Former Canadian soccer team member, Lisa Unsworth, begins her third season as the head coach of the Pioneers’ varsity soccer team in 2006. Unsworth comes to Portland from Calgary, Alberta, where previously she was the head coach of the Calgary Wildfire, a USL W-League team.
     From 2000-2004, Unsworth was the head women’s soccer coach at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada. St. Francis has been named the #1 primary undergraduate college in Canada by MacLean’s magazine. Twice in her tenure, her X-Women teams competed in the conference finals. Unsworth also coached a U-13 Provincial team in Nova Scotia to a gold medal in 2003. Previously, she spent the 1997 season as the first assistant at the University of Kansas and earlier was a graduate assistant coach at both Drury University and Gonzaga University.
     Unsworth had an outstanding playing career, highlighted by being named as a Canadian National team member from 1991-93. She was also a member of the Alberta Provincial team from 1988-1993, competing in the Canada Games finals in 1993. In 2001, she was selected as an assistant coach for the Canadian National team which competed in the FISU World Student Games in Beijing, China.
     Lisa earned bachelor’s degrees from The University of Calgary and Gonzaga University, and her Master of Education from Drury University in Springfield, Missouri.
     Unsworth is also an instructor of Physical Education at the College.