Soccer Coaching Staff

Head Coach

Jesse Urquhart

Jesse Urquhart enters his third year as the head coach of the Saint Mary's soccer program in the fall of 2018.

Urquhart came to Saint Mary’s with coaching experience at the club, men’s collegiate, and women’s collegiate levels. After finishing his collegiate playing career, Urquhart first began coaching at Neumann University in Pennsylvania as an assistant men’s coach for the Knights. He developed and ran training sessions, was in charge of managing the team’s fundraising, budgeting, and equipment needs, and served as a recruiting coordinator for the program from 2008 to 2014. During that time, Urquhart gained additional experience while also coaching at Camden County College in New Jersey as well as at the New Jersey Rush and Highland Youth Soccer Club. Two of the New Jersey Rush girls club teams he worked with were state champions in the 2014 season.

In the fall of 2014, he started a two-year stint as the graduate assistant women’s soccer coach at Defiance College in Ohio. In that capacity, he coordinated the recruiting efforts, monitored academic study sessions, organized fundraisers, arranged the team’s travel plans, and advanced the program through film breakdown and analysis. While at Defiance, Urquhart coached U15 boys, U16 boys, and U18 girls at Valentis Athletica Soccer Club out of Bowling Green, Ohio.

In his first season with the Belles, seven soccer student-athletes earned MIAA Academic Honor Roll status by maintaining at 3.5 GPA or above for the academic year. Moreover, the team was honored with the MIAA Team GPA Award after holding a 3.389 cumulative GPA for 2016-17. Seven student-athletes garnered MIAA Academic Honor Roll distinctions in 2017 as the Belles repeated on the MIAA Team GPA Award list with a 3.333 GPA.

As a collegiate athlete, Urquhart competed at Camden County College and Neumann University. In his final two years of eligibility at Neumann, he set school records in goals in a season, points in a season, game-winning goals in a season, and assists in a season.

Urquhart earned a bachelor’s degree in sports management from Neumann University in 2009 and just recently completed a master’s degree in education with a concentration in sports coaching from Defiance College. He holds both a United States Soccer Federation National “C” license and a National Soccer Coaches Association of America Goalkeeper Level 1 diploma.

Some of Urquhart's professional accomplishments include:

Defiance College

NSCAA Team Academic Award
Seven All-Conference Award Recipients
Four players earned Division III Scholar All-East Region honors

Neumann University

2011 NCAA Sweet 16 - ranked No. 16 nationally
2010, 2011 NCAA Appearances
2009, 2012 ECAC Appearances
Five consecutive Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) tournament appearances
Four Conference Players of the Year and two Conference Rookies of the Year
42 Conference Award recipients, including 17 1st team selections
35 Conference Academic recipients
An ESPN Academic 1st Team All American
Two players earned professional soccer contracts post-graduation

Camden County College

First playoff appearance in five seasons
Consecutive playoff appearances 2010, 2011 seasons
Two First Team All-Region honorees

Assistant Coaches

Randy Rompola

Randy Rompola is serving in his 11th season as an assistant to the Saint Mary’s soccer program in 2018. He has coached youth travel soccer teams for the last 12 years with teams enjoying success in regional and state-wide leagues in Michigan and Indiana. He has had several former travel players continue their soccer careers in college with a few now coaching soccer themselves. Rompola has also served on the Board of Directors and as President of the Board of Michiana Echo Soccer, a local travel soccer club. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Indiana Soccer Foundation. Rompola has received the NSCAA Advanced Regional Diploma and the US Soccer National Youth License. After serving in the Air Force as an intelligence officer, he moved to the area to attend Notre Dame Law School and is currently a partner with a law firm in the area.

Mallory Conrad

Mallory Conrad is in her first season as an assistant with the Belles in 2018 and serves as a goalkeeping coach.

Liza Felix '17

Liza Felix joins the Belles soccer staff in the 2018 season as a volunteer assistant.

Faculty Advisor
Pat Pierce

Team Chaplain
Sister Louisita "Lou" Welsh, CSC