Autumn joins the Lions with years of playing and coaching experience. She has spent the last four seasons as a head coach at FRAM Soccer club, where she managed three teams at the youth level. She also served as the Head JV Soccer coach at Wilson High School and Notre Dame Belmont High School.
Fox played collegiately at San Francisco State University from 2012-2016, where she captained the team in her final two seasons. She was named to the CCAA Honorable Mention team in 2016. Fox played for the Gators and played in the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) for Tottenham Hotspur East Bay and FRAM Ajax. After graduating from San Francisco State University, Fox attained her M.S. in Sport and Exercise Psychology at California State University, Long Beach. In addition to her coaching experience on the field, she has also worked as a mental performance coach for NCAA, high school, and club level athletes.
She currently holds her USSF “D” National License.
After guiding a young Golden Eagles squad to a successful return to competition in 2021, Erik Garcia returns for his fourth season as the head coach of Cal State LA’s women’s soccer program. After the 2020 season was canceled by COVID, Garcia led the Golden Eagles to a strong finish in 2021 and an eighth straight appearance in the California Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament.
The Golden Eagles were 6-3-1 down the stretch, including a clutch double-overtime win over Cal Poly Pomona in the regular-season finale that got them into the conference tournament. Cal State LA then advanced past San Francisco State on penalty kicks in the opening round of the tournament in San Francisco, earning the Golden Eagles a spot in the semifinals for the first time since 2017.
Garcia adeptly guided a huge roster consisting mainly of newcomers into one of the conference’s top teams by the season’s end.
Prior to the cancelation of the 2020 season, Garcia led the Golden Eagles to a historic season in 2019. He guided the Golden Eagles into the NCAA playoffs for the first time since 2014 and made the most of the opportunity. The Golden Eagles upset host Sonoma State in a first-round game and posted the program’s first NCAA playoff win since 2011.
The victory was also the first road playoff win in Cal State LA women’s soccer history.
Cal State LA had the best strength of schedule in the NCAA West Region and a tough non-conference schedule was highlighted by a 1-0 overtime win national runner-up Western Washington.
Garcia led the Golden Eagles to a 9-8-1 overall record, including a 5-5-1 mark in conference play. Cal State LA started the season with a 5-1 record through six games and climbed all the way up to No. 10 in the nation before a tough stretch that saw them go 0-4-1 over the next five games.
Garcia got the Golden Eagles to regroup and back-to-back shutout wins on the last week of the regular season lifted Cal State LA into the conference tournament for a seventh straight season and, ultimately into the NCAA playoffs.
Before becoming the head coach, Garcia was the program’s top assistant coach for the six seasons and was instrumental in keeping the Golden Eagles among the top programs in the West Region.
Garcia was instrumental in helping the Golden Eagles to great success. In his six seasons as the top assistant coach, he helped the Golden Eagles to a 59-35-19 record and six appearances in the CCAA Tournament.
In 2018, Cal State LA had a 10-6-2 overall record and posted its most wins since the Golden Eagles went 16-2-3 while winning the CCAA championship and earning the No. 1 ranking in the West Region in 2014.
In 2017, he helped lead the Golden Eagles to a 9-5-3 overall record and into the CCAA Tournament semifinals.
In 2016, he helped guide the Golden Eagles to the championship game of the CCAA Tournament for the second time in three years. Cal State LA reached the title game as a No. 6 seed in the tourney after advancing past Cal State San Bernardino and Sonoma State in the first two rounds.
In 2015, Cal State LA overcame a 0-5-2 start and ultimately reached the CCAA Championship Tournament. The Golden Eagles wound up with a 7-7-4 overall record and finished third in the CCAA.
Garcia helped the Golden Eagles to one of the best seasons in the program’s history in 2014. Cal State LA went undefeated in conference regular-season matches (9-0-2) and then recorded wins over Sonoma State and Chico State to win the conference tournament title as well. Cal State LA finished the regular season ranked No. 5 in the nation. It was the second conference title in the program’s history and the first time the Golden Eagles went through a conference season undefeated.
The Golden Eagles were 16-2-3 overall and earned the No. 2 seed in the NCAA West Region and hosted the first two rounds of the NCAA playoffs. The Golden Eagles set new program marks for most shutouts (13), fewest goals allowed (10), consecutive wins (8) and longest unbeaten streak (14). In addition, the No. 5 national ranking was the best in the program’s history.
Garcia joined the program in 2013 and helped the Golden Eagles achieve a 10-6-3 record with an 8-5-3 mark in conference play. Cal State LA closed the regular season with an 8-2-2 record over its final 12 games and earned a spot in the four-team conference tournament. The Golden Eagles were ranked fifth in the final NCAA Division II West Region poll, but missed out on the six-team regional after two teams ranked outside of the top six earned automatic qualifying bids.
Garcia came to Cal State LA after serving as Cal Poly Pomona’s interim men’s soccer head coach in 2012.
Prior to that, he was the associate head coach of both the men’s and women’s programs at Kansas Wesleyan in 2011. He helped Kansas Wesleyan’s men’s team to a national ranking as high as No. 8 and a school record for wins in a season with 17, while the women’s team also won a conference title.
Prior to his one year in Kansas, Garcia was an assistant coach for four seasons at two schools for longtime coach Lance Thompson.
Garcia was at Cal Poly Pomona with Thompson for the 2009 and 2010 seasons and the Broncos enjoyed great success, winning 20 games over the two years.
He was also with Thompson for two outstanding years at Notre Dame de Namur and helped the Argonauts to a 24-12-4 record. He was the associate head coach in 2008 when the Argonauts won a Pacific-West Conference title. Notre Dame de Namur was 14-3-3 that season and qualified for the NCAA Division II playoffs for the first time. The Argonauts recorded 12 shutouts and had a goals against average of 0.62.
Garcia began his coaching career in 2006 as an assistant coach for the men’s and women’s programs at Holy Names. Both teams won Cal-Pac Conference championships. The men made their third consecutive regional playoff appearance, while the women made their first-ever trip to the postseason.
Garcia led L.A. Villa FC of the Women’s Premier Soccer League to a 6-3-2 record and a third-place finish in the Coastal Standings in 2016 in his first year with the club, coaching a team that included former Cal State LA players Liz Franco and Stacey Rodwell. It was the first winning record for the franchise in three years.
Garcia also served as an assistant coach for the LA Misioneros FC, a Player Development League team based in Los Angeles and was the head coach for the Misioneros’ reserves in 2013. In 2014, Garcia was named the Misioneros’ associate head coach, and, during the season, became the head coach. He guided the team to a 7-2-5 overall record and into the playoffs for the first time in the team’s history.
He also served as an assistant coach for the Orange County Blues USL-Pro team in 2014.
Garcia played for two seasons at Holy Names and helped lead the team to its first-ever NAIA postseason berth as a junior. The team was ranked fifth in the nation and captured conference and regional championships. The Hawks advanced to the regional playoffs in both his junior and seniors seasons.
He also played at Los Angeles City College, where the team made its first-ever playoff appearance.
Garcia earned his bachelor’s degree in sociology from Holy Names in 2006.
Garcia was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Honduras. He has a son, Derik Ki, a daughter, Nadia and his family’s newest addition, son Iker.
Nat Gonzalez became the second head coach of the UC Riverside women's soccer program prior to the 2012 season.
Throughout his tenure in the Inland Empire, Gonzalez has overseen six First Team All-Big West selections and eight NSCAA All-Region selections. He has also taken the Highlanders to three Big West Tournament Semifinals. In total, Gonzalez has coached eight All-Region selections, 30 All-Big West selections and four All-Freshman Team selections.
Just a few weeks into his ninth year at the helm in 2021, Gonzalez was appointed head coach of the Puerto Rican Women's National Team, leading the squad at the CONCACAF W Qualifiers with current Highlanders Daphane and Jazmine Mendez on the roster.
UCR made its most recent Big West postseason appearance in 2017, finishing tied for second in the Big West and earning the three seed in the conference tournament.
In 2015, the Highlanders recorded the second most victories in the history of the program (11) and advanced to the conference tournament for the second time in three years.
Three members of the 2015 squad were named to the All-West Region Team: Cunningham, Blanca Barrio and Marani, with Marani earned the program's first-ever First-Team, All-Region nod. The trio also each earned First-Team All-Big West accolades, giving the Highlanders the most First Team honorees in program history.
Gonzalez's 2014 squad recorded the program's first winning season since the 2006 campaign, finishing 8-7-3. Tyler Cunningham broke the single-season assist mark (10), and she and Amber Marani became the first Highlanders to be named to the NSCAA Division I Women All-West Region Team since 2004, as the pair earned Second Team honors.
Gonzalez was named the 2013 Big West Coach of the Year as UC Riverside exceeded expectations, finishing third in the Big West during the regular season and upending UC Irvine in the conference semifinals.Gonzalez led UCR to within a goal of the 2013 NCAA Tournament, falling in penalties to Cal State Fullerton in the Big West Championship.
Gonzalez began his second stint with UCR in 2011 as the goalkeeper coach for the men's program. The 2011 squad won a program-record nine matches, including three against nationally-ranked opponents. The Highlanders advanced to their first Big West Tournament before bowing to nationally-ranked UC Irvine in the semifinals.
In 2010, Gonzalez was an assistant coach for the women's team at UCLA. He has also spent time as an assistant coach with the US Women's National Team, U-18 and U-20 squads while serving as the director of goal keeping for Legends FC and the technical director at the Temecula Valley Soccer Academy.
Gonzalez took a rather circuitous route to his current position. Just over a decade earlier, he was named the first Division I head coach of the Highlanders' men's soccer team, leading that squad for the first three years of its existence.
UC Riverside's program improved each season under his leadership, winning a school-record seven matches in the 2003 season. He left the program prior to the 2004 campaign to become the associate head coach at USC for the women's team where he helped recruit the top-ranked recruiting class in the nation in 2005. His 2006 squad ranked first in the Pac-10 and 15th nationally in goals allowed.
Gonzalez became the associate head coach for the women's program at San Diego State in 2007. The Aztecs won the 2009 MWC Tournament Championship and made the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 11 years before advancing to the second round.
Prior to joining the Highlanders in 2000, Gonzalez had assistant coaching stops at Cal Poly Pomona and the University of Washington. During his time in Seattle, Gonzalez helped the Huskies to consecutive Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) titles in 1998 and 1999. The team posted a 61-15-5 record over his five years.
Gonzalez, who was a four-year letter winner at UCLA from 1988-91, won a national championship with the Bruins in 1990, and graduated with a degree in psychology. He served as the women's team's goalkeeping coach from 1994-95.
After finishing his college eligibility, he played professionally for six seasons, finishing his career in 1997 with the Seattle SeaDogs of the Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL).
Gonzalez received his master's degree in exercise science in 2011 from California University of Pennsylvania.
David Nolan is entering his first season as the head coach of the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women’s soccer program in 2022.
Nolan joins the Athenas with intimate familiarity with the SCIAC and the Claremont Colleges community, after spending seven years with the Pomona-Pitzer women’s soccer program, ending his tenure as the associate head coach. He served as the head recruiter for the Sagehens and helped the program reach the NCAA Division III Final Four in his final season in 2019.
During Nolan’s tenure, Pomona-Pitzer won three SCIAC titles, made four NCAA appearances, and reached the Elite Eight in 2016 (falling to Chicago in penalty kicks) before its Final Four appearance in 2019.
While with the Sagehens, Nolan also had the opportunity to take on an expanded role with the day-to-day operations of the program in the Final Four season of 2019, while head coach Jen Scanlon was also serving as the interim athletic director. He was part of the SCIAC Coaching Staff of the Year in 2016, 2018 and 2019, and helped the Sagehens to three league championships.
In addition to his experience at Pomona-Pitzer, Nolan joins CMS with two years of collegiate head coaching experience under his belt, after taking over the helm at William Jessup University in Rocklin, California in May of 2020. Before he came on board, William Jessup had a 3-14 record in 2019, and then struggled to a 2-9-1 mark in his first season in a limited schedule coming out of the COVID pandemic.
However, Nolan quickly turned around the program’s fortunes with an 18-player recruiting class that helped the Warriors to a 9-5-3 mark in 2021, including an 11-game unbeaten streak. William Jessup also earned the program’s first-ever tournament playoff berth, where it tied The Master’s University but fell on penalty kicks.
While coaching at Pomona-Pitzer, Nolan also had outside coaching experience as the head boys soccer coach at San Juan Hills High School from 2018-2020, as the assistant director of coaching with the San Clemente Surf Soccer Club from 2012-2020, and with the US Soccer Youth Training center as a clinic coach from 2016-18.
Originally from Dundalk, Ireland, Nolan came to the United States and played collegiate soccer for two seasons at California Baptist University and two seasons at La Sierra University, where he served as a team captain. He also earned the La Sierra Golden Eagle Award for being the top male athlete, as well as the Sportsmanship Award.
Nolan earned his bachelor’s degree in marketing from La Sierra in 2013. He went on to earn a master’s degree in coaching and athletic administration from Concordia University in Irvine in 2018.
CSUSB Athletics introduced Mark Peters as the next head coach of the women's soccer program in the summer of 2021.
Peters is an alum and has been involved with Yotes' soccer since 2009. A Fontana native, Peters played three years of soccer at nearby Azusa Pacific (2005-07), then transferred to CSUSB and played for the Coyotes in 2009 for his senior campaign.
He spent three seasons as an assistant with men's program from 2010 to 2012 following his graduation with a degree in business management. In 2013 he began a three-year stint with the women's program before rejoining the men's staff in 2016 and has been with them ever since. He spent the 2019 season serving as an assistant coach on the bench for the men's and women's programs at CSUSB.
In his time with the Yotes Peters has been involved in every aspect of both programs including recruiting, on-field coaching, scouting, video editing, and all administrative duties. He has no peers in his familiarity with CSUSB soccer over the past decade-plus.
Peters most recent stint on the men's side saw him as an integral part of their rise to their fifth-place national finish in 2019, the best season in program history and last in competition. He was on staff when head coach Darren Leslie was named the 2018 CCAA Coach of the Year and has coached 14 All-CCAA honorees, four All-Region selections, and First Team All-American Frank Daroma. He was on staff with the women's program that won 12 games in 2013 and 14 in 2014, a program record that still stands.
The 2020 season will be the third year for assistant coach Tanner Wolf with the PLNU women's soccer program. His duties with the program include recruiting, conditioning, strategy, scouting, and camps.
In his first season with the Sea Lions, PLNU went undefeated in PacWest play to capture the conference championship with a 10-0-1 record. The team then earned the program's first-ever win in the NCAA West Regional with a defeat of No. 22 Chico State. PLNU finished the year at 16-2-1, and its only losses were the first and last games of the season.
Point Loma also had one of the top defenses in the entire country. PLNU was 15th in save percentage (.869), fifth in goals-against average (.410) and second in shutout percentage (.737). The Sea Lions posted 14 shutouts in 19 matches and registered a streak of 812 consecutive shutout minutes.
The following season the Sea Lions were even better. They posted another undefeated PacWest season (9-0-2) and its second straight conference championship. PLNU upset both Cal Poly Pomona and No. 1 seed UC San Diego in the NCAA West Regional to advance to the first regional championship in program history.
Wolf joined the PLNU coaching staff after an impressive collegiate career at Westmont. He was a two-time All-Golden State Athletic Conference selection as a midfielder and was named team MVP in 2016 when he helped lead the Warriors to an 11-5-1 record and into the GSAC Championship game. He also named the team captain and the team's Most Improved Player.
After college, Wolf went on to play for the Ventura Fusion in the Premier Development League. His skills on the field caught the attention of Allen E Hopkins, Jr., a long-time soccer personality, MLS Cup Champion and CONCACAF Gold Cup Winner.