Gill Will Not Return as GCU Head Women's Soccer Coach

Grand Canyon University Vice President of Athletics Mike Vaught has announced that Stevie Gill will not return as women's head soccer coach, effective immediately. GCU has begun a nationwide search for Gill's replacement.

"I want to thank Stevie Gill for his hard work and all that he has done for the Grand Canyon soccer program, as a student-athlete, assistant coach and finally as the head coach of the women's team," Vaught said. "We appreciate his dedicated support of our student-athletes as we transitioned from Division II to Division I and wish him the best moving forward."

The Lopes concluded their 2015 season last Saturday with a 0-0 tie with CSU Bakersfield at GCU Soccer Field. The Lopes finished the year with a 7-9-2 (4-4-1 WAC) record and placed fourth in the conference standings. Gill spent eight seasons on the sidelines as head coach, compiling a 64-70-13 career record and was named the 2014 WAC Coach of the Year after compiling a 7-3-0 conference record.

The 2011 season was a historic year for the Gill and the women's soccer program as he took the squad to the first NCAA playoff berth in the history of the program with a Pacific West Conference record of 8-2-2. That followed up a 2010 season where the Lopes finished with an overall record of 11-5-1 (9-4-1 PacWest), and were ranked No. 9 in the West Region in both the final regular-season NCAA Division II poll and the final regular-season National Soccer Coaches Association of America vote. The 11 wins were the most in Gill's tenure as head coach.

A four-year captain of the men's soccer team, Gill graduated from GCU in May 2000 before rejoining the school as an assistant in 2003.

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