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J.P. Sousa enters his sixth season as head coach of the Catholic
University women’s soccer team. He came to the team as an
assistant coach during the 2001 season and has been
instru¬mental in the recent success of the program. Since
taking over as head coach in 2004, Sousa has set the mark for
winningest coach in school history with a 61-29-11 record and has
led the team to four straight post-season appearances.
In 2008, the squad posted 10 wins, eight losses, and two ties en
route to a second place regular season finish and the Landmark
Conference championship game. They were also selected to
participate in the ECAC South Region Tournament for the third
consecutive year. Under Sousa’s direction in 2005, the
Cardinals enjoyed their most successful season in school history
with an 18-1-2 record. They completed an undefeated regular season,
won the Capital Athletic Conference Championship, and advanced to
the NCAA Tournament for the first time ever. They placed a record
seven players on the All-CAC teams and swept the post-season
awards, including Sousa’s first Capital Athletic Conference
Women’s Soccer Coach of the Year honor.
A standout forward for two years at Western Connecticut State
University, after transferring to WCSU from George Mason University
in 1996, Sousa went on to lead the team in scoring with six goals
and 17 points his junior year and was ranked fifth in scoring in
the Little East Conference. As a senior, Sousa tallied another six
goals, leading his team to the ECAC New England Region Tournament,
and was nominated for the Academic All-America team.
Sousa began coaching youth soccer in 1998 for Eastern FC of
Greenwich and led their U13 boys team to the Connecticut state cup
title and an appearance in the USYSA Region I Championships. Sousa
then moved to Vienna, Va., where he coached U15 girls and U13 boys
for Vienna Youth Soccer from 1999 to 2002. Since then, he has spent
time training girls youth teams for the McLean and Chantilly (Va.)
soccer clubs, was an assis¬tant coach for both the boys and
girls varsity teams at Oakton High School for four years, and
joined the Northern District Virginia ODP coaching staff in 2004.
Sousa also coaches Super Y League soccer for the Northern Virginia
Majestics, assisting with the U17 and U20 girls teams.
Originally from Danbury, Conn., Sousa was a three-year starting
varsity player at Danbury High School earning all-conference honors
twice and all-area honors once. He led all area scorers with 22
goals and 11 assists as a senior in 1993. While Sousa played for
Danbury, the team won three consecutive conference titles, was a
state finalist in 1991, state semi-finalist in 1993, and ranked as
high as #14 nationally in the NSCAA/USA Today poll. He also earned
all-conference and all-state honors in track and field.
Sousa graduated from Western Connecticut State University in 1998
with a bachelor’s degree in political science, and earned his
master’s degree in education for school counseling at George
Mason University in 2006. He holds the Advanced Regional coaching
diploma from the NSCAA and resides in Fairfax, Va., with his wife,
Suzanne.
Rob Summers
Rob Summers returns to the CUA coaching staff for his fifth season
after serving as a volunteer assistant in 2004. He will continue to
assist Coach Sousa with the day-to-day operations of the team, as
well as helping with the goalkeeper training.
Summers played one year of soccer at Nathaniel Hawthorne College in
New Hampshire in 1987 before beginning his coaching career in 1995
at Valley High School in Albuquerque, N.M. He also ran clinics for
youth teams in the Duke City Soccer League of Albuquerque. After
finishing his bachelor’s degree at Cornell University,
Sum¬mers coached boys varsity soccer at the Hyde School of
Woodstock, Conn., in 1998. Summers coached the boys JV soccer team
at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., during the spring
of 2001 before moving to Massachusetts, where he coached the
Arlington High School girls JV soccer team in 2002 and 2003. For
the past five years he has taught social studies at Washington-Lee
High School in Arlington, Va., where he was also the head coach of
the girls varsity soccer team from 2005 to 2007.
Summers graduated from Cornell University in 1997 with a
bachelor’s degree in American studies and religious studies,
and earned a master’s degree in social studies education from
New York University in 2000. He currently resides in Washington,
D.C., with his wife, Corie, and their two daughters, Kaia and
Ruby.
Lon Pringle
Lon Pringle joins the coaching staff at Catholic Univer¬sity in
2009 after serving as a volunteer assistant for the past three
years. He brings a wealth of experience to CUA, having coached
youth soccer throughout North¬ern Virginia since 1996 and
worked as both a high school assistant and head coach for more than
a decade.
Pringle played one year of soccer at Defiance College in Ohio in
1987 before transferring to James Madison University the following
year. After finishing his bachelor’s degree at JMU, he began
his coaching career as the boys varsity assistant coach at West
Potomac High School in Alexandria, Va., in 1994. He moved over to
Centreville High School to assist with the boys varsity soccer team
in 1995 and 1996. In 1997, Pringle began an eight-year run as an
assistant coach for the boys and girls varsity teams at Oakton High
School before serving as the girls varsity head coach at Oakton in
2005 and 2006. He did all of this while also coaching girls youth
soccer in the area, most recently leading the Chantilly (Va.)
Arsenal from 2005 to 2008 then joining FC Virginia this past year
to work with their U17 teams.
Pringle graduated from James Madison University in 1993 with a
bachelor’s de¬gree in history. He teaches social studies
at Westfield High School in Chantilly, Va., and resides in Aldie,
Va., with his wife, Michelle, and daughter Emilie.
Deanna Keil
Deanna Keil begins her first season on the CUA coaching staff,
where she returns to her alma mater after enjoying an extremely
successful playing career from 2002 to 2005. During that time she
was a four-year starting defender for the Cardinals, leading her
team to a school-record 18 wins, a conference championship, and a
trip to the NCAA Tournament as a senior captain. Keil graduated
from Catholic University in 2006 with a bachelor’s of science
degree in architecture, and also earned her master’s degree
in architecture from CUA in 2008.
Originally from Allentown, Pa., she works for Zimmer Gunsul Frasca
Architects in Washington, D.C., and lives in Silver Spring, Md.
