Hampton University Women's Soccer

The Hampton University women’s soccer program took a significant leap forward with the hiring of Scot Vorwold as head coach on Jan. 8, 2024. for the Pirates. He

A native of Suffolk, Va., Becky Milburn joined the Hampton Sports Performance staff in November of 2023. She has gained experience in strength and conditioning having worked at three different universities in the Hampton Roads area as well as in Kentucky and Tennessee. She began her professional career in 2021 as a strength and conditioning intern at Old Dominion in Norfolk. After working with the Monarch football team, she served as an intern at Christopher Newport, working primarily with football as well as its other 23 varsity sports. After spending the Spring season at Christopher Newport, she moved to Lexington, Ky. Working as a summer intern with the Wildcats. After spending a valuable two months at Kentucky, she became a graduate assistant at Lincoln Memorial for the 2022-23 season. Primarily working with men's and women's volleyball men's and women's golf, women's lacrosse, and women's field hockey during her year in Tennessee, she returned home and worked as an intern at William & Mary before being a full-time assistant sports performance coach at Hampton. Milburn earned a bachelor's degree from West Virginia in 2020 in Sports and Exercise and Physiology and an MBA in Sports Management from Lincoln Memorial in 2024. She is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) by the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

HOMETOWN:    Los Pozos, Panama COACHING:      Coach, MKGK Academy, 2022-2024                            Hampton, Goalkeeper Coach, 2024-present Eduardo Barria

Hampton Roads native Matheau Hall Served as the interim head coach of the Hampton women’s soccer program in 2023. Heading into the 2024 season Hall will serve as

Melissa Fernandez is a native of Raleigh, N.C. who began her coaching career at the NAIA level at Thomas More. During her tenure with the program, the team had an impressive 12-6-2 record reaching the semifinal round of the highly competitive Mid-South Conference Tournament. Under her direction, the Saints had two student-athletes earn all-conference honors. Both Ryann Meddings and Sterre Harsveld van der Veen were 2022 Second Team All-Conference selections. In 2023, Fernandez made the jump to the Division II level coaching at Lake Erie. During a crucial rebuilding season, the team achieved many firsts and saw improvements to their offensive production, allowed fewer goals, and kept multiple clean sheets for the first time since 2019. The Storm would win its first conference contest for the first time since 2021. Fernandez also coached Leonie Witt, who earned a spot in the OSCA NCAA Women's Division II All-Ohio First Team. She had a successful playing career before joining the coaching ranks. She began her playing career at Auburn University at Montgomery. In 2017 she was named the Gulf South Conference Newcomer of the Year. With a strong start to her collegiate career, Fernandez transferred to East Carolina of the American Conference. She continued to excel on and off the pitch earning her Bachelor of Science in Communication. Post-graduation, Fernandez played professionally in the inaugural season of the USL Women's League for Lexington Sporting Club. From 2017-21 she pl