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Marymount University

Arlington, VA 22207
Virginia Northeast
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Heather Lipp

Heather Lipp heads into her second season at the helm of the Marymount women's soccer program in 2023.


In 2022, she led the Saints to their first playoff win since 1993, moving forward in postseason play with a 5-1 win over Centenary. Marymount posted an overall record of 6-9-5, 1-3-2 in Atlantic East Play in 2022.


Under Lipp's leadership, MU notched their first Atlantic East Player of the Year in Laney Placido, who also earned AEC Woman of the Year and All-Conference First Team for her efforts on and off of the pitch.


Lipp served in an interim capacity with the Saints from the midpoint of the 2021 campaign and led the team to the Atlantic East Conference postseason. Under Lipp’s watch, the Blue and White posted a 4-2 record in conference play and earned the third seed in the conference playoffs. She also mentored a trio of Saints to Atlantic East All-Conference First Team nods.


Prior to joining Marymount, Lipp served as an assistant coach at The College of the Holy Cross, an NCAA Division I institution in Worcester, Massachusetts, from 2008 to 2015. Lipp helped the Crusaders amass 39 wins during her tenure, which included a strong 10-5-3 record during the 2014 campaign. During her time at Holy Cross, Lipp mentored 11 All-Patriot League performers, three CoSIDA Academic All-District honorees, two All-Mid-Atlantic Region award winners, and two All-New England Region honorees.


Before joining the Crusaders, Lipp served as an assistant coach at Clark University in Worcester Massachusetts from 2007 to 2008, and as an assistant coach at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, from 2004 to 2007. She has also served as the head coach of the New England Football Club (2011-2015), the Massachusetts Olympic Development Program U12 and U16 teams, and the Puma Soccer Club (2008-2011).


She holds a United States Soccer Federation National B License. Lipp was a four-year member of the women’s soccer team at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio, and graduated in 1988.


Her husband, Evan, works in enrollment management at Marymount. She has two adult sons, Coupar and Jake, and a daughter-in-law Susie. She and her husband live in Middleburg, Virginia. In her free time, Heather enjoys birding and community conservation.

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Nathan Kalin

Nate Kalin enters his fifth season at the helm of Marymount men’s soccer in 2023. He was named the fourth head coach in program history in March 2019.


Kalin has led Marymount to a 33-28-5 mark over his first four seasons and the Saints haven’t had a losing season under his direction. Over his 14-year head coaching career, he holds a 113-113-8 record.


During his tenure at Marymount, Kalin has had 14 All-Conference selections, six All-State selections, and three All-Region selections. He has coached the Atlantic East Rookie of the Year in back-to-back seasons (Leo Torres – 2021, Bayron Banegas – 2022) with Banegas also being named Rookie of the Year by the Virginia Sports Information Directors (VaSID). Kalin and his staff were named Atlantic East Coaching Staff of the Year in both 2019 and 2022.


In 2022, Kalin led the Saints to the best season in program history with a 12-7-1 mark and an Atlantic East championship. Marymount also qualified for the NCAA Tournament and dropped a hard-fought first round matchup 1-0 to Mary Washington, who advanced all the way to the Final Four. The historic season marked the first conference championship and NCAA appearance in program history.


Under Kalin’s direction, Leo Torres has continued to make his mark on the record book. After just two seasons, Torres holds program records (single-season and career) for goals and points. Torres also became just the second MU player since 2001 to score eight points in a game after scoring three goals and two assists against Gallaudet on Oct. 12, 2022.


Additionally, Derek Rivera broke the program’s all-time assists record in 2022 and tied for the single-season assist record. The Saints also broke or tied team records for wins, winning percentage, conference wins, best conference record, longest winning and unbeaten streak, goals scored, fewest goals allowed, and shutouts.


In 2021, he led Marymount to an Atlantic East semifinals appearance for the second straight time. Torres became the first Saint to earn All-Region accolades, adding the distinction to a trophy case that also included Atlantic East Rookie of the Year and VaSID Rookie of the Year.


In Kalin’s first season in 2019, he led Marymount to its first 10-win season in program history with a 10-10-1 record and an appearance in the ECAC Tournament. The Saints fell to Immaculata in penalty kicks in the Atlantic East semifinals.


Prior to his time at Marymount, Kalin spent a season at NCAA D-I Albany as the first assistant on the nationally-ranked men's soccer team. While he was there, he mentored a squad that went to the America East Championship for the second straight season and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament after defeating Maryland in the first round.


He spent the 2016 season at The College of New Rochelle in New York for the inaugural season of the men's soccer team. In just four months, Kalin recruited a team of 15 freshmen that set an NCAA-best record of 16-3 for a first-year program. The team led Division III that season in scoring with 4.3 goals per game, while coaching a freshman that led the country in scoring (30 goals, 20 assists) before being named ECAC Player of the Year and Association of Division 3 Independents (AD3I) National Player of the Year. A record first season also had Kalin named AD3I National Coach of the Year.


The rest of his coaching career was in the Skyline Conference, working with the College of Mount Saint Vincent from 2013-15 and New York University – Polytechnic Institute from 2007-13.


In his first season with MSV, he turned a team that went 2-10-1 the previous season to 12-5-2, the second-best single-season turnaround in NCAA Division III. In his three years with the Dolphins, he posted 33 wins while advancing to the Skyline playoffs in two of the seasons.


His longest tenure at a school was his first head coaching job at Polytech, guiding the program for six seasons, again turning around a struggling history to become a regional contender. He advanced the team to the Skyline playoffs in three of his last four seasons, while posting a program-best mark of 12-5-2 in 2010. He was also named Skyline Coach of the Year in 2009.


Beyond his coaching experience, he was also on several committees for the NCAA including the Regional Advisory Committee and the Soccer Rules Committee.

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