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Hood College

Frederick, MD 21701
Maryland Northeast
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Molly Kovarik

Molly Kovarik was named the head coach at Hood College in December 2020.


In her second season, the Blazers returned to the MAC Commonwealth playoffs for the first time since 2019, hosting a first round contest. Hood placed five student-athletes on the All-MAC Commonwealth squad, including second team picks Priya Nair and Brenna Ellenberger.


Kovarik comes to Hood from Washington College, where she served as an assistant coach for the 2019 season. During her season with the Shorewomen, the team produced one All-Centennial Conference selection.


Prior to her time with Washington, she spent two years as an assistant coach with the Eastern (Pa.) University women's soccer program. The Eagles had five All-Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom performers and qualified for the MAC Freedom Championships in 2017.


Kovarik yielded a productive playing career at Marian University in Wisconsin, playing four years of both soccer and basketball. She earned Northern Athletic Collegiate Conference Honors in two seasons as a defender for the Sabres in soccer and held roles as a captain in both sports.


She holds a U.S. Soccer Federation Class F License.


Kovarik graduated from Marian in 2017 with a Bachelor of Science degree in forensic science while minoring in both chemistry and biology and completed her Master of Arts in organizational leadership from Eastern in 2019.

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Rosie Weaver

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James Dempsey

James Dempsey joined the Hood College coaching staff in the summer of 2023.


Dempsey hails originally from Galway, Ireland and comes to Hood College after a successful playing and coaching career in Mississippi and Colorado. Dempsey made the move over to the United States in 2017 to play for Pearl River Community College men’s soccer program under head coach Drew Gallant. In 2017, Dempsey and the team won the Mississippi state championship and advanced to the national tournament. The following season Dempsey made the move to Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi under the leadership of head coach James Gledhill, a previous Temple University women's soccer coach. Dempsey went on to be a pivotal part of the Blazers’ attack, starting as a center forward for the three seasons that followed, helping the Blazers qualify for the American Southwest Conference playoffs three years in a row, posting winning records each year and ranking No. 25 in the nation in 2019.


Throughout Dempsey’s collegiate playing career, he also coached multiple Mississippi Rush soccer club youth teams while pursuing his degree in Sports management.


After graduating Dempsey made the move to Colorado Springs where he coached at Colorado Pride soccer club and was the head boys coach at Vista Ridge High School. Dempsey returned to Mississippi the following year to begin a master's degree in business administration from Belhaven University, where he joined the staff as a volunteer assistant coach. That same year, Dempsey became the assistant boys' soccer coach at Hartfield Academy, helping the program win their first Division 1 Mississippi state championship.

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Xavier Djiki

Xavier Djiki joined the Hood College men's soccer staff in the summer of 2023.


Coach Xavier comes to Hood after spending a full year on the men's soccer coaching staff at Howard University.


A 2020 graduate from York (Pa.) with a Bachelor of Science in supply chain & operations management, he helped lead the Spartans that received votes in the top 25 in 2018.


Coach Xavier currently holds a USSF D & C License and has had extensive experience as the assistant at then Olympiacos DC & now Arlington SA growing them to a National Powerhouse in the UPSL (fourth tier of US Soccer) with an overall record of 39 W 13 T 13 L.


At Howard University, he focused on individual player development, helping Bryson Baker finish as the second highest goal scorer at the program in the last decade.


He is currently the head coach of Motorik FC, a semi-professional team based out of Alexandria, Virginia.


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