California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo Women's Soccer

Bernardo Silva, who previously served as an assistant on the Cal Poly coaching staff from 2013-16, was named the second head coach in the history of the Cal Poly women’s soccer program on Dec. 21, 2024. “I’m so incredibly proud to welcome Bernardo back to the Mustang family,” Director of Athletics Don Oberhelman said. “He brings a tremendous amount of energy, passion and purpose to everything he does, and I’m confident those attributes will translate into our women’s soccer program excelling at a high level for a number of years under his leadership.” Silva comes to Cal Poly after spending the last two seasons as the head coach at Cal State Bakersfield (2023-24). In 2024, Silva led the Roadrunners to unprecedented success. After being picked to finish ninth out of 11 teams in the Big West Preseason Coaches Poll, Silva helped CSUB women’s soccer become the first team in the school’s history to reach a Big West Championship since the institution joined the conference. Making their first-ever appearance in the Big West postseason tournament this fall, Silva guided the Roadrunners on a remarkable run to accomplish the historic feat. As the No. 5 seed in the conference tournament, CSUB took down three-time defending Big West champion UC Irvine 1-0 in the first round before securing a decisive 3-0 victory over No. 1 seed and Big West regular season championship Hawai’i in the semifinals to earn the program’s first Big West Championship appearance. In the final, the Roadrunners batt

Izzi Bautista was hired as an assistant coach for the Cal Poly women’s soccer program in July 2025, and elevated to Assistant Coach & Player Performance Specialist in February 2026 following her first season on the staff. Bautista comes to Cal Poly after an impressive four-year stint (2021-24) as an assistant coach at Colorado Mesa, where she aided the Mavericks to a 56-18-10 overall record, a 37-10-1 mark in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference regular season play and a berth to the NCAA Tournament in back-to-back seasons (2023-24). Under Bautista, Colorado Mesa boasted 11 All-RMAC first team honorees, six second team picks and seven honorable mention selections. A native of Bristol, England, Bautista played a pivotal role in helping Colorado Mesa achieve one of its most successful seasons in program history in 2023. The Mavericks set a new single-season program record for wins with a 18-4-1 record and secured the program’s second-ever RMAC Tournament Championship and first since 1998 to punch their ticket to the NCAA Division II Tournament. In their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2011, the Mavericks won multiple NCAA Tournament games for the first time in program history, advancing to the Third Round and the South Central Regional final. In 2024, Colorado Mesa posted a 14-2-4 overall record to finish with its third most wins in a season in program history, advancing to the NCAA Tournament for the second straight year and making it to the Second Round. Bautista, who he

Jenae Packard, a former standout midfielder at the University of the Pacific, joined the Cal Poly coaching staff as the Director of Operations in August 2024. Packard served as the Director of Operations under legendary coach Alex Crozier during the 2024 season and is part of head coach Bernardo Silva's inaugural staff at Cal Poly. Packard, a Brentwood, Calif. native, was a member of the Pacific Tigers women’s soccer team from 2018-22 and played professionally for Fortuna Hjørring in the Danish Women’s League, the top-flight division in Denmark, in 2023. Across her Pacific career, Packard played in 85 games, tallying seven goals and 11 assists. During her final season as a Tiger in 2022, Packard led the team in goals (four) and assists (six), and set career-highs in goals, assists, points and game-winning goals while earning All-West Coast Conference Second Team honors. In 2022, Packard helped Tormenta FC in Statesboro, Georgia, win its first-ever USL W League championship. Packard graduated from Pacific in 2022 with her bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in sport management and was a two-time WCC All-Academic First Team honoree.

Three-time Big West Tournament Champion and former Big West Goalkeeper of the Year Morgan Lark was named the goalkeeper coach for the Cal Poly women’s soccer program in January 2026. Lark, formerly Bertsch, was a standout goalkeeper at Cal State Fullerton from 2014-17, helping the Titans capture three Big West Tournament titles and two Big West regular season championships during her career. Lark, who played professionally, joins the Mustangs after spending the past two seasons as a goalkeeper coach at Division II Fresno Pacific. Lark, 29, had a sensational senior season at Fullerton in 2017 as she was named Big West Co-Goalkeeper of the Year and earned a spot on the All-Big West First Team. She started in all 22 matches for the Titans that season, recording nine shutouts — fourth most in a season in program history — a 12-6-3 record and a 0.745 goals against average. She also claimed Big West Tournament MVP honors to help CSUF advance to the NCAA Tournament for the fourth time in five years. In her first season as the goalkeeper coach at Fresno Pacific in 2024, Lark helped goalkeeper Monique Nevarez set a new single-season school record for shutouts (seven) and helped improve the Sunbirds’ defense tremendously as the team allowed just 17 goals that season compared to the 49 they allowed the year prior. In addition to her experience at FPU, Lark has been providing private and small group training to players of all ages and levels in the Central Valley area since 2021 through

Scott Williams is entering his 11th year with the program in 2025 and fourth season as associate head coach. Williams and head coach Bernardo Silva served as assistants together on the Cal Poly women’s soccer staff during the 2015 and 2016 seasons prior to rejoining forces in January 2025 to lead the Mustangs. “In speaking with Coach Silva throughout the interview process, I was impressed with his level of clarity and detail for the future of this program,” Williams said. “I believe wholeheartedly that under his leadership, this program is going places." Williams first joined the women’s soccer coaching staff in 2015 as a volunteer assistant after completing his master’s degree in Kinesiology and Exercise Science from Cal Poly. Williams was promoted to assistant coach in 2017 and helped the program reach historic heights under the stewardship of legendary head coach Alex Crozier. In 2021, Williams helped led a resurgence of the program as the Mustangs secured a share of their first Big West regular season championship in eight years, earned their most victories in a season since 2009 (13-8-0) and advanced to their first Big West tournament title match in 12 years. Following the historic campaign, Williams was promoted to associate head coach in March 2022. In 2022, the Mustangs captured their first outright Big West regular season title since 2013 and the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament. It marked just the second time in program history the Mustangs earned at least a