Maddy Evans - Women's Soccer Coach - University of Delaware Athletics

Maddy Evans

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
bluehenswosocrecruiting@udel.edu

Assistant Coach Maddy Evans is in her second year as assistant coach for the Delaware women's soccer program.

Evans joins the Blue Hens after a highly successful stint at West Chester University. Evans helped the Golden Rams to a record of 79-19-12 over five seasons, which included an NCAA Tournament Championship Game appearance in 2022 where West Chester won the PSAC regular season and conference tournament championships. Evans and West Chester coaching staff members were also named Atlantic Region Coaching Staff of the Year. While under Evans, West Chester made the NCAA Tournament in all five seasons with her on the sidelines, won the Atlantic Region of the 2017 NCAA Tournament, and were Atlantic Region finalists in 2019.

"We are very excited to add someone of Maddy's caliber and championship DNA to our coaching staff," Lawrence said. "Her experiences at the highest level of college soccer as a coach and as a player are invaluable. Maddy is someone who embraces building relationships, servant leadership, and has a thirst for knowledge. I am personally excited to learn from Maddy as we look to build a championship environment here at UD. We welcome Maddy and her husband Brian to Newark!"

The Delaware women’s soccer program in 2024 earned their first trip to the CAA Tournament since the 2019 season. During the 2024 campaign, the Blue Hens started off conference play 4-0, while also winning five games in a row. It was the best stretch for the program since 2011. During the stretch, the Blue Hens had late game heroics from Maggie Groh and Brooke Vogel, as the two scored game winning goals to defeat Hofstra and Campbell.

In 2024, Kyla Burns became the first Blue Hen in program history to earn the conference goalkeeper of the year. Burns also earned first team All-Conference honors, along with Conny Viehmann, Carly Binn, Caitin St. Leger, Brooke Vogel and Olivia Bley all earned all-conference honors.

The Delaware defense allowed six goals in 10 CAA contests. They had seven shutouts in CAA play and eight throughout the season.

In just her first season at Delaware, the women’s soccer program has made large strides in the 2023 season. Evans played a role in the Blue Hens opening the regular season defeating Syracuse 1-0, leading to the program’s first ever win against a Power Five opponent. The Blue Hens picked up a victory over La Salle on the road for the first time since 1994, and tied the program record for goals in a game in its 9-1 win over Hampton.

The Blue Hens shutout opponents six times in 2023, including a shutout over the CAA Regular Season and Tournament Champions Towson. Their defense allowed the least amount of goals in the conference (13), leading to the second best goals against average in the conference of 0.72. Both those marks rank third all time in program history, and is the defensive season for the Blue Hens since 2009.

As a coach, Evans has provided skill instruction to student-athletes, facilitated team bonding, goal setting, and leadership development trainings, provided feedback in player meetings and film breakdown, prepared comprehensive scouting reports on opponents, utilized Hudl to breakdown film of program and opponent games, and partnered with the strength and conditioning staff to create off-season workout packets and coordinate in-season training planning. Evans has also coordinated accommodation, travel, and equipment needs before competitions, and communicated with sports medicine professionals to monitor player readiness and wellness. She was also a member of West Chester's President's Commission on the Status of Women, the sole athletics department representative, and a member of the advocacy sub-committee. Evans also was part of the Athletics Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, and a member of the Trans Athlete Policy Development sub-committee.

Prior to coaching at West Chester, Evans served as an assistant coach at MIT in 2014 and as a graduate assistant for Concordia University Chicago in 2015 and 2016, a coach for Penn Fusion Soccer Academy and Director of Penn Fusion's Girls Elite Player Program, a Skills Development Professional Coach, and Soccer Without Borders Granada Nicaragua Volunteer Coach.

During her playing days, Evans competed in the National Women's Soccer League as a midfielder from 2013-2017, first with the Boston Breakers from 2013-2015 before playing for the Orlando Pride in 2016 and 2017. She was the ninth overall selection in the NWSL Expansion Draft. Evans also played in the Australian W-League for the Brisbane Roar. As a collegiate athlete, Evans competed at Penn State, where she won four Big Ten Championships, was the team captain for the 2012 squad that finished as runner-ups in the NCAA Tournament, and was selected to the NSCAA Academic Award Team as a Division I Scholar-Athlete. She also competed for W-League Hudson Valley Quickstrike Lady Blues and participated in U.S. Soccer Youth National Team camps. She was a National Champion for FC Bucks US Youth Soccer.

Evans has also served as an adjunct professor at West Chester, teaching Leadership and Life Skills for Student Athletes, and was Leadership Development Coordinator for Student-Athlete Success. She also had coaching stints at Penn Fusion Soccer Academy, Beaver Country Day School, and Newton (Mass.) Girls' Soccer. At Penn State, she was president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Board and a member of the Athletic Directors' Leadership Institute. She has also received Adidas Breaking Barriers, Gender Equity and Inclusion in Organizations certification, was a Leadership Awards Nominee at West Chester, Brisbane Roar FC W League Player's Player, Penn State Student-Athlete Above and Beyond Award winner, Academic All-Big Ten Honoree, Pennsylvania State University Dean's List member, and Union League of Philadelphia Good Citizenship Award winner.

She graduated from Penn State with a degree in English in 2013, from Concordia University Chicago with an MA in Leadership Studies in 2016, and from Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania in 2021 with an MS in Sport Science.