Suffolk University

Suffolk University Athletics Department
41 Temple Street Boston, MA 02114

Division 3 Massachusetts Northeast

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Ellin McDougall

Ellin McDougall was named the head women's soccer coach in February 2022 and will begin her second season at Suffolk in the fall of 2023.

McDougall became the fourth head coach in the Rams’ history and second female to lead the program. Suffolk marks her first collegiate head coaching role.

In her first season, 2022, McDougall guided the Rams to a 4-9-3 overall mark and 1-6-2 in CCC contets. Hayley Long individually highlighted McDougall's first year iin Beantown as an All-CCC Third-Team honoree. The squad, meanwhile, earned SIlver Team Ethics and Sportsmanship Award from the United Soccer Coaches.

Suffolk's true success in year one of the McDougall era came academically. The team collected United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award, while six student-athletes -- Alicia Bibi, Chelsea Fallon, Kylie Flynn, Grace Owens, Kylie Perron and Klaudia Rushi -- picked up College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District honors.

McDougall heads to Boston after a four-year stint as an assistant coach at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). In Troy, as the lead assistant coach, she held numerous responsibilities including recruiting, practicing planning, game-day coordination, adjustments and implementation, player development, team building and social media.

RPI compiled 18 wins and a dozen ties with McDougall on the coaching staff and made a Liberty League Tournament berth in 2019. She coached a pair of all-region All-Americans and nine All-Liberty League honorees on the pitch. In the classroom, she helped recruit 12 Liberty League All-Academic Team members.

Prior to joining the Engineers, McDougall’s collegiate coaching career began at her alma mater, Mercyhurst in 2016. Over two seasons she was in charge of designing and implementing training sessions for goalkeepers and defenders, as well as the team’s strength & conditioning program.

McDougall’s coaching resume includes various camps and clinics, as well as head coaching experience at the club level. She holds a U.S. Soccer Grassroots 11v11 Coaching License and was named to the EDP League’s “EDP Soccer 30 Promising Young Coaches Under 30” in April of 2020.

As a player at Mercyhurst, she defended the Lakers’ net in 54 career games. She compiled a 23-26-3 record with a 1.954 goals-against average and .729 save percentage.

A native of Granby, Connecticut, McDougall graduated Mercyhurst in 2016 as a double major in Business Competitive Intelligence and Sports Management. She earned a Master’s in Organizational Leadership with a concentration in Sports Leadership, also from Mercyhurst.

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Stephen Hill

Stephen Hill joined Suffolk women's soccer sidelines as the Rams' Goalkeepers Coach in 2019. He begins his fifth term in 2023, second on Ellie McDougall's staff.

The first year of the McDougall era featured a pair of first-year netminders, Sophia Barker and Maddie Brooke, who Hill helped guide to four victories, all of which came via shutout.

After the 2020 season was sidelined due to COVID-19, Suffolk burst back into action in 2021. The Rams ran through their regular-season slate, their first in the CCC, to earn the fifth seed in the conference postseason. The blue-and-gold ended up falling in the quarterfinals at fourth-seed Gordon, however, it did put together the second-most victories (11-6-0) in program history.

Allison Rodrigues was a backbone to Suffolk's success. The sole goalie on the 2021 squad, the senior was responbile for all 11 victories in net, eight of which were shutouts en route to become the first Rams' netminder to collect all-region honors from the United Soccer Coaches, as well as a first-team all-league nod.

Hill helped Suffolk to new heights in 2019. He coached Allison Rodrigues’ gloves to 10 victories (10-6-0), including a program-record eight shutouts, and a third-team All-GNAC selection. With Rodrigues as a backstop, the Rams outscored its foes, 34-21 on the year. The blue-and-gold not only locked up a place in the GNAC Tournament for the first time since 2017 and eighth time overall, but did so as the fourth seed and hosting rights, the highest finish since it won the 2010 regular-season crown.

The 2020 season was out of the ordinary not as the Rams' first in the CCC, but due to the fact that it was cancelled due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Hill, who currently works as the Univeristy Budget Director at Suffolk, holds a resume full of experience developing keepers. He takes a spot on the Rams’ sidelines after working as an Assistant Goalkeeping Coach for the Nova Premiere Soccer Club. He has also worked with the Norton and Sandwich Youth Soccer Programs.

Hill earned his Master’s Degree from Suffolk’s Sawyer Business School in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance in 2002.

The former Suffolk graduate holds a United Soccer Coaches Level 3 Goalkeeping Certification.