Nicole Van Dyke has been hired as the next women’s soccer coach at Washington, athletic director Jennifer Cohen announced Saturday.
Van Dyke, who becomes the third head coach in program history after Lesle Gallimore, spent the past five seasons leading Pennsylvania of the Ivy League.
Outside of her stint in Philadelphia, Van Dyke has spent the entirety of her collegiate coaching and playing career in California, most recently serving as the associate head coach at Stanford.
Prior to Stanford, she coached at CSU Bakersfield and Cal State Stanislaus.
In five years at Penn, the Quakers went 41-24-15 and won the Ivy League for the fourth time in school history.