Northern Arizona University

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P.O. Box 5772 or 1 Skydome Drive Flagstaff, AZ 86011

Division 1 Arizona

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Alan Berrios

Alan Berrios was officially named the head coach of the NAU Women's Soccer team in December of 2022.

Berrios returned to NAU after spending the 2020 season at Southeastern University in Lakeland, FL. He guided the fire to a 17-2-1 record. The fire won the Sun Conference regular season title and the Sun Conference tournament title beating the #1 team in the country twice and earning an automatic birth to the NAIA National Championships. The fire were ranked nationally in the top 10 all year long and went into the national tournament as the # 2 team in the country. He led the fire to the NAIA National quarter-finals.

Prior to SEU, Berrios helped guide the Lumberjacks to an 8-8-3 record, and qualified for postseason play losing to eventual champion Northern Colorado in the Big Sky Conference tournament quarterfinal. He spent the previous season with NCAA Division II Dixie State University, as an assistant coach. During his time at DSU, he helped guide the program to the RMAC Conference Tournament making it to the conference semi-final before bowing out to conference tournament champions Colorado School of Mines. During his time at DSU, he was in charge of recruiting and the defensive back line.

Berrios spent four seasons as the women’s soccer head coach at Arizona Christian University, and was simultaneously the men’s coach for half of that time. He is the winningest coach in the school’s 10-year NAIA history, turning around a program that had only won 14 Golden State Athletic Conference games in its previous six years, to qualifying for the GSAC Tournament for the first time in his third season, and returned in 2018. On the men’s side, the Firestorm were tops in the GSAC in team GPA in 2015, and seven players earned Daktronics Scholar-Athlete recognition.

Prior to his time at ACU, Berrios spent four years as an assistant coach for the University of Tampa women’s soccer team. During his tenure at UT, the NCAA Division II Spartans produced a record of 59-18-12. In 2011, the Spartans won the Sunshine State Conference Tournament Championship and NCAA Regional Championship before bowing out in the NCAA Elite Eight to Armstrong Atlantic.

Tampa won their third straight Sunshine State Conference Tournament Championship in 2012 before losing to the eventual national champion West Florida in the NCAA Sweet 16. In 2013, the Spartans were nationally ranked the entire season while rising to as high as number four in the nation in consecutive weeks. After winning 10 straight matches to open the season, Berrios helped the Spartans to five SSC victories as they advanced to the semifinals of the NCAA South Regional.

Before coaching at Tampa, Berrios served as the Director of Soccer Operations for the University of South Florida women’s team for one year. During his only season with the NCAA Division I Bulls, USF highlighted their season with wins over Georgetown and Marquette in the Big East tournament. South Florida advanced to their first ever NCAA Tournament in 2010 beating Auburn before falling to Florida State in the second round.

In addition to his 12 year collegiate career, he has a 16 year club coaching career having coached at several clubs both in the east and west coast. On the club circuit in Florida, Berrios coached at Brandon FC/West Florida Flames where he was a Head Coach and Staff Coach from 2002–13. He also spent time with Tampa Bay United from 2013-14. In Arizona he spent 2014-16 with the CCV Stars Soccer Club and 2016-18 with RSL-AZ/Utah Royals, formerly Sereno Soccer Club.

He and his wife Suzi have four adult children. All live in the Tampa Bay Area.

Berrios graduated from Southern New Hampshire University with a BA in General Studies.

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Ray Leone

NAU Women’s Soccer announced Ray Leone as the newest assistant coach for the Lumberjacks, joining the team ahead of the 2023 season alongside head coach Alan Berrios and assistant coach Chris Campbell.

Leone will join the Jacks, coming from his most recent position with the IMG Academy girl’s soccer. Leone began his coaching journey in 1986 at Berry College going 49-13-5. In 1989 Leone began coaching at Creighton through 1993, before accepting an assistant coach position at Clemson. Leone was promoted to head coach of the Clemson Tigers in 1999.

In 2001, Leone moved to Arizona to take the head coaching job at Arizona State, working with the Sundevils through 2006. Leone then moved to Harvard, serving as head coach from 2007-2015. In 2016, Leone became the head coach of the University of Maryland.

In Leone’s highly decorated coaching career, he has won six conference titles and two conference Coach of the Year awards, leading three different schools to the NCAA tournament. Leone had 24 winning seasons throughout his coaching career, and ranked in the top-25 among active Division I head coaches in career wins in his final season with Maryland. Leone’s overall record as a head coach is 309-212-64 (.583).

Leone's nine-year tenure at Harvard was highlighted by five appearances in the NCAA Tournament and five Ivy League Championships. Three Crimson players were honored as Ivy League Player of the Year under Leone with four earning Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors.He coached 22 first-team All-Ivy League selections along with 16 second team all-league players. Leone also developed 12 NSCAA All-Region selections,

Academically, Leone's teams have performed well, with two Academic All-Americans and 11 Ivy All-Academic selections during his tenure.

Leone came to Harvard after six successful seasons at Arizona State, where he posted 60 wins The Sun Devils made a pair of appearances in the NCAA Tournament and achieved a school record No. 9 national ranking in 2004. Leone coached nine All-Pac 12 honorees with his squad annually achieving the school's highest grade point average among its 22 varsity programs. The Sun Devils placed a school record 11 student-athletes on the Academic All-Pac 12 team in 2005.

Prior to his time in Tempe, Leone was a coach at Clemson from 1994-to-2000, serving as an assistant for five years before becoming the head coach in 2000 after serving as the co-head coach in 1999. That season saw the Tigers win a school record 19 games en route to an ACC regular season championship. Leone's squad broke North Carolina's 37-game ACC winning streak and started the season with 12 straight wins.

In his seven years at Clemson, the Tigers finished among the nation's top-15 teams each year and produced 20 All-ACC selections. Additionally, the 1994 Clemson squad was the first team in NCAA women's soccer history to make the NCAA tournament in its first varsity season. During Clemson's NCAA tournament runs from 1994-2000, only six other Division I programs advanced to the NCAA tournament the same number of years (7) as the Tigers.

Leone came to Clemson from Creighton, where he started the varsity program in 1989 and within five years guided the Bluejays to a top-five regional ranking. He led Creighton to a 14-3-2 record in his final season.

His coaching career began at Berry College (Ga.) in 1986 and he became the only coach to take a first-year program to a national championship game in college soccer history. The following season, Leone's squad won the NAIA national championship and he earned national coach of the year honors. Berry is considered the most successful program in NAIA history.

As a player, Leone starred from Charlotte and was a three-time all-conference selection at three different positions. He scored the winning goal in what still stands as the longest game in Sun Belt history, a seven-overtime affair in the 49ers' first conference championship title game. As a senior, Leone received the David Schlee Memorial Award given to the Charlotte player most demonstrating his desire to succeed. He earned a BA in sociology at Charlotte before receiving a masters in sports sciences from the United State Sports Academy in 1990.

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Chris Campbell

Chris Campbell joins the NAU Women’s Soccer program as an assistant coach and the director of goalkeeping.

Campbell’s most recently comes from a head coaching position at the Flagstaff Soccer Club, where he coached for a season before joining the Lumberjack family. He also was an instructor for the club, focusing on shooting.

Campbell graduated from Hawai’i Pacific University in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts Psychology. As a Shark, he played during the 2014 and 2015 season, appearing in 30 matches, starting in seven. He totaled over 1060 minutes on the field, scoring five goals ending his career with an on-goal percentage of 0.690.

Prior to playing at HPU, Campbell played two seasons at Chandler-Gilbert Community College from Sept. 2011 to May 2013.

Campbell also played at Flagstaff High School for coach Mike Jenkins, earning Arizona All-State and Regional First Team honors. He was also named Flagstaff Player of the Year and landed in the ESPN Top-40 Players in Arizona list.