Erica Dambach


Erica Dambach, née Erica Walsh, is an American college soccer coach. She is the head coach of Penn State Nittany Lions women's soccer. She led Penn State to the 2015 National Championship. She is a two-time NSCAA Coach of the Year, winning the award in 2012 and 2015.

Coaching career

She was the head coach at Dartmouth from 2000–2002, resigning following the 2002 season in order to pursue educational opportunities. After serving as an assistant coach at Lehigh, she was hired as an assistant coach at Florida State in January 2005. She was hired as head coach at Harvard prior to the 2006 season. In February 2007, she then resigned at Harvard in order to take the Penn State head coaching position. She was named the NSCAA Coach of the Year in 2012 and 2015.
She led Penn State to a national championship in 2015.
She was an assistant coach for the United States women's national soccer team at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Personal life

She married Jason Dambach in January 2016.

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