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Princeton University Athletics
Women's Soccer
- Title:
- Volunteer Assistant Coach
Julio Vacacela completed his 10th season as goalkeeper coach at Princeton in 2013.
Vacacela's tenure has seen six players lead Princeton's goalkeepers in minutes including four players leading the Tigers in minutes for two back-to-back seasons, with Emily Vogelzang in 2004 and '05, Maren Dale in 2006 and '07, Alyssa Pont in 2008 and '09, and Claire Pinciaro in 2011 and '12.
Vacacela has coached two All-Ivy League goalkeepers, including first-teamer Pont in 2008 and 2009 and second-teamer Pinciaro in 2012.
In 2008, Pont and the Tigers held opponents to a 0.50 goals-against average, good for seventh in all of Division I. The team posted shutouts in 10 of 17 games for a .588 shutout percentage, 14th nationally. In 2009, Pont allowed five goals in the entire Ivy League season and posted nine shutouts on the year.
During the 2006 and 2007 seasons, Vacacela assisted Dale in adjusting to her role as Princeton’s full-time goalkeeper. In those two years, Dale posted 14 shutouts.
In his first season of 2004, Princeton used a trio of goalkeepers, including Dale, Emily Vogelzang and Madeleine Jackson, the latter two of whom helped Princeton to its NCAA College Cup Final Four berth.
Vacacela is a 1991 graduate of Monmouth University, where he was a political science major and a four-time letterwinner for the men’s soccer team. He has worked with New Jersey Youth Soccer ODP since 2001, and he has been the head goalkeeper coach of the MatchFit Academy Youth Soccer Club since 2001.
Vacacela, who has a USSF National “D” License and an NSCAA Goalkeeper Level I & II diploma, lives in Howell with his wife Cindy, daughter Brianna Rose and son Ryan.
