Youngstown State University

Youngstown State University Athletic Dept
One University Plaza Youngstown, OH 44555

Division 1 Ohio Midwest

Public Large National competitor

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Dr. Brian Shrum

Brian Shrum, a native of Western Pennsylvania, is now in his sixth season as head coach of the Youngstown State women's soccer program.

Last season, Shrum guided the Penguins to the best season in program history and came one victory away from earning Youngstown State's first Horizon League Tournament Championship and berth to the NCAA Tournament.

Under his tutelage, the Penguins posted a program-best record of 9-8-3 and won a school-record five Horizon League games to finish 5-3-2 in league action. YSU also qualifed for the Horizon League Tournament for the first time since 2014.

Youngstown State closed out the season strong winning seven of its last nine contests and advanced to the Horizon League Tournament Championship for the first time in school history.

Senior Abriana Rondin was named to the All-Horizon League Second-Team while Taylor Berry was named to the All-Freshman Team. Rondin had three goals and two assists while Berry scored four goals and assisted on another.

Goalkeeper Brooklynn Kirkpatrick was stellar in the net picking a single-season record nine wins and setting the single-season mark of eight shutouts. She also recorded 108 saves and had a goals-against average of 1.00.

Elis Klein Spindola led the Penguins with five goals, which were the most scored since 2019, and 11 points while Regan LaVigna tallied three goals with three assists for nine points.

The Penguins also scored 20 goals with 57 points, which are the most since 2014 when YSU had 23 goals and 65 total points.

In 2021, Shrum guided the Penguins to one of their best performances since joining the Horizon League. YSU was in the thick of the postseason chase until the last week of the season. The Guins had 10 points in the league standings for the first time since 2014. YSU also set a school record for draws in a season with five, including four in HL play. Highlighting the season was a 1-0 win over Northern Kentucky and a tie with Horizon League runner-up Oakland.

The Penguins played nine Horizon League games in the spring of 2021 due to the cancellation of the fall season due to COVID-19.

As a team, the Penguins posted a 3.62 semester grade-point average and recorded a 3.71 GPA for the entire 2020-21 academic year.

In his second season at the helm, Shrum improved the Penguins' win total from the previous year and collected his first victory in the Horizon League. Shrum also earned his first all-league selection as freshman Marcella Sizer was named to the All-Horizon League Second-Team as well as the All-Freshman team.

The Penguins finished the 2019 season with four wins and picked up a pair of league victories over Cleveland State and Detroit Mercy, marking the first time since 2015 that the Guins won multiple league games.

The season opening victory over Purdue Fort Wayne was the first win in an opener since 2016 and on October 2, the Penguins defeated Cleveland State 1-0 to snap a 23-game winless streak in the Horizon League. YSU closed out their 2019 home schedule with a 1-0 victory over Detroit Mercy, marking just the second win over the Titans in program history.

With only seven upper classman on the roster, Shrum turned to his 2019 freshman class who accounted for 31 of the team's 36 total points, 11 of the 12 goals and nine of the 12 assists. A trio of forwards in Marcella Sizer, Regan LaVigna and Addie Roman helped lead the way. Sizer finished with 13 points on five goals and three assists, LaVigna accumlated siz points with one goal and four assists and Roman had six points on three goals. LaVigna's four assists tied the freshman record set by Chantel Groom (2001) and Katie Hohman (2012).

In his first year at Youngstown State, Shrum earned his first win on August 24, in a 1-0 win over Canisius from Farmers National Bank Field. During the season, goalkeeper Kate McEachern was named the Horizon League Defense Player of the Week on Oct. 8 for her five save, shutout performance against Oakland.

Shrum, who served as an assistant coach then associate head coach at Duquesne from 2012-17, became the seventh head coach in program history.

Shrum spent the six seasons at Duquesne and helped the Dukes to their first NCAA Tournament appearance, Atlantic-10 Championship and a school record 12 wins in 2015. Over the last three seasons, Shrum helped Duquesne to an overall record of 34-22-7 and an 18-10-2 mark in Atlantic-10 play.

Shrum has developed 13 Atlantic-10 All-Conference players, including two-time all-conference selection and 2017 Atlantic-10 Midfielder of the Year Linnea Faccenda.

Prior to Duqusene, Shrum, who has been coaching in Western Pennsylvania since 1995, served as strength and conditioning coaching intern at California University of Pennsylvania. Simultaneously, he served as an assistant coach at St. Vincent College where he helped improve the Bearcats to a school-record tying 11-win season and a berth in the school's first ECAC South Championship tournament. He was instrumental in the development of St. Vincent's first First-Team All-American Elly Colvin.

Shrum graduated from California University of Pennsylvania in 2009 with a degree in sports management where he also earned a master's in exercise science with a concentration in sports enhancement and injury prevention. Shrum earned a doctorate from Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions with a concentration in Human and Sports Performance in 2020. His focus was speed development in soccer within the principles of contextual application.

He is also an adjunct professor at Duquesne University where he teaches Integrated Sports Enhancement and Injury Prevention within the Athletic Training curriculum.

In addition to holding a USSF “A” license from the US Soccer Federation and National Youth License from the United States Youth Soccer Association, Shrum holds numerous strength and conditioning certifications: Performance Enhancement Specialist from the National Academy of Sports Medicine, Certified Speed and Explosion Specialist from the National Academy of Speed and Explosion and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist from the National Strength and Conditioning Association which is an accredited certification with the NCAA.

Shrum, and his wife, Lori, live in Belle Vernon, Pa.

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Josh Green

Josh Green is in his sixth season with the Youngstown State women's soccer program and his first as Associate Head Coach, and works primarily with the Penguins' goalkeepers.

Last season, Green mentored Brooklynn Kirkpatrick to the best goalkeeping season in program history. Kirkpatrick set the program's single-season records for wins (9), shutouts (8), goals-against average (1.00), and save percentage (.850). Kirkpatrick was also named the Horizon League Defensive Player of the Week three times and earned a spot on the All-Tournament Team.

YSU's trio of goalkeepers performed well during the 2021 season. Kirkpatrick, Mackenzie Simon and Zeeyana Jivraj each posted shutouts during the campaign. YSU allowed one-or-fewer goal in 12 games, including each of the final seven contests. YSU allowed more than one goal in just one Horizon League contest. Kirkpatrick led the team with two shutouts. YSU had an .811 save percentage finishing with 133 saves.

During the 2021 spring season (COVID-19 season, Green helped guide four different goalkeepers that saw action during the season. Combined, the Penguins' net-defenders totaled 65 saves and posted a 1.62 goals-against average and a .813 save percentage. Kate McEachern led the team with 31 saves and a .816 save percentage. Jivraj posted her first career shutout against IUPUI in a 0-0 draw.

During the 2019 season, Green guided the Penguins' goalkeepers to another solid year in net. McEachern and Jivraj each saw time in goal this season with McEachern starting a majority of the contests. Jivraj opened the season in net and helped the Penguins to 2-1 victory over Purdue Fort Wayne. McEachern started 15 matches for the Penguins finishing with 94 saves, a 2.01 goals against average and a .752 save percentage to go along with three shutouts. She finished the regular season as the Horizon League leader with 94 saves and 6.27 saves per game.

McEachern's best performance of the season came against Eastern Michigan when she made 14 saves in a shutout performance. McEachern also picked up shutouts in victories over Cleveland State and Detroit Mercy, moving her into a tie for second all-time for career shutouts (six). Among other women's soccer all-time records, McEachern was ninth all-time with a 166 career saves and tied for seventh with four wins in her two seasons.

In his first season at Youngstown State, Green helped McEachern earn the Horizon League Defensive Player of the Week award on Oct. 8 for her five-save, shutout performance against Oakland. McEachern also led all goalkeepers with 48 saves and 6 saves per game during Horizon League matches.

Green, spent the eight years as a volunteer coach at South Dakota and also made stops at Xavier (2009), Loyola Marymount in California (2008-09), Minnesota State-Mankato (2006-08), Iowa (2004-06), and Pepperdine (1996-2003).

As a graduate assistant at Mankato, Green helped the MSU program become a Division II national power. The Mavericks had a 26-9-3 record, boasting three All-Central Region players and eight All-North Central Conference players.

Green also helped build Pepperdine into a Top 25 team. Pepperdine made three appearances in the NCAA tournament from 1996 to 2003.

He is a 1994 graduate of California Lutheran University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in physical education. He completed his master's degree in sports psychology from Minnesota State, Mankato in 2008.

Green and his wife, Mandy, have a son Jack, and a daughter, Ashleigh.

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Anita Maryskova

Anita Maryskova is in her first season as an assistant coach with the Youngstown State women’ soccer program.

Maryskova brings several years of experience both as a top tier player and a coach.

Prior to arriving to YSU, Maryskova was a soccer coach and scout for the Czech National Team Region North and was also an assistant soccer coach for one of the top academies in the country. Two of her male players signed professional contracts with Fk Jablonec at the age of 17.

In 2021, Maryskova was an assistant coach at NJCAA DI Cochise College which was ranked in top 20 in the country in the spring of 2021 and won the region I title. At Cochise, she helped to develop a two-time All-American player Maria Azarias.

Maryskova has been engaged in the collegiate coaching environment since 2018 when she assisted Northwest Nazarene University as an international players recruiter. In 2019, she established a recruiting firm and had successfully helped numerous soccer players to get recruited by Division I, Division II, and NAIA programs.

As a player, Maryskova was a standout player for the U-19 Czech Women’s Soccer National Team and helped the team to win the first leg qualification group for the EURO Championship.

She was the youngest player to play in the women’s league in Germany at the age of 16. Prior to that she was a starter for the most successful Czech powerhouse team Ac Sparta Prague.

After concluding her youth career in the Czech Republic, she got recruited by Division I California State University, Bakersfield. After redshirting her freshman year, she transferred to Brevard College where she helped the team to break all school records.

Maryskova led the team in goals, assists and points in two out of three seasons. With a year of eligibility left, she transferred to Division II powerhouse Northwest Nazarene University and helped clinch a conference tournament appearance for the first team in the history. She is also in the history books as one of only three players in the GNAC to record a hattrick of assists in one game.

In 2018, Maryskova was selected into the NWSL Draft. While not drafted, she tried out for Portland Thorns. She played for the Boise Cutthroats of the WPSL in 2019 and 2020, and won the Desert Conference with FC Tucson (WPSL)

She is still actively playing for the WPSL Fc Tucson.

Maryskova graduated with the Bachelor’s in Business and Organizational Leadership from Brevard College in December 2016 Cum Laude, and with Masters of Business Administration degree from Northwest Nazarene University in 2018. She was very engaged in campus activities as she was a president of the internationals club at Brevard College and a senior member of SGA.

Maryskova holds the prestigious UEFA B Soccer Coaching license as well as United Soccer Coaches Goalkeeper License, NCCP Nutrition Certificate, The FA Equality and Diversity Certificate, and a Life Coach Certificate.