Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges Women's Soccer

David Nolan is entering his fourth season as the head coach of the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women’s soccer program in 2025, after leading CMS to a SCIAC Tournament title and NCAA Tournament berth in 2024. Nolan led the Athenas to a 13-4-3 record during the 2024 season, while knocking off defending national champion Cal Lutheran (2-1) and regular season champion Pomona-Pitzer (1-0) on the road to earn the program's first SCIAC Tournament title since 2016. CMS advanced to its first NCAA Tournament since 2019 by earning the league's automatic bid.  In his debut season in 2022, Nolan led the Athenas to their first SCIAC Tournament berth since 2016, helping CMS advance to the conference championship game with a 2-1 road win over Cal Lutheran in the semifinals. CMS finished the year with a 9-6-6 overall record, and a 5-2-5 record in conference play. In his second season, with only one senior on the roster, he guided the Athenas to a third-place finish in SCIAC with a 6-4-2 league mark in 2023.   Nolan joined the Athenas with intimate familiarity with the SCIAC and the Claremont Colleges community, after spending seven years with the Pomona-Pitzer women’s soccer program, ending his tenure as the associate head coach. He served as the head recruiter for the Sagehens and helped the program reach the NCAA Division III Final Four in his final season in 2019. During Nolan’s tenure, Pomona-Pitzer won three SCIAC titles, made four NCAA appearances, and reached the Elite Eight in 2016 (falling to Chicago in penalty kicks) before its Final Four appearance in 2019. While with the Sagehens, Nolan also had the opportunity to take on an expanded role with the day-to-day operations of the program in the Final Four season of 2019, while head coach Jen Scanlon was also serving as the interim athletic director. He was part of the SCIAC Coaching Staff of the Year in 2016, 2018 and 2019, and helped the Sagehens to three league championships. In addition to his experience at Pomona-Pitzer, Nolan joins CMS with two years of collegiate head coaching experience under his belt, after taking over the helm at William Jessup University in Rocklin, California in May of 2020. Before he came on board, William Jessup had a 3-14 record in 2019, and then struggled to a 2-9-1 mark in his first season in a limited schedule coming out of the COVID pandemic. However, Nolan quickly turned around the program’s fortunes with an 18-player recruiting class that helped the Warriors to a 9-5-3 mark in 2021, including an 11-game unbeaten streak. William Jessup also earned the program’s first-ever tournament playoff berth, where it tied The Master’s University but fell on penalty kicks. While coaching at Pomona-Pitzer, Nolan also had outside coaching experience as the head boys soccer coach at San Juan Hills High School from 2018-2020, as the assistant director of coaching with the San Clemente Surf Soccer Club from 2012-2020, and with the US Soccer Youth Training center as a clinic coach from 2016-18. Originally from Dundalk, Ireland, Nolan came to the United States and played collegiate soccer for two seasons at California Baptist University and two seasons at La Sierra University, where he served as a team captain. He also earned the La Sierra Golden Eagle Award for being the top male athlete, as well as the Sportsmanship Award. Nolan earned his bachelor’s degree in marketing from La Sierra in 2013. He went on to earn a master’s degree in coaching and athletic administration from Concordia University in Irvine in 2018.

Michael O'Connor enters his third season as an assistant coach with the CMS women's soccer program in 2025, working primarily with the team's goalkeepers, while also adding the additional role of serving as the program's recruiting coordinator.  O'Connor has partnered with new CMS head coach David Nolan at his last two stops, most recently at William Jessup University in 2020-21, where he helped his team to an 11-game unbeaten streak and the program's first-ever postseason berth. Prior to joining Nolan at William Jessup, O'Connor served as the goalkeeper coach at Pomona-Pitzer from 2017-19, where Nolan was serving as the associate head coach. During his final season in 2019, the Sagehens reached the national semifinals, the best finish in program history. The team's starting goalkeeper, Isa Berardo, was voted the NCAA DIII Goalkeeper of the year and a first-team All-American, while starting starting forward Bria VarnBuhler was the DIII National Player of the year. Outside of the collegiate ranks, O'Connor has also served as a goalkeeper coach for San Clemente Surf Soccer club, Desert United soccer, Arsenal Soccer Club, and Spartans Soccer Club. O'Connor grew up in Riverside, California and played goalkeeper at La Sierra University, before graduating from the Art Institute of California with a degree in audio engineering. He holds a D National License and Level 2 Goalkeepers United Soccer Coaches License. 

Alvaro Castellon enters his first season as an assistant coach with the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's soccer program in 2026.  Castellon most recently served as an assistant coach at La Verne for the last two seasons, assisting in all areas of the program's operations, including practice sessions, film analysis sessions and recruiting operations. In addition to his duties at La Verne, Castellano also served as both a head coach and an assistant coach with the SoCal Blues ECNA and DPL Program for the last year, running daily operations for a U13 team and assisting with U19 teams.  Prior to joining the SoCal Blues, he also served as a head coach and an assistant coach with Sporting CA for four years from 2021-25, assisting with multiple U17 and U19 teams, while serving as the head coach for the U19 ECRL and ECNL teams in his final year.  Castellon's first coaching experiences cams when he served a head coach for International FC/Sporting CA SGV from 2019-2023, running daily operations for a 2010 girls team and assisting in operations with a 2007 girls team.