, Vasconcelos led the Lynx to a combined 31-8-3 record.  In both the 2008 and 2009 seasons Lesley reached the New England Collegiate Conference Championship match, winning in 2009 over Mitchell College.  Vasconcelos earned Coach of the Year honors in both 2008 and 2009 and coached a total of 11 All-Conference players, including one Player of the Year and two Rookies 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 three seasons leading the Lions to two straight GNAC Conference semifinals.

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 Division III New England Regional Advisory Committee and was recently made the NECC Representative for the NSCAA Ranking Committee.

Coach Vasconcelos commented on his opportunity with the women's program, "My staff and I are dedicated to recruiting top flight student-athletes to come in and make an immediate impact to our already successful program.  We look to be one of the top programs in the NECC for years to come."