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On January 12, Rutgers-Camden athletic director Jeff Dean
named Tom Greenawalt to the position of head women’s soccer coach.
Greenawalt succeeds Brian Sheehan, who resigned last fall after his fifth
year with the Lady Raptors’ program.
For the past two years, Greenawalt has worked in the dual role as head
coach for both the men’s and women’s soccer teams at
Albright College. He also
coached the Lady Lions’ team in 2002 before adding the men’s job the next
season.
“This team here is a solid team,” said Greenawalt, who inherits a program
entering its eighth varsity season. “The program is already established.
New Jersey is like
the soccer capital of the world. Recruiting will be a lot easier here.”
In addition to his professional job as a disciplinarian at a
Philadelphia high school,
Greenawalt had to juggle recruiting and numerous other duties involved in
coaching a pair of collegiate soccer programs at Albright. He took over
the Lady Lions in 2002 and led them to an 8-10-1 record, a major
improvement over the previous year’s 2-7 team that finished with too few
players to complete the season. In 2003, he added duties as Albright’s
men’s coach, and once again led a fine turnaround. The men went 7-11-1
after going 1-14-2 the previous season.
Last fall the Albright women recorded an outstanding
13-6-3 record. “I feel I
left the program in a much better position than when I took it over,” he
said.
Greenawalt takes over a Lady Raptors program which went
12-6-2 last fall and
qualified for its second consecutive berth in the New Jersey Athletic
Conference playoffs.
A former all-state soccer player at
Muhlenberg High School,
Greenawalt is the program’s career leader in goals (68), assists (72) and
points (208).
Greenawalt went on to have a standout four-year career at Marshall
University from 1994-98, earning numerous honors as a senior, including
First Team All-Mid-American Conference, Academic All-MAC and All-Mid East
Region Second Team. He was the MVP of the Virginia Classic Tournament as
his team earned runner-up status, and he led the team with 17 points
(eight goals, one assist). He was a Dean’s List student at Marshall and a
member of the Southern Conference Honor Roll. He capped his career earning
selection to
Marshall’s 25th anniversary all-time men’s soccer team.
Greenawalt graduated from
Marshall
in 1999 with a BA in Criminal Justice and Legal Studies, and started
pursuing his Masters degree at Washington College, where he also served
two seasons as a graduate assistant men’s soccer coach. He spent a year as
the assistant women’s soccer coach at Haverford College in 2001 before
earning the head women’s coaching job at Albright.
“He brings a lot of knowledge and experience to the program,” Dean said.
“We’re excited to have Tom on our coaching staff.” |