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.