Women's Soccer Coaching Staff
Now in his fifth season on Guilford's sidelines, Eric Lewis already owns the school record for women's soccer coaching wins and is bidding to take the Quakers to their first women's soccer conference title. He owns a 45-33-7 record in four seasons at Guilford, which combined with two successful campaigns at Louisburg Junior College, give him an 84-38-8 mark in six years as a head coach.
The Quakers set the school record for wins in a season for the second year in a row under Lewis in 2005. Guilford reached the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Tournament finals for the first time in school history in 2005 thanks to an upset of previously unbeaten Virginia Wesleyan in the tourney semifinals. In 2004, Lewis guided Guilford to school standards for ODAC wins (7) and longest unbeaten streak (13) in 2004.
The Quakers’ eighth women’s soccer coach, Lewis has coached two all-region student-athletes, six all- state performers, and eight All-ODAC selections at Guilford.
Lewis took over as Guilford's women's soccer coach in 2002, returning to Greensboro from Louisburg. Louisburg compiled a 39-5-1 record in 2001 and 2002 under Lewis, which helped him earn a pair of Region X Coach of the Year Awards. The 2001 unit reached the National Junior College Athletic Association District D finals and was ranked 12th in the final national junior college poll.
A native of Chapel Hill, NC, Lewis works extensively as an administrator with the North Carolina Girls Soccer Camp during the summer. Lewis coached the girls’ varsity soccer team at Northern Durham High School in 2000 and was at East Chapel Hill High School the previous season. He assisted the state champion girls’ team at Southwest Guilford in 1997 and has made scholastic coaching stops at Northwest Guilford, McMichael and Jordan. Lewis assisted Guilford's men's soccer team in 1998.
Lewis received a bachelor’s degree in sport management from UNC Greensboro in 1996 and completed requirements for a bachelor’s degree in history from High Point in 1998.
Emily
Johnson
joined Guilford College's athletic staff in August, 2004, as an assistant women's
soccer coach and works with the Quakers' goalkeepers on head
coach Eric Lewis' staff. In Johnson's first year, the Quakers' goalies set a school record by recording a 1.16 goals-against average. The team’s top two netminders, Veronica Zych and Danielle Brisotti '06, posted the first- and fourth-lowest individual goal against averages in school history, respectively. In 2005 the pair combined for a school-record nine shutouts.
Johnsonearned Second Team All-America honors in 1993 as a goaltender for Ithaca
College and played on the Bombers' 1991 national championship team. She earned
Second Team Academic All-District I honors in 1994 and 1995 and ranks second
among Ithaca's career goals against average leaders (0.43). Her 37 career wins rank third in school history, as do her 34 career
shutouts. Ithaca compiled a
67-10-13 record in Johnson's four seasons and reached the NCAA Division
III playoffs four times. A native
of Shutesbury, MA, Johnson received her bachelor's degree in physical
education teaching from Ithaca in 1995 and is pursuing her master's degree in
physical education from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Cortland.
After graduating from Ithaca, Johnson assisted the women's
soccer team and taught in Cortland's physical education department from 1995-98.
She helped the Red Dragons to a 32-20-4 record in three seasons.
Following her tenure at Cortland, she spent a year as an assistant
women's soccer coach at Bentley College.
Johnson served as the head women's soccer coach at Ferrum College from 2000-02 and spent the past two seasons as an assistant women's soccer coach and goalkeeper trainer at Greensboro College. The Pride compiled a 23-13-4 record in her two years.