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Drew University

Madison, NJ 07940
New Jersey Northeast
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Christa Racine

Christa Racine has led the Drew University women's soccer program since 1994. The program’s all-time leader in wins, Racine has been named the Coach of the Year three times and in 1994 was named the DIII Coach of the Year by the CSANJ. She has led her teams to 16 conference playoff appearances, seven ECAC Tournament appearances and two NCAA Tournament berths.


Racine coached Drew University to the 2013 Landmark Conference Championship as the No. 3 seed in the league's postseason tournament. The Rangers went on the road to No. 2 Juniata College - where they lost 3-0 in the final game of the regular season - and pulled out a dramatic 3-2 overtime victory in the semifinals. At top-seeded University of Scranton, Drew took a 1-1 tie into a penalty shootout and won the conference crown after a 4-3 victory in the shootout.


The 2013 championship is Racine's second career league title after winning the Freedom Conference in 1997 with a 1-0 win over Elizabethtown College.


The 2010 Rangers put together one of the best seasons in school history after 15 wins and the first ever ECAC Tournament Championship. Racine had seven of her players listed on the Landmark All-Conference Team, establishing a new program mark.


A native of Morris County, Racine was an All-American at local high school Morris Catholic prior to attending Rutgers University. She led the Scarlet Knights to a four-year record of 50-24-7, with three consecutive ECAC Championships from 1990-1992. Her 39 career goals and 99 career points are third in school history and she holds the record for most assists in a game with four. Racine was most recently honored by the Newark Star Ledger as a member of New Jersey's “All-Century” Team.


Following her outstanding collegiate career, the Regional All-American played in the Olympic Festival, starring for the gold medal winning East Team in 1994. A USSF "A" license coach, Racine teaches coaching certification courses for the state of New Jersey. In addition to her duties as women's soccer coach, Racine serves as Drew's Director of Athletics. Prior to her appointment as AD, she was Associate Director of Athletics and Senior Woman Administrator at Drew.

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Melanie Santos

Former Ranger standout and Landmark Conference championship hero Melanie Santos enters her first season as an assistant women's soccer coach in 2023.


Santos was a four-year starter in the midfield and a two-time All-Landmark Conference recipient under current Head Coach Christa Racine from 2012-15. During her sophomore campaign, Santos posted career-highs in goals (five), assists (two), and points (12) while helping to lead the Rangers to a 15-4-1 record. In one of the top moments in team history, she booted in the fourth and final goal in penalty kicks versus Scranton in the 2013 Landmark Conference final, clinching the program's first Landmark title.


For her career, Santos played in 74 games and started every match over her last three seasons, finishing with 16 goals, four assists, and 36 points. In addition to helping the Rangers to their 2013 Landmark Conference title, she also helped the squad reach the Landmark playoffs in both 2012 and 2014. She captured a spot on the All-Landmark Second Team in each of her last two seasons.

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James Wiegand

James Wiegand enters his fourth season as an assistant coach of the Drew University women's soccer team in 2022. In addition to his coaching duties at Drew, he serves as a trainer for MatchFit Academy.


Wiegand entered the college ranks after a highly-successful high school coaching career. He was named the 2018 Morris County Boys Soccer Coach of the Year as the head coach of Parsippany Hills High School after helping the Vikings reach the final of the Morris County Tournament. It was the second time he was named Morris County Coach of the Year, as he also earned the honor as the head boys soccer coach at Dover High School in 2013, when he was also lauded as the All State North Jersey Coach of the Year. Wiegand led Dover to consecutive conference championships in 2012-13.


Wiegand also served as the Pasco Soccer Club Director of Training from 2011-14.

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Lenny Armuth

Lenny Armuth has been at the helm of the men’s soccer program since 1994 and in that time has become the most successful coach in the history of the program. With nine Conference Coach of the Year, two NSCAA Regional Coach of the Year, an ECAC Coach of the Year, and a NSCAA/Adidas National Coach of the Year award to his name, Armuth has established himself as one of the elite coaches in the country. His Ranger teams have captured nine conference titles, including a pair of Landmark Conference crowns, further proving the quality of Armuth’s work. No stranger to the NCAA Tournament, his teams have gone to the Big Dance nine times, including their first-ever NCAA Championship game appearance in 2003 where the Rangers finished second in the nation. Most recently, his 2017 squad reached the NCAA Sweet 16 for the third time under Armuth's guidance.


In addition to being a conference powerhouse, Armuth has guided the Rangers to 15 ECAC Tournaments. His teams have claimed three ECAC championships, including in 2018, two years after the conference went to one tournament to crown a single ECAC champion.


In the 2015 season opener on September 1, Armuth recorded his 300th career victory at Drew as the Rangers defeated Swarthmore College 1-0 at Ranger Stadium. The milestone cemented his name in the top 25 of college soccer coaches in both winning percentage and total wins across all three NCAA divisions.


Prior to Drew, Armuth was an assistant with the Rutgers University men’s team that reached the NCAA Tournament in 1993 and head coach of the Kean College women’s squad that was consistently ranked in the Top 10.


As a player, the Maplewood, N.J. native was an All-American at Columbia High School in 1981 and a captain at the University of South Florida. He played professionally and with the United States Maccabi teams which he later coached as well. He and his wife, Sara Jane, have two boys: Jeremy and Matthew.

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Alan McClintock

Alan McClintock was promoted to the role of assistant coach for the 2016 season. McClintock joined head coach Lenny Armuth’s coaching staff as a volunteer assistant in 2015. In 2017, he helped guide the Rangers to the Landmark Conference title as well as a berth in the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Division III tournament. One year later, he helped coach Drew to the ECAC title.


A Northern Ireland native, he brings over 15 years of experience in coaching youth soccer both here in the United States and in the United Kingdom.


McClintock is the Director of Soccer at United Soccer Academy, a youth training organization based out of Bound Brook, N.J. He also served as the boys' assistant varsity coach at Summit High School from 2010-16. In addition, he has significant experience coaching high school players locally with Summit SC, Scotch Plains SC and Soccer For Life programs.


His soccer coaching licenses include FA Level 1 and 2, UEFA B, USSF D, USC Director of Coaching, National and Advanced National Diplomas.


McClintock graduated in 2004 from Liverpool John Moores University in England with a BA honors degree in sport development and physical education.

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Cesar Barrientos

Cesar Barrientos joined head coach Lenny Armuth's staff in the summer of 2009. As the Rangers' goalkeeping coach, Barrientos helped the Rangers to an ECAC championship in his first season and again in 2018. He also helped guide Drew to the Landmark Conference title and a berth in the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Division III tournament in 2017.


In addition to his coaching duties, Barrientos serves as Drew's athletic equipment and facilities manager.


Prior to coming to Drew, through his passion and knowledge of the game Barrientos has coached and trained at a number of clubs and/or schools. Following graduation, he coached the goalkeepers at his alma mater, Madison High School, for six years. Between coaching at Madison and joining the Drew men’s soccer program, he was a U18 coach at Primo United, trained goalkeepers at Primo Soccer Club, and coached at both Chatham United Villa Walsh and Madison Soccer Club. Barrientos has his goalkeeper state, regional and national diplomas from the United Soccer Coaches.


Aside from coaching, Barrientos spent two years with the New York/New Jersey MetroStars.

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