Women's Soccer - Coach Profile: Kevin Doherty
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Coach Doherty

Now entering his 12th season as head women's soccer coach, Kevin Doherty is nearing the 100-win mark as he is just five wins shy of the milestone. The team has notched five winning seasons during his tenure and qualified for the Freedom Conference playoffs in 2000 and 2005.

Doherty's program has produced 27 all-conference and four conference Player of the Year selections. Emilie Replogle burst onto the scene in the mid 1990s and earned three conference Player of the Year awards while placing in the top 10 on the all-time NCAA Division III scoring lists. In 2005, Ana Mecaj was named the Freedom Conference Player of the Year (Ana Mecaj) and Rookie of the Year (Emily Perryman).

Doherty's players excel in the classroom as well as the Aggies have had 44 honorees on the Freedom Conference All-Academic Team during his tenure. Three players have also earned Academic All-American honors on four occasions.

Doherty became the head coach in 1996 after serving as the assistant head coach the previous year. He led the team to an 11-4-1 record in his first year, and battled seven-time defending conference champ Scranton for the final playoff berth on the last day of the season.

The team followed with back-to-back 12-win campaigns (12-7 in 1997 and 12-4-1 in 1998) and finished third in the Freedom Conference each time. In 1999, the Aggies went 9-10 and finished third in the league despite losing its all-time leading scorer to graduation then had its top defender go down with a season-ending injury in game four.

The 2000 squad became the first soccer team - male or female - in school history to reach the conference playoffs. In 2005, Doherty led a young squad with five freshmen in the starting lineup to a return trip to the postseason. After a scoreless match, they succumbed to a late goal and a 1-0 loss.

Prior to his role with the women's team, Doherty was an assistant coach for the Aggie men's squad from 1990 to 1995. He picked up the title of assistant head coach in 1993.

Doherty's name can be found in the men's soccer record books as he scored three goals and assisted on four others for 10 points in a 1985 game versus Beaver College. The assist and point totals are still team records while the goal output is tied for the school mark.