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Amy Zombeck Position: Head Coach Experience: 6th Year Alma Mater: Keene State 1999

Amy Zombeck returns for her sixth season as the winningest coach in UMass Boston women's soccer history and the 2009 Little East Conference Coach of the Year.

She made an immediate impact in her first season, guiding the team to its best winning percentage since 1997 behind the highest total of goals in eight years. In just her fourth season, Zombeck became the first women's soccer coach in school history to be named the LEC Coach of the Year after guiding the Beacons' women's soccer squad to its greatest season in school annals. She earned the honor for the second time last season as UMass Boston set new school marks for season and conference victories with an 14-5-1 record went on to post a 5-1-1 mark in LEC play to tie for the second-best mark in conference play to earn a third seed in the LEC tournament, their highest seeding ever. The Beacons advanced to the conference playoffs for only thesecond time in school history and won a quarterfinal match at home to cap a season that sawtwo UMass Boston players named to the LEC All-Conference team. Zombeck's recruiting classes of the past four seasons paid dividends last year as UMass Boston put together a school-record nine-match unbeaten streak during the season and finished with program records for goals (59), assists (44), points (162), shutouts (nine), corner kicks (91) and lowest goals against average (1.03). She took over a program that had not won more than three matches in a season since 1997 and is now the program's all-time victory leader with 19 and the only women's soccer coach in school history to win a playoff game for the Beacons.

Prior to her arrival in 2005, UMB had not had a player named to the All-Conference team since 1997, but Zombeck has seen her players named to the All-Star squad in each of the last four campaigns, including a First Team selection in 2007 to mark the first time in 10 years that the Beacons could make that claim. Since taking over, UMass Boston has placed a total of eight players on the All-Star team in addition to a Rookie of the Year selection.

Zombeck arrived at UMB after serving as the Assistant Coach for Keene State College women's soccer for four years.

Before joining the Keene State coaching staff, Zombeck was a highly decorated soccer player for the Owls, earning Little East Conference Player of the Year honors as a senior. The midfielder was named Second-Team All-American by the Division III National Soccer Coaches Association of America, as well as All-Regional First Team and Little East Conference First Team as both a junior and senior. Zombeck earned All-Region Second Team accolades for her junior and senior campaigns from the New England Women's Soccer Coaches Association of America and, following her sophomore year, she was tabbed as a member of the Division II NSCAA All-Regional Second Team after leading the Owls to an appearance in the NCAA tournament.

After graduating from Keene State in 1999 with a degree in sociology, Zombeck continued her career as both a coach and player. She coached in various soccer camps and leagues and enjoyed two seasons playing in the United States Independent Soccer League with the Springfield Sirens and the New Hampshire Lady Phantoms in 2000 and 2001, respectively.