Margueritte Aozasa

Margueritte Aozasa made history in 2022, becoming the first rookie head coach and first woman of color ever to win the NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer championship.

Aozasa was hired in December 2021 as the sixth head coach in UCLA women’s soccer history and promptly guided her team to the program’s second NCAA Championship and a school record-tying 22 victories. She was named 2022 Pac-12 Coach of the Year, and she and her staff were selected the United Soccer Coaches National Staff of the Year.

Aozasa began her career as an assistant coach at Stanford where she was selected to the United Soccer Coaches’ 30 Under 30 Class and helped lead the Cardinal to great success, including NCAA Championships in 2017 and 2019 and Pac-12 titles from 2015-19.

Aozasa was a four-year starter at Santa Clara University. A WCC All-Academic team member, she graduated from Santa Clara with a major in psychology and minors in public health and Spanish. She has a masters in Coaching and Athletic Administration from Concordia University, Irvine and her U.S. Soccer “A” Coaching License.

She is one of just four Asian American women currently serving as a head coach for a NCAA women’s soccer team.