Head Coach Ashley Phillips

Ashley Phillips enters her ninth season as the head coach of the Northeastern women’s soccer team during 2024, having been named the program’s fourth head coach on March 2, 2016. She previously served as the Huskies’ assistant coach from 2010 to 2015, earning promotion to associate head coach in 2015 and interim head coach in 2016.

In Phillips coaching career with the Huskies, she became the first head coach during CAA history to win the conference’s regular season and postseason championships during their first season as head coach in 2016. She has added 46 All-Conference award mentions, including Alexis Legowski, who earned All-CAA honors in each of her five seasons, and Julianne Ross, who earned four All-CAA First Team awards. Phillips has coached Northeastern to 13 straight CAA Tournaments which is the longest active streak in the conference. She has also guided Northeastern’s attack to the single-season program record for goals scored in 2017 recording a total of 41 goals and helped Northeastern secure the No. 3 ranking in the United Soccer Coaches (formerly NSCAA) Mid-Atlantic Regional Poll upon entering the 2016 NCAA tournament.

Phillips' playing career first started when she won the 2003 Gatorade Massachusetts Player of the Year during her senior season in high school. She then went on to play in college at Clemson University where she was the starting goalkeeper from 2004 to 2007. During her time at Clemson, Phillips had won All-ACC First Team in 2017, three-time United Soccer Coaches All-Southeast Region Honoree, and All-American Third Team in 2006. She reached the NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals during her junior year and currently holds the program's career saves record at 326 saves making her single-season best 119 saves. Ashley Phillips started first playing professional soccer with the Boston Renegades from 2002 to 2006 and then for the Atlanta Silverbacks in 2008 where she competed in the USL W-League going undefeated as the starting goalkeeper for Atlanta. She then played one season for the Boston Aztecs in 2009 and then finished off her professional soccer career playing with the Boston Breakers until 2013.