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Jeannine Calhoun

Jeannine Calhoun

Calhoun enters her fifth season as the Ursinus Head Women's Soccer Coach in the fall of 2026. Since being named the program’s fifth head coach in March of 2022, Calhoun has begun the rebuild of the program with a record of 26-28-15.  
 
In her first season in Collegeville, the Bears saw vast improvement by finishing the 2022 season 7-6-4 overall and 3-5-2 in Centennial Conference play. The seven wins were the most overall wins for the team in four years, and Calhoun and her staff successfully coached a pair of All-Centennial selections in Kaela Frenchman (’24) and Morgan Raley (’23). Frenchman also set single-school records in goals against average (.76) and shut outs in a season (7).  

The 2023 season was highlighted by the performances of senior Izzy Allocco, an All-Conference honoree, and senior Madelyn Nau, who earned both All-Conference and All-Region honors and made 129 saves (2nd all-time).  

In 2025, the program made significant strides both in and out of conference, earning a 9-6-3 record, the program’s best since 2015. In the tightly contested Centennial Conference, the Bears narrowly missed a playoff berth. The conference recognized two sophomores, forward Taylor Pezulich and goalkeeper Mallory Toomey, with All-Conference Honors. The 2025 season also saw Ursinus break into the Top 100 of 413 Division III women’s soccer programs.  

Calhoun came to Ursinus after serving a 13-year stint as the head coach of Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, New Jersey, while also serving as an English teacher at the school. There she compiled a record of 201-66-13 and led the team to a pair of New Jersey Group IV State Championship titles in 2016 and 2019, the first two in the program’s 25-year history. Among her accolades, Calhoun was named the 2016 Top Drawer Soccer Regional Coach of the Year, the 2019 NJGSCA State Coach of the Year, and the 2019 Central Jersey Sectional Coach of the Year. In May of 2021, she was selected to coach the top seniors in the country in the Senior All-American Game in St. Louis Missouri.  For three years at Central, Calhoun mentored Emily Mason, a member of the US youth national teams and current defender for NWSL’s Seattle Reign. 

Prior to Central and several years of child rearing, Calhoun spent five seasons as the head coach of the LaSalle University Women's Soccer team from 1998 to 2002. Calhoun went 44-45-1 in her five seasons as the coach of her alma mater and guided the team to their first three winning seasons in the 16-year history of the program. Her 2000 squad ranked as the 11th most improved team in NCAA Division I and made the program's first appearance in the Atlantic 10 Tournament; in the same year, she was honored by her conference peers by being named the Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year. 

Calhoun, who earned a bachelor's degree from La Salle in 1993 in Secondary Education with tracks in English and Latin, graduated Summa Cum Laude and was a Rhodes Scholar Nominee.  She holds master's degree in Education from Walden University. A four-year member of the La Salle Women's Soccer team, she served as team captain and earned all-conference honors in 1992. Calhoun holds a United States Soccer Federation (USSF) 'A' license.  

Calhoun currently resides in Lambertville, N.J. with her three children: Caleigh, Shae, Gavin.