Georgetown University Women's Field Hockey

Soares began her head coaching career at Virginia Commonwealth University where she spent one season in 2012 after serving as the team's assistant coach for the previous five. She orchestrated the third-best single-season turnaround in the nation that season, leading the Rams to a 13-6 record after they were 5-11 in 2011. The 13 wins were the second-most in school history as VCU earned the program's first-ever berth in the Atlantic 10 Field Hockey Championship. A program-record six players also earned All-Atlantic 10 honors. In the classroom, Soares' Rams posted the highest team GPA of all of VCU's 16 intercollegiate athletic programs with a 3.435. Eighteen of the 20 players on the roster earned a spot on the Athletic Director's Honor Roll (3.0 or higher). VCU earned NFHCA Collegiate National Team Academic Award honors while 14 players were named to the National Academic Squad. Soares stepped down to join her husband at the University of Washington for the 2013-14 academic year where she was the Assistant Director of Sport Operations. A native of Centreville, Virginia, Soares is a 2006 graduate of the College of William & Mary, earning a bachelor of arts degree in kinesiology while being a four-year letter winner on the field hockey team. She appeared in 80 games in her career, the third-most in school history, while making 78 starts, the second-most. She totaled nine goals, 18 assists and 36 points as a midfielder and was a team captain as a senior. Her 18 assists are the seventh-most in school history. Soares earned a master of science degree in sports administration from the University of Louisville in 2007. She and her husband, Sean, currently reside in Centreville with their son, Carrick, and daughter, Scout. widget powered by

Neylon spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. While there, she was responsible for goalkeeper and midfield development, academic progress, recruiting, team travel, budget and film analysis. In her second season, she mentored goalkeeper Lauren Bernard who set career-highs in games, minutes, goals against average, saves percentage, wins and shutouts en route to earning 2014 All-Mid-American Conference First Team honors, the first Lancer keeper to do so. A native of Fredericksburg, Virginia, Neylon graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology from Virginia Commonwealth in 2013 where she was a four-year letter winner for the Rams as a midfielder and back from 2009-12. As a senior, Neylon was part of the third-best turnaround in NCAA Division I under current Georgetown head coach Shannon Soares. The Rams won 13 games that year, the second-most in school history. While at VCU, Neylon appeared in 62 games totaling 14 goals with six goals and two assists, including a career-best four goals and nine points in 2012. Neylon began her coaching career with the High Voltage Field Hockey Club in Fredericksburg which is part of the USA Futures program. widget powered by