Houston Christian University Women's Soccer

Nick Whiting is in his second season as the head women’s soccer coach at HCU after being named head coach in April of 2024. In his first season leading the program, the Huskies finished with a 5-9-5 overall record and a 3-4-3 mark in Southland Conference play, just missing out on the SLC Tournament. Alexa Huerta and Olivia Rossman earned all-conference honors for the 2024 season with both also earning a spot on the academic all-conference team. Whiting joined the Huskies after two seasons as the associate head coach at Western Carolina, helping lead the Catamounts to both the Southern Conference regular season and tournament championships and a trip to the NCAA Tournament in 2023. That season, WCU won the regular season outright with a 7-2 record, the program's first-ever outright SoCon title, and boasted a top 25 scoring offense and a top 25 scoring defense. Whiting helped guide the Catamounts to a top 70 RPI in 2023, the highest in program history, and also coached the SoCon Player of the Year, Isabella DeMarco. Both seasons he was at WCU, the program ranked in the top 10 in Division I in team GPA. Prior to his stint at WCU, Whiting spent six seasons at Southland Conference member McNeese and served as the program's associate head coach for four of those. In his final season with the Cowgirls, he helped guide McNeese to a 13-5-2 overall record with a 9-2-1 mark in SLC play. During his time in Lake Charles, he coached players to SLC Player of the Year, Forward of the Year and Defender of the Year honors. Before his years at McNeese, Whiting coached one season as an assistant at Louisiana, reaching the Sun Belt Conference Tournament with an 8-10-2 record. Before that, he was the head coach at Lees McRae College in Banner Elk, N.C. for three seasons, leading the Bobcats to a pair of Conference Carolinas regular season titles and a 29-23-4 record. He spent two seasons as an assistant at Lees-McRae before taking over the head job. Whiting also spent a year as an assistant at Catawba College after a season as a graduate assistant at WCU in 2008. He graduated from the University of West Florida in 2007 with a bachelor of arts in communication arts/public relations and later earned an M.S. in health and human performance from McNeese in 2021.

Quentin Boric was named assistant women's soccer coach at HCU in June of 2024. Boric joined the Huskies after four seasons as the assistant coach at the University of the Cumberlands, helping lead the Patriots to their first national championship in 2023. That season, the Patriots won the Mid-South Conference regular season crown with a 5-0-1 record while going undefeated through the entire regular season with a 13-0-3 record. The Patriots suffered their only defeat of the season in the Mid-South Conference tournament before reeling off five consecutive wins en route to the national title. Boric helped guide the Patriots to a No. 1 MRPI ranking in 2023 a year after finishing No. 2.   Leading the defensive unit and goalkeepers, Boric helped guide the team to just one goal allowed in five national tournament matches. During the 2023 tournament, the Patriots defense went 447 consecutive minutes before conceding their first, and only, goal. During the championship match, junior Georgia Martell made 19 saves and senior Laura Vogt made two additional stops during penalty kicks to guide the Patriots to victory.   Prior to capturing the programs first national championship, Boric was instrumental in the programs growth and success. Since his debut on the Cumberlands staff in 2020, Boric helped lead the Patriots to one Mid-South tournament championship, two Mid-South regular season titles and four-straight appearances at the NAIA Final Site. During those years, the Patriots reached the Elite Eight twice and the Final Four once before last years national championship run. Boric also helped the Patriots defensive unit break the program record for shutouts in a season with 15 in 2021.   During his four seasons in Williamsburg, Ky., Boric coached 26 all-conference selections and 10 all-American selections.   Boric was a three-year starter at Bridgewater College, finishing his career with nearly 200 saves, eight shutouts and an .818 save percentage in goal. He currently holds a Master in Health and Human Performance and a USSF C coaching license.