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Richard Moodie

Richard Moodie was named head coach of the Purdue soccer team by Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Mike Bobinski on Novembeer 28, 2023, and will be in his first season with the Boilermakers in 2024.


An innovator in data, sports science and technology, Moodie comes to Purdue from South Alabama and will be the third head coach in the program’s 27-year history. He won seven conference titles at South Alabama – three regular-season and four postseason – and coached his athletes to 19 individual Sun Belt postseason awards and 44 all-conference accolades in addition to being named the conference coach of the year twice, in 2019 and 2023.


“We are thrilled to welcome Richard Moodie as our head coach for Purdue Soccer,” Bobinski said. “Since embarking on his coaching career, Richard has strived for and achieved excellence at every opportunity. His impressive record of success, especially during his time at South Alabama, has been characterized by a consistent ability to play an exciting and strategic brand of soccer. South Alabama regularly ranked among the nation’s elite in goal scoring, including finishing second across all of Division I for the 2021 season. We look forward to Richard’s leadership of our soccer program and welcome him, his wife, Jess, and children, Caragyn and Trystan, to West Lafayette.”


A native of Stenhousemuir, Scotland, Moodie coached his alma mater, Carson-Newman, from 2011-16, leading the men’s team from 2011-16 and the women from 2012-16 before taking the reigns at South Alabama in 2017. He boasts a 198-118-35 (.614) career record, a 139-74-26 (.636) mark leading the C-N and USA women’s programs and a 91-36-19 record at the Division I level in seven seasons at USA.


Moodie’s coaching tenure at Carson-Newman included multiple NCAA Division II tournament appearances with both programs and a national runner-up finish in 2013. He coached several conference player of the year and All-America honorees and was recognized with Region Coaching Staff of the Year honors. Moodie, who has coached 12 players that went on to have professional playing careers, played professionally himself, including in the MLS with the Columbus Crew, before he began his coaching career.


“Thank you to Mike Bobinski, Senior Associate Athletics Director Ed Howat and the entire search committee for giving me this opportunity at Purdue,” Moodie said. “I am very excited to start this new adventure with the Boilermakers. I enjoyed my time at South Alabama and am thankful for all of the players who I had the honor of coaching and Athletics Director Joel Erdmann for helping us have so much success. I’m now ready to get Purdue Soccer back on the map and give it an identity that it deserves, and can’t wait to get started.”


Moodie brings a data-driven and goal-oriented approach to his teams, with analytics, technology and innovation playing a part in training and student-athlete development. His teams were one of the first to wear GPS trackers and utilize that information during training and games. Moodie’s programs also are on the forefront of sleep science and its impact on on-field performance.


Moodie’s seven-year tenure at South Alabama began with a sweep of the Sun Belt Conference regular-season and tournament titles and an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2017. Another championship sweep, and an NCAA berth, followed in 2019. That began a stretch of three consecutive Sun Belt Tournament crowns and NCAA bids, as Moodie guided the Jaguars to two more tournament titles and NCAA appearances in 2020 and 2021. The 2023 season saw Moodie and South Alabama win another regular-season Sun Belt championship.


In 2023, South Alabama posted a 16-1-3 record with an 8-0-2 mark in Sun Belt play to win the conference. Moodie was named the Sun Belt Coach of the Year, while the Jaguars also earned the league’s Player of the Year, Offensive Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year awards. A 15-0-3 mark in the regular season was the first unbeaten year in program history, as USA outscored its opponents 50-7.


The 2022 season saw USA once again collect Sun Belt Player, Offensive Player, Newcomer and Freshman of the Year accolades. Moodie guided his squad to an 11-2-7 record overall and a 6-1-3 mark in conference play to finish second in the league. The Jaguars also were recognized with one Academic All-America recognition.


For the third consecutive season, 2021 ended in the NCAA Tournament after a Sun Belt tournament title. With the nation’s second-highest-scoring offense, the Jaguars posted a 12-5-3 record, 6-2-2 in the league under Moodie’s leadership. Individual honors included the Sun Belt Player of the Year, Offensive Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year, along with an All-Region selection and an Academic All-America honor.


USA won its second of three straight Sun Belt postseason crowns in the 2020-21 season. Moodie helped his team to a 14-9-1 overall mark, going 8-2-0 in conference play thanks to the No. 2-ranked offense in the country. The NCAA Tournament began with a win over Colorado, the program’s second-ever NCAA victory, to advance to the second round.


The three-year NCAA Tournament streak began in 2019, which also was South Alabama’s second Sun Belt championship sweep in three seasons under Moodie. He was named the Sun Belt Coach of the Year and USA swept the postseason awards, winning the Player, Offensive Player, Defensive Player, Newcomer and Freshman of the Year accolades. A First Team All-Region honor punctuated the campaign as the Jaguars were 16-4-2, 8-1-1 in conference play.


A Sun Belt Freshman of the Year honor highlighted the 2018 season, which was Moodie’s second at South Alabama. The team posted an overall record of 8-9-2 and a 5-4-1 mark in league action. Three players were named to the All-Sun Belt Team.


Moodie’s first year at South Alabama was a memorable one, as he guided the team to two Sun Belt titles, the NCAA Tournament and several major postseason awards. USA collected Sun Belt Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year accolades, along with a pair of All-Region honors and an Academic All-America award. The Jaguars were 14-6-1, finishing the year with a 14-1-1 mark, with a 9-1-0 record in league play. The postseason saw South Alabama outscore its opponents 11-0 in the Sun Belt Tournament.


Moodie came to South Alabama from Carson-Newman, where he was the head coach of the Division II men’s team from 2011-16, going 59-44-9, and the women’s program from 2012-16, with a 48-38-7 record.


The Carson-Newman women went 17-4-1 in 2016 and registered a first-round win in the NCAA Tournament. The squad won the regular-season and postseason conference crowns and a school-record 10 players earned all-league accolades. Conference and Region Player of the Year honors came along with All-America distinction by the national leader in points per game. Moodie and his staff were named the Region Staff of the Year.


A year earlier, in 2015, the C-N women were 19-3-0 and went on to win the program’s first SAC Tournament title and NCAA Tournament win since 2009. Moodie was the Conference Coach of the Year and the team also earned Player of the Year, Freshman of the Year and All-America accolades. The team advanced to the Sweet 16 after a 16-win improvement over the previous season.


While also leading the men’s program, Moodie guided his club to four consecutive seasons with a third-place finish or better in the league, with a conference title in 2015. He led the team to the NCAA title game in 2013 and was named the CaptainU National Coach of the Year. Moodie’s time with the men’s team also included a SAC Coach of the Year honor in 2015, a Player of the Year honor and several All-Region and All-America accolades.


Prior his stint at Carson-Newman, Moodie was the head coach for the boys and girls teams at Morristown East High School in Tennessee from 2008-11. He was an assistant at C-N from 2006-07.


A four-year letterwinner at Carson-Newman from 2002-05, Moodie is among the program’s all-time leaders with 73 games played and 59 career starts. His teams totaled a 49-10-6 record in his last three seasons, with a 19-1-1 mark in SAC play. Moodie helped his team to three consecutive regular-season titles and three NCAA Tournament berths in as many years. The Eagles also won the 2005 tournament crown. The 2003 campaign ended in the national quarterfinals, the furthest the team had ever gotten at the time. The school’s first unbeaten conference season came in 2004, along with another conference title. In 2005, C-N made the national quarterfinals once again after a 7-0 SAC record and an 18-2-2 overall mark. Moodie was recognized on the All-Conference team and earned First Team All-Region honors.


Professionally, Moodie played with the Columbus Crew and Cincinnati Kings in 2007.


Moodie has an NSCAA Premier license, as well as an NSCAA Advanced National Goalkeeping diploma. He also holds a UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) A license.


Moodie graduated from Carson-Newman in 2006 with a degree in business management. He earned his masters degree from the school of education in 2008.


Moodie and his wife, Jess, have two children, Caragyn and Trystan.

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Rob Ward

Rob Ward is in his first season with the Purdue soccer program as the associate head coach on head coach Richard Moodie's staff in 2024


Ward joins Purdue after having already spent eight seasons on Moodie’s staffs, including the last seven at South Alabama.


“I’ve worked with Rob during my tenure as a collegiate coach and he is arguably one of the best recruiters in the game,” Moodie said. “Defensively, he has coached our teams to have one of the best goals-against averages in the country in the last five years, and I am looking forward to seeing what he can accomplish here at Purdue.”


From York, England, Ward helped South Alabama win seven conference championships, three regular-season and four postseason from 2017-23. He and Moodie coached their athletes to 19 individual Sun Belt postseason awards and 44 all-conference accolades. They guided the Jaguars to a 91-36-19 (.688) record during their seven-year tenure.


“I am feeling extremely grateful and excited for this opportunity at Purdue,” Ward said. “A massive thank you to Richard Moodie for giving me the honor of coaching alongside him in the Big Ten. Big thank you also to Mark Foster and Andy Poklad for helping me to grow and develop both on and off the field. I am looking forward to a productive recruiting period in the new year in preparation for a great first season in 2024. Boiler Up!”


As associate head coach with the Boilermakers, Ward will focus on recruiting, tactical planning and player development. He also will look to build on success achieved at South Alabama both defensively and with offensive creativity in the final third.


Ward and Moodie began their time at South Alabama with a sweep of the Sun Belt Conference regular-season and tournament titles and an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2017. The team won another two conference titles, and earned an NCAA berth, in 2019. That was the first of three consecutive Sun Belt Tournament crowns and NCAA bids for the Jaguars, from 2019-21. The 2023 season saw Ward, Moodie and South Alabama win another regular-season Sun Belt championship.


In 2023, South Alabama posted a 16-1-3 record and won the Sun Belt. The Jaguars earned the league’s Player of the Year, Offensive Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Newcomer of the Year and Coach of the Year awards. A 15-0-3 regular season was the first unbeaten season in program history, as USA outscored its opponents 50-7.


With an 11-2-7 record, the 2022 season saw USA once again collect Sun Belt Player, Offensive Player, Newcomer and Freshman of the Year accolades. The Jaguars also were recognized with one Academic All-America recognition.


For the third consecutive season, 2021 ended in the NCAA Tournament after a Sun Belt tournament title. With the nation’s second-highest-scoring offense, the Jaguars posted a 12-5-3 record. Individual honors included the Sun Belt Player, Offensive Player and Newcomer of the Year, along with an All-Region selection and an Academic All-America honor.


USA won its second of three straight Sun Belt postseason crowns in the 2020-21 season thanks to the No. 2-ranked offense in the country. The NCAA Tournament began with the program’s second-ever NCAA victory.


The three-year NCAA Tournament streak began in 2019, which also was South Alabama’s second Sun Belt championship sweep in three seasons under Ward and Moodie. USA swept the postseason awards, winning the Player, Offensive Player, Defensive Player, Newcomer, Freshman and Coach of the Year accolades. A First Team All-Region honor punctuated the campaign.


A Sun Belt Freshman of the Year honor highlighted the 2018 season, and three players were named to the All-Sun Belt Team.


Ward and Moodie’s first year at South Alabama was a memorable one, as they guided the team to two Sun Belt titles, the NCAA Tournament and several major postseason awards. USA collected Sun Belt Player and Defensive Player of the Year accolades, along with a pair of All-Region honors and an Academic All-America award. The Jaguars were 14-6-1 and finished the year with a 14-1-1 mark. The Sun Belt Tournament saw South Alabama outscore its opponents 11-0.


Prior to South Alabama, Ward coached with Moodie for one season at Carson-Newman in 2016-17. With Moodie as the head coach of both the women’s and men’s programs, Ward assisted in recruiting, video analysis, scouting reports and the GPS tracking system.


The Carson-Newman women’s squad won the South Atlantic Conference regular-season and tournament titles and made the NCAA Tournament in 2016. Ward and Moodie earned NSCAA Southeast Region Coaching Staff of the Year accolades.


Ward coached a pair of players, Lauren Wade and Jackie Burns, who are both current members of the Northern Ireland senior national team.


As a player, Ward was a defender at Trevecca Nazarene University and played in 49 games. He scored 10 career goals, including five as a senior, with seven assists in a three-year career.


Ward has an NSCAA national diploma and USSF D, NSCAA goalkeeper level 2 and English FA level 1 licenses.


A 2015 graduate from Trevecca Nazarene with a degree in sport management, Ward earned masters degrees in business administration from Carson-Newman and in health education from South Alabama.


Ward is joined in West Lafayette by his wife, Cori.

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Adrian Ferreira Cabado

Adrian Ferreira Cabado is in his first season with the Purdue soccer program as an assistant coach on head coach Richard Moodie's staff in 2024.


Ferreira Cabado, who will work with the goalkeepers, comes to the Boilermakers from South Alabama, where he worked for Moodie in 2023.


“Adrian was new to our staff a year ago, but within that short span he had an immediate impact on our goalkeepers and their goals-against and clean sheet average,” Moodie said. “He is a forward-thinking coach who helped shape our goalkeepers’ ranks among the best in Division I. He will work mainly with the goalkeepers and oversee our set piece analysis.”


A native of A Coruna, Spain, Ferreira Cabado spent the 2023 season with Moodie and Ward at South Alabama, where he helped the Jaguars to an unbeaten regular season and a Sun Belt Conference championship. He came to USA after three years as a graduate assistant coach at his alma mater, William Carey, a tenure that featured two national runner-up finishes, two United Soccer Coaches Regional Coaching Staff of the Year honors and numerous accolades for his goalkeepers.


“I am very excited to join the Purdue soccer staff,” Ferreira Cabado said. “I am looking forward to working with the student-athletes here, especially the goalkeepers, and building a winning culture with the Boilermakers. I can’t wait to get started and to see everything that we get to achieve here with this fantastic program.


“I want to thank Coach Moodie and Rob for all the trust they have given me from the beginning. It has been a pleasure to work with, and learn from, them. I also want to thank coaches Danny Owens and Ryan Weir from William Carey University. I would not be here without their mentoring and the confidence they gave me during my years at WCU.”


At South Alabama in 2023, Ferreira Cabado worked with Moodie and Ward to continue a winning tradition that totaled seven conference championships, three regular-season and four postseason, from 2017-20. Moodie’s seven seasons included 19 individual Sun Belt postseason player awards and 44 all-conference accolades.


In 2023, South Alabama went 16-1-3 with an 8-0-2 mark in Sun Belt play to win the conference. The Jaguars earned the league’s Player of the Year, Offensive Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year awards while Moodie was named the Coach of the Year. A 15-0-3 mark in the regular season was the first unbeaten year in program history. Goalkeeper Jaidy Gutierrez posted 11 shutouts with a 0.45 goals-against average and nine goals allowed on her way to all-conference team honors.


Ferreira Cabado was a graduate assistant coach at William Carey from 2020-22. With a different goalkeeper each season, he helped his team to a 57-4-4 record, with NAIA national runner-up finishes in 2020 and 2021, conference championships all three years and United Soccer Coaches Regional Coaching Staff of the Year honors in 2021 and 2022. WCU goalkeepers earned All-America accolades and conference goalkeeper of the year awards in 2020 and 2021 and were recognized on the all-conference team and as NAIA Scholar Athletes all three seasons.


William Carey posted a 16-3-2 mark in 2022 with a perfect 8-0 record in conference play to claim the regular-season and tournament crowns. The Crusaders advanced to the NAIA National Championship Final Site as Ferreira Cabado coached goalkeeper Marlen Kelm to SSAC All-Conference and All-Tournament honors. The coaching staff was named the United Soccer Coaches Regional Coaching Staff of the Year and WCU also earned the SSAC Coach of the Year award.


The 2021 campaign saw William Carey go 22-1-0 and 7-0 in SSAC action. The Crusaders were the national runners-up after winning both the conference regular-season and postseason championships. Under Ferreira Cabado coaching, newcomer Jaina Eckert was recognized on the All-America Third Team along with earning SSAC Goalkeeper of the Year and Newcomer of the Year distinctions and being named to the all-conference team. The staff was honored as the Regional Coaching Staff of the Year and the conference’s Coach of the Year. Eckert had a 0.64 goals-against average with 13 shutouts


In 2020, Ferreira Cabado’s first season on staff, William Carey went 19-1-1 and 6-0 in the league to win the regular-season title before the SSAC tournament was not completed. The Crusaders advanced to the national championship game as goalkeeper Sabrina Lang was named an honorable mention All-America. She also was recognized as the SSAC Goalkeeper of the Year and named to the all-conference team. Lang allowed a school-record-low 12 goals on the season with a 0.74 goals-against average.


Additionally, Ferreira Cabado served as a volunteer goalkeepers coach at Jones College for the men’s and women’s programs from 2021-23. He helped the Bobcats to two MACCC conference championships, in 2021 and 2022, and the staff was named the regional coaching staff of the year in 2021 and 2022 and the MACCC Coaching Staff of the Year in 2022.


As a partner and camp director of La Liga Futbol Camps since 2016, Ferreira Cabado oversees 50 camps in five states. He organizes camp logistics, marketing and recruiting coaching staffs.


On the pitch, Ferreira Cabado was a goalkeeper for William Carey from 2016-19. He played four career games and totaled 119 minutes with five saves and one goal allowed for a .833 save percentage and a 0.76 goals-against average.


Ferreira Cabado graduated from William Carey in 2019 with a bachelor of science in business administration. He also earned a masters of business administration in 2020 and a specialist of education in interscholastic athletic administration in 2021, also from William Carey.


Ferreira Cabado is joined by his wife, Emily, in West Lafayette.

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Carson Hamner

Carson Hamner is in his first season with the Purdue soccer program as an assistant coach on head coach Richard Moodie's staff in 2024.


Hamner will focus on individual player development and data analysis with Purdue. He comes to West Lafayette from his alma mater, South Alabama, where he was on Moodie’s staff for two seasons in a variety of roles.


“Carson served as a graduate assistant with our staff at South Alabama and we are excited to now have him in a full-time role,” Moodie said. “He has been instrumental with our player development pathway, which we strive to continue here at Purdue. Carson will oversee our individual development program and data analytics.”


Hamner, a native of Mobile, Alabama, worked with Moodie, Ward and Ferreira Cabado at South Alabama, first as a student assistant in 2022 and then as a graduate assistant in 2023. In his two seasons, he helped the Jaguars win a Sun Belt Conference championship and eight total conference player of the year honors.


“I am extremely happy to be a part of the soccer program and athletics department at Purdue University,” Hamner said. “It is such an amazing opportunity to work with these outstanding athletes and help with their individual development. A big thank you to Coach Moodie for giving me the chance to be a part of the staff. Boiler Up!”


In seven seasons at South Alabama, Moodie and his staff maintained a winning culture, with seven conference championships, three regular-season and four postseason, from 2017-20. Ward was an assistant coach all seven years, Hamner joined in 2022 and Ferreira Cabado was added in 2023. Moodie and his staff coached 19 players to individual Sun Belt postseason awards and 44 all-conference honors.


As a graduate assistant in 2023, Hamner analyzed data and player loads, conducted individual training sessions with players and oversaw the video and gps tracking systems. South Alabama earned a 16-1-3 overall record and won the Sun Belt with an 8-0-2 mark. The Jaguars collected the league’s Player of the Year, Offensive Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Newcomer of the Year and Coach of the Year awards. The team went 15-0-3 in the regular season, the first unbeaten campaign in program history, as USA outscored its opponents 50-7.


Hamner was a student assistant in 2022, where a main responsibility of his was data analytics. USA posted an 11-2-7 record overall, going 6-1-3 in league play. The team once again earned Sun Belt Player, Offensive Player, Newcomer and Freshman of the Year honors, and the postseason awards also included one Academic All-America recognition.


Hamner graduated from South Alabama in 2023 with a bachelor of science degree in exercise science.

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