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Tucker Reynolds

Tucker Reynolds

Title: Head Women's Soccer Coach
Phone: 508-620-1220 ext. 4425
Email: womenssoccer@framingham.edu

Tucker Reynolds is entering his 7th season as the head coach of the women's soccer program. Reynolds has been coaching for 20 years. He began his career as a coach as the Director and President of Medway Youth Soccer. He has coached club soccer with Bandits S.C., Charles River United, F.C. Greater Boston Bolts, and the New England Eagles.

Reynolds coached high school soccer for eight years ending with a five year stint as head coach of the boys' program at Medfield High School. He moved on to become an assistant coach at Tufts University in 2004. He is in his 12th consecutive year as a coach in the Massachusetts Olympic Development Program (ODP) as head coach of the U14 girls' teams.  

Reynolds is a staff coach for the USYSA Region 1 ODP Girls' Program and a staff instructor for MAYouth Soccer. He has worked for numerous area soccer camps and is the Girls' Director of the Lightning College Prep Camps. In 2003 MAYouth Soccer Association named Reynolds Boys' Coach of the Year and in November 2006 Coach Reynolds was named the Division III Co-Coach of the Year by D3Kicks.com.

In September 2007 the NCAA honored the 2006 Women's Soccer team with its National Sportsmanship award.  He holds an NSCAA Advanced National Diploma and a USSF C-License. Reynolds and his wife, Nunzi, live in Medway, MA where he is a lawyer in private practice. They have three children, all of whom enjoyed careers in intercollegiate athletics.

Carla DeSantis

Carla DeSantis

Title: Assistant Coach

Carla DeSantis is in her first season as assistant coach with the Framingham State University Women's Soccer program. She comes to the Rams after spending nine seasons as head women's soccer coach at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and as head coach at the United States Coast Guard Academy for four years.

A native of Sudbury, Mass., DeSantis graduated from the University of Massachusetts, where she earned All-Region, All-New England and NCAA Division I All-American honors as a goalkeeper in soccer. A two-sport student-athlete, she also threw the javelin for the track & field team, earning All-East honors and being named the Two-Sport Female Athlete of the Year at UMass for the 1988-89 season. Her teams at UMass twice advanced to the Final Four, hosting the NCAA Division I Finals in 1987 and losing in the championship game to North Carolina. DeSantis was also in the United States National Team pool, playing on the U.S. "B" team during the 1991 World Cup.

DeSantis began her coaching career at Lincoln-Sudbury H.S. Then, after serving as an assistant coach at George Washington, she began the women's soccer program at Tulane and served as head coach of the Green Wave from 1995-98. After earning her master's degree at Middle Tennessee State, Carla also served as an assistant coach at Minnesota State-Mankato before joining the staff at Coast Guard.

DeSantis is a member of the Senior Coaching Staff of Region 1 Olympic Development Program. She holds both a United States Soccer Federation "A" coaching license and a Premier Diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.