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Associate Head Women's Soccer Coach
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Fifth Season
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Missouri State '99
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Jeff Freeman enters his seventh season with the University of Miami women's soccer team and third as the associate head coach. His duties include working with team practices and game preparation, assisting in recruiting and administrative duties, including compliance regulation, travel, and coordinating camps. He is a United States Soccer Federation (USSF) `A' Licensed Coach and also holds a NSCAA Advanced National Diploma.
Freeman has been essential to the rise of Miami Soccer as a national power, helping take the Hurricanes from a 3-13 season his first year in 2004, to two straight NCAA Tournament appearances in 2007 and 2008 and a top 25 ranking at some point during each of the past 3 seasons. He also continues to help bring to Miami Soccer some of the nation's top recruiting classes.
Before being named the Associate Head Coach at Miami, Freeman's goalkeepers had an amazing amount of success. 2008 Freshman All-American Vikki Alonzo shattered the school record for shutouts by holding 11 teams scoreless and set a new goals against average record of just 0.88. All of this while also becoming the single season leader in saves with 114. Previous to Alonzo, Freeman molded four year starting goalkeeper Lauren McAdam into the most honored goalkeeper in the programs history. McAdam is currently the Hurricanes career leader in saves, holds two of the top three spots for the lowest goals against average in a season, and held the record for most shutouts in a season broken by Alonzo. In 2007, McAdam was also named Soccer America Team of Week, Soccer Buzz National Player of the Week, NSCAA National Player of Week, and ACC Player of the Week.
Freeman came to Miami following a four-year stint as an assistant coach at Missouri State. In 2000 Missouri State won the Missouri Valley Conference title and had its first and only appearance in the NCAA Tournament to date. Freeman's goalkeepers were named Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) Defensive Player of the Year, MVC Tournament Most Valuable Player, MVC Defensive Player of the Week on six different occasions and selected as the team's MVP for two seasons. Prior to serving as a full-time assistant coach, Freeman was the volunteer goalkeeper coach in 1998.
Freeman has been involved with various high school programs throughout his coaching career, including serving as the head coach at Parkview High School in 1999 and is currently the Assistant Director of Coaching at Pinecrest Premier in Pinecrest, Fla. A native of Blue Springs, Mo., Freeman was an academic all-conference goalkeeper at Missouri State and a member of the 1997 team that made a jump into the national scene by earning a national top 10 ranking, while making the Bear's first ever NCAA Tournament appearance.
He holds both a bachelor's and master's degree in education from Missouri State.
