American International College

Springfield, MA 01109

Massachusetts Northeast

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Stephanie Gordon

Stephanie Gordon was promoted to head coach on December 16, 2021. She originally joined the staff at AIC as an assistant coach for women's soccer on January 16, 2018.

In her time as an assistant coach, Gordon's impact on the team’s defensive play has been readily apparent. AIC’s team goals allowed has dropped in each of her seasons, from 1.68 goals per game in 2018 to 1.12 in 2021. That follows from a decrease in shots allowed, which has fallen from 5.84 per game in 2018 to 4.71 in 2021.

Under her tutelage, seven student-athletes have earned Northeast-10 All-Conference honors in the previous three seasons, along with five New England Women’s Intercollegiate Soccer Association All-New England and one United Soccer Coaches All-East Region honors.

A native of Rockland, Massachusetts, Gordon has spent her entire collegiate soccer career playing and coaching in the Bay State. She spent the 2008 and 2009 seasons at Northeastern University, where she went 24-12-4 with 13 shutouts and posted a .824 save percentage, helping lead the Huskies to a Colonial Athletic Association Tournament Championship in 2008, where she was named to the All-Tournament Team. The team earned a conference regular-season title the following year, with Gordon receiving Second-Team All-CAA honors. She transferred to the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and played for the Minutemen in 2011 and 2012, graduating from the University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2013.

After graduating, she began her coaching career, starting as an assistant with Simmons College in 2014 before returning to her alma mater as assistant coach from 2015 through the 2017 season. She earned a United Soccer Coaches (then NSCAA) National Diploma and Goalkeeper Diploma in June 2014.

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Meghan Dunn

Meghan Dunn was announced as Assistant Women’s Soccer Coach on May 17, 2023. Dunn will assist in all aspects of the program.

Dunn came to AIC from Dean College, where she was both assistant women’s soccer and lacrosse coach. With both teams, she assisted in nearly every aspect of the programs, including team and individualized training, game film, social media, and administrative coordination. Six players on the soccer team earned CSC Academic All-District honors, and forward Jazzy Sztyler-Magee earned All-GNAC accolades.

Dunn graduated from Nichols College in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. While there, she was a Dean’s List student who earned Academic All-Conference in 2015 and across 68 career games, scored 32 goals and nine assists for 73 points, including 12 game-winning tallies. She then earned a master’s degree in organizational leadership in 2021 while serving as an assistant coach for the Bison in 2020.

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Luke Perry

Luke Perry was elevated to the position of head coach of the American International College men’s soccer team in August 2015 after previously serving two seasons as an assistant coach. His teams have reached the NE10 Tournament in each of the last four seasons it has been held.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

Years: Head Coach (2015-present), Assistant Coach (2013-2015)

Career record: 48-47-13; 32-33-11 NE10

United Soccer Coaches Second-Team All-Region Selections: 2

United Soccer Coaches Third-Team All-Region Selections: 1

NE10 All-Conference First-Team Selections: 2

NE10 All-Conference Second-Team Selections: 7

NE10 All-Conference Third-Team Selections: 9

NE10 All-Rookie Team Selections: 10

NE10 Academic All-Conference: 2

NE10 Presidents' Award For Academic Excellence: 2

The 2021 season was unquestionably the best in AIC's history for men's soccer. A robust offense, stout defense, and brilliant goalkeeping combined to push the program to record-breaking heights. The team finished second in the NE10 and broke the program's wins record, reaching the NE10 Championship Game for the first time in program history and earning a national ranking as high as 14th in the United Soccer Coaches Poll, the first time the team had ever been ranked. Additionally, the program earned its first-ever NCAA Tournament berth, and followed by winning its first NCAA Tournament game. The season ended with a 15-5-1 mark, shattering the previous wins record. Rookie goalkeeper Lucas Morales-Fernandez set individual wins and shutouts records with 14 and eight, respectively.

In 2018, the Yellow Jackets capped an incredible second-half surge under Perry, scoring in the final two seconds of regulation to secure a 4-4 draw against No. 9 Adelphi and advance to the NE10 Tournament. There, they defeated the top seed, No. 15 Le Moyne, for the program’s first-ever postseason win. A year later, they were back at it again, this time stunning No. 6 Adelphi 3-2 in double overtime, to advance to the NE10 Semifinal for the second consecutive season -- the only team in the NE10 to advance in both seasons.

In 2016, Perry guided the Yellow Jackets to one of their most successful seasons in program history. AIC earned its sixth postseason appearance in team history with a 6-6-1 conference record, the second-best league mark of all time for the Yellow Jackets.

Perry spent two seasons under former AIC head coach Fred Balbino as an assistant coach. With Perry patrolling the sidelines, the Yellow Jackets amassed a record of 15-17-3 and earned a trip to the Northeast-10 postseason in 2014.

Since Perry joined the coaching staff in 2013, more than 250 men's soccer athletes have been named to the NE10 Commissioner's Honor Roll.

After finishing his Youth Team Scholarship at a professional soccer club in England, Perry joined Lees McRae College in 2009, making a significant impact during their 2009 National Runner-Up season. During his two years in North Carolina, Perry was a regular starter, tallying seven goals and 21 assists.

While at Lees McRae, he was a Conference Carolina All-Conference first team selection in 2010, third team selection in 2009 and Freshman of the Year. After transferring to neighboring Northeast-10 program, Southern Connecticut State University, Perry was a captain and regular starter before graduating in 2013.

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Jake Durham

One of the most decorated players in program history, Jake Durham '20 was named Assistant Coach prior to the start of the 2022 season after serving as Graduate Assistant Coach from 2020-22, and will assist in all aspects of the program. Additionally, he will serve as the head coach of the club men's soccer program.

In Durham's first season as graduate assistant, the Yellow Jackets made history, springing into the national rankings for the first time ever and earning their first NE10 Championship Game and NCAA Tournament berths as the team won a record 15 games during the 2021 campaign.

The Bolton, England native joined the staff after spending the previous four season on the pitch, and a senior campaign as team captain. During his playing career, he scored 22 goals and had 13 assists in 66 games with seven game-winning goals. He was an All-Conference selection in all four seasons, including a First-Team All-NE10 honor as a senior in 2019 that marked the first for the program since 2012.

No stranger to success, some of the biggest goals in Durham's career came in postseason play. He struck a tying penalty against No. 15 Le Moyne in his junior season in 2018 as AIC earned its first-ever NE10 Championship Tournament win by stunning the top-seeded Dolphins 2-1, and in 2019 he scored the tying and winning goals, the latter in double overtime, at No. 6 Adelphi to make AIC the only team to reach the NE10 Semifinal in both seasons.

Durham graduated from the College in 2020 with a bachelor's degree in sports management and earned his MBA in 2022.

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Derek Pereira

Derek Pereira '20 was promoted to assistant coach prior to the 2022 season, one year after he returned to his alma mater as a graduate assistant coach, helping to lead a squad he had captained as a senior in 2019. He will assist in all aspects of the program.

In Pereira's first season behind the bench, AIC set a program wins record with 15, reaching the NE10 Finals and the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history.

A four-year letterwinner, Pereira appeared in 30 games over his AIC career. He was a steady defender and his calm leadership was critical to the squad's success; he helped lead the team to back-to-back postseason wins for the first time in program history in 2018 and 2019.

A native of nearby Taunton, Massachusetts, Pereira graduated in the spring of 2020 with a bachelor's degree in business management and in 2022 with an MBA.