Alabama Soccer Hires Teresa Patterson as Assistant Coach
7/31/2003 12:00:00 AM | Soccer
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University of Alabama head women’s soccer coach Don Staley has announced the hiring of Teresa Patterson as an assistant coach.
“We’re very excited and fortunate to have the opportunity to add Teresa to our staff,” said Staley. “Anytime you have the chance to hire somebody with head coaching experience you have to jump at it.”
Patterson spent the past five seasons as the head coach at Marshall University where she began the soccer program in 1997. Prior to the 1999 season, Patterson was selected to coach the South Select Team at the United States Amateur Soccer Association in Portland, Oregon. Patterson proved her coaching ability by leading the South Team, comprised of then current and former collegiate players, to the gold medal.
“I’m very excited to join Coach Staley and his staff and to get the opportunity to work in the SEC, one of the elite conferences in the country,” said Patterson. “I hope to help this program win some championships while also helping the athletes to reach their goals.”
Prior to her arrival at Marshall Patterson spent two years as an assistant coach at UAB and one year as head coach at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia.
An All-Trans American Conference goalkeeper at Mercer University, Patterson was a four-year starter and closed our her career ranked as one of the top ten goalkeepers in Division I during the 1993 season.
