Westminster College Women's Soccer

Coaching Profile    Record: Westminster College overall record 479-307-70. (.599) Presidents Athletic Conference Coach of the Year 2002,05,06,15, 18 and 19                                 Team Recognition:     Presidents Athletic Conference Champions: Women: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 Men: 2002, 2006, 2008, 2015, 2018, 2019   NCAA Championships: Women: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 Men: 2002, 2004, 2008, 2015, 2018. 2019   ECAC Championships: Women: 2006, 2008, 2017, 2018, 2019, Men: 2006, 2007, 2019, 2021   NSCAA (United Soccer Coaches) Team Awards 10 plus Team Academic Awards 9 plus Team Ethic Awards (2012 No cards)   Student Recognition:  8 National All-Americans                                               56 plus Regional All-Americans                                              Over 160 All-Conference Selections                                              50 plus Academic All Region/ All-District Selections                                              350 plus Academic All Conference Selections (3.6 GPA +)                                              6 Presidents Athletic Conference Player of the Year                                    NCAA Post Graduate Scholarship Recipient 

Jerry Hare enters his ninth year as an assistant coach for the Titans in 2025. Hare brings more than 34 years of coaching experience with specialty in goalkeeping to the mens and womens soccer programs.   In 2018, he was part of the Westminster coaching staff that helped guide the mens soccer team to a Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) title and an appearance in the NCAA Tournament. Hare was also a part the womens soccer coaching staff that helped direct the team to a PAC Championship runner-up finish and an appearance to the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Tournament and again in 2021, in which he helped Camille Holzschuh rank first in the PAC in goals-against average (0.55) and broke the program record for career shutouts with 25. The Titans only conceded one goal against conference foes in the regular season. In 2022, Hare helped Morgan Murphy to a successful season, which she started all 20 matches for Westminster, going 14-4-2 while posting a league-low .697 goals-against average. Murphy totaled 90 saves and owned a .874 save percentage, which ranked 24th in Division III. In 10 regular season conference starts she went 9-1 with a 0.44 goals-against average. She led the conference with seven shutouts last fall, including four in league play. She was named as the PAC Newcomer of the Year award and the championship tournament's Most Outstanding Player following Westminster's 2-0 shutout of Franciscan in the title match, in which she made 12 saves against Franciscan after recording seven saves and stopping three shootout attempts during the 1-1 semifinal draw with Chatham. Since 2017 at Westminster, his mens goalkeepers have a combined goals-against average of 1.12 and a combined GAA of 0.86 for the womens goalkeepers.   Hare is the Founder and Director of the Hare Goalkeeper Academy, which provides year-round education and training to young goalkeepers, ages 7-22 in western Pennsylvania and the surrounding areas.   Hare is also the Head Soccer Coach for Shady Side Academy Middle School 7th and 8th Grade Coed Soccer and spent the past 25 years as varsity assistant soccer coach at Shady Side Academy (SSA), primarily working with the boys and girls goalkeepers. He helped lead the Girls Varsity team to the WPIAL Class A Championship victories in 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and finished as a runner-up in the PIAA State Championship game in 2016 and 2019. His girls team won the 2017 PIAA State Class A Championship for the first time in school history. He helped lead the boys to the WPIAL Class A and AA Finals in 2002, 2006, 2008, 2016 and 2020 and won the WPIAL Championship in 2017 and 2018. His boys team finished in third place in 2019 and 2023 WPIAL Class AA consolation game.   In 1990 as a volunteer goalkeeper coach, he helped lead Hampton High School Boys Soccer to the WPIAL and PIAA Class AA Championship victories. During his twenty-five years at SSA, his boys goalkeepers have a combined goals-against average of 0.79 and a combined GAA of 1.12 for the girls goalkeepers.   His personal philosophy is to build a motivating and positive environment for growth and development through dedication, hard work, and teamwork. Hare holds national and regional coaching diplomas from the National Soccer Coaches Association. He is a certified CPR Trainer and Sport Safety Trainer from American Red Cross.