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Babson College

Babson Park, MA 02457
Massachusetts Northeast
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Nellie Pineault

Nellie Pineault is in her 14th season as the head women’s soccer coach at Babson in 2023.


After serving as an assistant coach for the Beavers from 2004-09, Pineault became just the fifth head coach in program history prior to the 2010 campaign. The Green and White have finished at .500 or better in 11 of her 12 seasons, and she has led the program to 10 or more victories on six occasions in the way to a 124-75-36 overall record (.604 winning percentage).


Babson is coming off one of its most successful seasons under Pineault in 2022. The Beavers matched the 2015 squad with 14 wins, the most under Pineault, and last year's squad captured seven New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) victories (7-2-1), the most in her tenure. Babson also earned its first All-American since Julie Tienken '94 in 1992 and 1993 when Morgan Fedosiewicz '23 was named to the United Soccer Coaches All-America first team in 2022.


Pineault led Babson to an 11-7-2 mark and a spot in the NEWMAC Tournament final in her first season at the helm in 2010. The Beavers advanced to the conference semifinals in three consecutive years between 2012-14, and had a historic 2015 campaign, going 14-4-5 on the way to advancing to the conference tournament final and earning the first NCAA Tournament berth in program history. Pineault guided the Beavers to seven consecutive shutouts to end the 2021 campaign, establishing a program record of 758 scoreless minutes that surpassed the 2008 squad, which went 712 minutes between goals allowed.


The Beavers squad earned national recognition in 2022 after appearing in the United Soccer Coaches Division III poll, reaching as high as 10th for two weeks in September.


In addition to leading the Green and White to a pair of NEWMAC Tournament final appearances, Pineault's teams have advanced to the league semifinals eight times in 11 seasons. The Beavers also have recorded eight top-four finishes in the league standings under Pineault, who recorded the 100th win of her career in November 2019 as the Beavers defeated Mount Holyoke, 5-0.


A 1999 graduate of Saint Michael’s College, Pineault has coached one All-American, 38 all-conference selections and has seen her players earn 18 United Soccer Coaches and NEWISA All-New England honors since 2010. Pineault, who earned her MBA from Babson in 2003, helped the Green and White go 60-38-19 with one NEWMAC Tournament finals appearance in six years as an assistant coach. Additionally, her twin sister Christine played soccer and basketball as an undergraduate at Babson.

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Tim Mason

Tim Mason is in his seventh season as an assistant women’s soccer coach at Babson in 2023 and his second year as a full-time assistant.


Since joining the Babson staff prior to the 2017 season, Mason has helped Beavers to three NEWMAC Tournament semifinal appearances. The team recorded its highest winning percentage (.605) in six years in 2021 while recording nine consecutive shutouts to end the season and followed that up with a 14-4-1 record (.763) and its first national ranking in 2022..


An experienced coach with over a decade of experience, Mason served as the Metro Boston Director of Coaching for the New England Surf Soccer Club since 2020. Prior to joining New England Surf, he worked for Global Premier Soccer (GPS) from 2008-14 and coached for the Scorpions Soccer Club from 2014-20.


In addition to his club experience, Mason had a highly-successful stint as the boys varsity soccer coach at Wellesley High School from 2010-18. He led his teams to four league titles and nine consecutive MIAA Tournament appearances, culminating with the Raiders winning the 2018 Division I South sectional title to advance to the state championship game. Additionally, Mason was selected as the 2017 Eastern Massachusetts Soccer Coaches Association (EMSCA) Division I South Coach of the Year and earned Boston Globe Coach of the Year honors in 2018.


A native of Northampton, England, Mason played three years of collegiate soccer while earning his bachelor's degree in sports and exercise science from De Montfort University in Leicester, England.

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Hannah Matlack

Hannah Matlack is in her second season as an assistant women’s soccer at Babson College in 2023. She was on board in 2022 when the Beavers finished 14-4-1 and posted their best winning percentage (.763) in nearly three decades.


A 2016 graduate of Dickinson College, Matlack was a four-year standout on defense for the Red Devils. A three-time all-region and Centennial Conference first-team selection, Matlack started each of her 66 career games and was a four-time team most valuable player selection.


Matlack began her coaching career at the New Hampton School, where she served as the head varsity girls’ soccer coach along with teaching French. She was a volunteer assistant coach for the U14 girls' team at Falkirk FC in Scotland while earning her master’s degree from the University of Sterling, and spent a year as a coach with the Scorpions Soccer Club beginning in August 2020.


Matlack, who started as an assistant coach in 2018 and is now the soccer coordinator at the Berkshire Soccer Academy during the summer months, has served as an instructor at Semester Off in Wellesley since August 2021.

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Erald Hysi

Erald Hysi is in his second season as an assistant women’s soccer coach at Babson College in 2023. He was on board in 2022 when the Beavers finished 14-4-1 and posted their best winning percentage (.763) in nearly three decades.


Hysi joined the Beavers’ coaching staff after spending the 2021 campaign as an assistant coach at Regis College in Weston. The Pride went 8-6-2 and posted five shutouts while conceding one goal or fewer in 11 of 16 matches.


Hysi, who has served as the director of goalkeeping of the New England Surf Soccer Club since December 2020, spent the fall of 2021 as a goalkeeper coach at the Roxbury Latin School. He was the director of goalkeeping at the Abbey Villa Soccer Club in Hopkinton, Mass., during the fall of 2020 after starting his club coaching career with Global Premier Soccer (GPS) in September 2018.


A native of Albania, Hysi played professional soccer in his native country for nearly a decade beginning in 2008. He earned his bachelor of arts degree from Ismail Qemali University in Vlore, Albania, in 2012.

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Jon Anderson

Jon Anderson ’75, who was inducted into the Babson Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013, is in his 38th season as the Beavers’ head men’s soccer coach in 2023.


One of the longest-tenured coaches in college soccer, Anderson ranks fifth among active Division III coaches and 19th all-time with 428 wins. He boasts a .671 winning percentage and has led Babson to 15 conference championships and 19 NCAA Tournament appearances.


Anderson helped the Green and White earn six consecutive NCAA Tournament bids from 1988-93. The Beavers advanced to the second round in both 1989 and 1990 before finishing 18-4-1 and reaching the national semifinals in 1991. His 1992 team went 15-1-2 and won the first of two straight CAC titles before being ousted on penalty kicks in the second round of the NCAA Championship.


Anderson guided the Beavers to NEWMAC Tournament titles and NCAA Tournament appearances in both 2002 and 2004, and going back to 2008 the Green and White has won six conference championships and participated in the NCAA Tournament nine times. Babson reached the sectional semifinals in 2010 and followed it up with a 20-game unbeaten streak in 2011 on the way to advancing to the NCAA Sweet 16 for the second year in a row.


The Beavers won back-to-back NEWMAC titles in 2014 and 2015, made a third straight NCAA appearance in 2016 and went unbeaten in league play on the way to claiming both conference regular season and tournament titles in 2019. The Green and White bounced back from a COVID-19 cancelled 2020 season to capture NEWMAC Tournament championships in 2021 and 2022, earning the program's 18th and 19th NCAA Tournament appearance under Anderson, including a second round appearance in 2021.


Anderson has earned 10 conference coach of the year awards and three regional coach honors, and his players have garnered 25 All-America, 82 NSCAA/United Soccer Coaches All-New England and 143 all-conference accolades. He also helped the Beavers go unbeaten in 40 straight matches against NEWMAC foes between 2008-13.


Anderson was a three-year starter for the Beavers, who went 56-5-4 and earned three NCAA Tournament berths between 1972-75, culminating with Babson’s first national championship in his senior year. The Beavers went 17-0-1 to record the only unbeaten season in program history, defeating Brockport, 1-0, in the 1975 Division III title game.


A well-respected lecturer and director of the popular Babson and Perfect Touch Soccer Academy camps, Anderson resides with his family in Scituate, Mass. Two of his four children, Eric ’13 and Emily ’13, played soccer at Babson. Eric graduated as the all-time leading scorer and only two-time first-team All-American in program history.

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Erik Sundsted

Erik Sundsted in in his 15th season as an assistant coach for the Babson men’s soccer program in 2023.


During his time with the program, the Beavers have won 173 games, claimed seven NEWMAC tournament championships, eight regular season titles, and have reached the NCAA Tournament 10 times. He is honored to have coached six All-Americans, eight conference players of the year, and numerous all-league and All-New England players.


A graduate of Syracuse University, Sundsted enjoyed tremendous success on the field, starting at midfield and forward for three nationally-ranked teams. He currently holds the SU school records for most goals and most total points in a game and helped lead the Orange to an NCAA Tournament appearance and the school's second Big East Conference Championship.


He also played his freshman year at Ohio Wesleyan University, where he started at forward and led the team in assists during a campaign in which they were ranked fifth in the nation and advanced to the NCAA Quarterfinals.


Sundsted continued to play after college at the professional and semi-professional level for the Torrance Aztecs (Los Angeles, CA) and Faialense SC (Boston, MA). Since then, he has remained active as a player for various premier teams in New England. He is currently a TV Color Analyst for NCAA games broadcast on ESPN3, NESN, Stadium Network and various conference TV platforms, and is a former Major League Soccer TV and Radio Color Commentator with the New England Revolution and USL Pro League.


A Program Director in the real estate housing industry and a small business owner, Erik is a native of Pittsford, NY and was inducted into both the Pittsford Athletic Hall of Fame and New York State Section V Soccer Hall of Fame in 2021. He is married with two children in college and resides in Natick, Mass.

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