Returning to the King’s women’s soccer team in 2012 is assistant coach Johanna Gelber.
Gelber made a major overall impact on the program during her first season at King's in 2010, being named the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Middle Atlantic Region "Assistant Coach of the Year".
Gelber enters her third season with the Lady Monarchs after serving the 2009 campaign as assistant women’s soccer coach at Arcadia University, helping the team to a 14-3-2 record by working with the team’s goalies. Prior to her arrival at Arcadia, she spent one year as assistant women’s soccer coach at Widener University where she helped the squad to a 11-4-2 record, also working with the goalies.
In 2006 and 2007, she was assistant women’s soccer coach at Swarthmore College. In her first season, the squad went 14-2-3 and won an Eastern College Athletic Conference championship while spending five weeks ranked in the Division III national top-25. The following year, Swarthmore was 15-5-1 and finished second in the Centennial Conference Tournament.
From 2004-through-2009, she was a coaching staff member of the West Chester United Soccer Club. She has also served as a coach with the Youth Soccer Alliance in Voorhees, N.J. since 2007.
As a player, Gelber began her collegiate career at Elmira College where she played one season of both soccer and lacrosse. She eventually moved on to Chestnut Hill College where she helped the team to the 2004 and 2005 AWCC championships and a pair of berths in the NCAA Division III national tournament. An outstanding all-around athlete, she also played three-years of varsity lacrosse at Chestnut Hill.
Gelber earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in human services from Chestnut Hill and completed her Master's of Science degree in Sports Management from Neumann College in 2011.
She holds several NSCAA coaching certificates, including NSCAA Advanced National Diploma; NSCAA Director of Coaching Diploma; NSCAA Youth Diploma; and NSCAA Goalkeeping I and II Diploma.
