Jennifer Nance enters her second season as the women’s soccer graduate assistant coach in 2018.
A year ago, the Bobcats earned 10 wins, including six at Bobcat Stadium with eight wins coming via shutout. The eight shutouts ranked the Bobcats second in the CAC standings. Frostburg earned its spot in the league title game after shutting out rival Salisbury 1-0 in the semifinals.
Nance arrived at Frostburg after concluding a highly successful playing career at University of Maryland Baltimore County (
UMBC). Nance started in 37 career games as the Retrievers’ goalkeeper, posting an 0.89 goals against average.
In 2015, Nance was awarded the Most Improved Player of the
UMBC women’s soccer team and was also nominated as the team’s Breakout Player of the Year. She was a Second Team All-America East Conference selection in 2014.
Nance was a sports marketing associate at
UMBC for two years (2014-16), where she helped aid in promotion of athletic events, playing music and assisting the sports marketing department.
She graduated from
UMBC in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and minor in management of aging studies and sociology.
Nance was the senior captain of the 2011
Severna Park high school girl’s soccer team that won the county and regional championships.
She will be pursuing a master’s degree at Frostburg State University.