Jessica Chisley
| Title: | Assistant Coach |
| Phone: | (859) 238-5940 |
| Email: | jessica.chisley@centre.edu |
| Year: | 7th year at Centre |
| Hometown: | Frankfort, Ky. |
| College: | Centre College `04 |
Assistant Coach
Jessica Chisley enters her seventh season with the Centre College
women's soccer program. A 2004 Centre graduate, Chisley holds a
Bachelor of the Arts in music. During her four-year career, Chisley
was a two-sport student-athlete – serving as a four-year
starting goalkeeper for the women's soccer team (which she
captained her junior and senior years) and a three-year starting
shortstop for the softball team. On the soccer field, she ended her
career earning All-SCAC, All-Great Lakes Region, and SCAC
Co-Defensive Player of the Year honors.
Chisley's
primary responsibilities for the Women's Soccer program include:
instructing the team's goalkeepers and working with the team's
defense; recruiting (including on-campus and in-home visits as well
as travel); game day organization; and coaching the program's
reserve team. An 11-year veteran of the Centre Women's Soccer Camp,
Chisley is the Head Goalkeeping Clinician. She is also a member of
the Morehead State University Women's Soccer summer camp staff
where she is responsible for instructing the
goalkeepers.
Chisley's
coaching career has been filled with many memorable moments. In
2005, she was selected to the SCAC 15th-Anniversary team. In the
same year she earned her NSCAA Regional Goalkeeping Diploma and was
named the Head Girls Soccer Coach at Boyle County Middle School.
After seven years of service to the school, Chisley retired to
become the Assistant Women's Lacrosse Coach at her alma
mater.
A pivotal moment
in Chisley's career came in the winter of 2007 when she became a
graduate of the NCAA Women Coaches Academy. An extremely difficult
program to be accepted into (hundreds apply, but only a handful are
accepted), the NCAA Women Coaches Academy provides skills training
for women coaches at all levels. Each participant learns skills
that are not sport specific, yet are relevant and necessary for
coaching responsibilities, beyond just the X’s and O’s.
By the end of the Academy, its graduates leave with a renewed
commitment to personal and professional growth which honors the
career responsibilities of being an Athletic Coach. Having had this
unique opportunity, Chisley considers herself both "blessed and
fortunate".
In the summer of
2008, Chisley laced up the boots one last time and played
semi-professional soccer in Virginia as a member of the
Fredericksburg Lady Gunners. Just a few months later, she would
help coach the Colonels to their first-ever National tournament
bid. In the years following, Centre would continue to experience
many successes. In 2009, Centre posted the fewest losses in a
single-season in the program's history and also broke the
team’s shut-out record. This past season (2011), Centre
earned their second NCAA tournament bid and advanced into the
second round of tournament play.
Chisley is truly
proud of the advances the team continues to make and the direction
in which the program is heading.
