Cedarville University

Cedarville, OH 45314

Ohio Midwest

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Jonathan Meade

Jonathan Meade has been the head coach of the Cedarville University women’s soccer team since the 2016 season and is the third head coach in the program’s history.

He has guided the Lady Jackets to 80 victories in seven seasons, back-to-back NCAA Division II Championship berths in both 2021 and 2022, the 2019 NCCAA National Championship banner, and three consecutive runner-up finishes in the G-MAC Tournament.

Meade was named the G-MAC Coach of the Year and the NCCAA Midwest Region Coach of the Year in both 2021 and 2022.

He’s also earned 2019 and 2022 NCCAA Coach of the Year accolades and his staff was recognized as the 2019 United Soccer Coaches NCCAA Coaching Staff of the Year.

Meade is a 1995 graduate of Mount Vernon Nazarene University where he was a four-year letter winner on the men’s soccer team.

Jonathan and his wife, DeAnn, are the parents of three daughters and reside in Springfield.

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Hannah Shay

Former Lady Jacket soccer defender Hannah (Velloney) Shay was named assistant coach at Cedarville University beginning with the 2021-22 academic year.

She returned to her alma mater with coaching experience at the collegiate, high school, middle school, and club levels.

Shay’s resume includes serving as assistant coach at NCAA Division I St. Bonaventure in Olean, N.Y. during the 2019-20 academic year. She helped the Bonnies to an improvement of five victories over the preceding season.

The Chesapeake, Va. native was a coach for the Chesapeake United Soccer Club. She previously was an assistant coach at Hudson (Ohio) Middle School and later was an assistant coach at Oscar Smith High School in her hometown.

Shay was a two-time team captain during her injury-shortened career from 2013-16. She started all 41 games in the back during her freshman and sophomore campaigns.

She appeared in just one more game her junior and senior seasons. However, she served as a team captain both years including the 2015 G-MAC Tournament title squad that earned the league’s first-ever automatic berth to the NCAA Division II Championship.

Shay started all 42 games in which she played as a Lady Jacket with four goals and two assists for ten points. She was a two-time selection to the G-MAC Academic Team.

Shay is a 2017 Dean’s Honor List graduate of Cedarville University with a degree in biology. She earned a master’s in theological studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 2019.

Hannah and her husband, Ryan, reside in Cedarville with their twin daughters, who were born January 4, 2021.

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Dr. Kevin Roper

Kevin Roper has been coaching soccer for more than 40 years and continues as a goalkeeper coach for the Lady Jackets. He returned to the coaching staff in 2001 after previously serving as an assistant from 1995 through 1997.

Roper was a member of the coaching staff at Munro College in Jamaica from 1979-85 and again in 1997-99. He later served as goalkeeper coach at NCAA Division I Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina from 1985-88 and has long been active in various soccer camps.

A 1979 graduate of Southampton University in England, Dr. Roper earned his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1995. He attained a master’s degree in education from the University of South Carolina in 1988.

Roper is a professor of mathematics at Cedarville University. His wife, Lynn, is an assistant professor of special education at the University.

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Brett Faro

Brett Faro has been the head men’s soccer coach at Cedarville University since the 2013 season.

He guided the Yellow Jackets to their first-ever NCAA Division II Championship appearance in 2015 as well as berths in 2019 and 2021. CU advanced to the second round each time.

Faro coached the Jackets to consecutive Great Midwest Athletic Conference championships in 2013, 2014, and 2015. He is a three-time G-MAC Coach of the Year and a three-time NCCAA Midwest Region Coach of the Year.

Faro’s teams have made ten straight appearances in the G-MAC Tournament semifinals and advanced to the title match six times.

Prior to becoming the head coach, Faro served as the program’s top assistant in 2011 and 2012. CU went 31-10-4 those two years while winning the 2011 NCCAA Midwest Region banner and placing third at the national tournament.

Faro is a 2009 graduate of Messiah with a degree in sports management. He was a Dean’s List student at the school and was recognized as an NSCAA Academic All-Region Scholar-Athlete.

Faro earned a master’s degree in coaching and athletic administration from Concordia University Irvine (Calif.) in 2014. He also possesses an NSCAA National Diploma and a TOVO Academy Diploma in Spain.

Brett and his wife, Shelley, reside in Xenia with their son, Lincoln.

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Jon-Eric Stiles

Jon-Eric Stiles has been on the men’s soccer staff as an assistant coach since the beginning of the 2022-23 academic year.

He came to the Yellow Jackets after serving as the head men’s soccer coach at Clarks Summit University in Pennsylvania for two seasons.

Stiles was previously the men’s and women’s soccer assistant coach at University of Valley Forge for one year.

He also spent one year as the graduate assistant men’s soccer coach at Mount Vernon Nazarene University.

Stiles was a four-year collegiate player with his first two seasons at Kentucky Christian University before transferring to Ohio Christian University for his final two years.

He achieved NCCAA All-America honors in 2013, was a two-time All-NCCAA Mideast selection, and was twice named an NAIA Scholar-Athlete.

Stiles is a 2017 graduate of Ohio Christian with a double major in business and sport management. He earned a master’s in business administration from Mount Vernon Nazarene in 2020.

Jon-Eric and his wife Grace (Miorelli), who was a four-year All-America soccer player with the Lady Jackets, reside in Fairborn.