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Mailing Address

Aliceann Wilber

Head Soccer Coach

William Smith College

Winn-Seeley Gym

Geneva, NY 14456

(315) 781-3933

wilber@hws.edu
 

Coaching Staff

Head Coach Aliceann Wilber

Assistant Coach Chas Allen

Assistant Coach Keith Perrigo

Head Coach Aliceann Wilber

Head Coach Aliceann WilberThe only soccer coach William Smith has ever known, Aliceann Wilber built the Herons from the ground up into one of the most successful and widely respected programs in the nation. Along the way, she has solidified her place among the legendary names of collegiate soccer coaches.

Last season, William Smith earned its 20th consecutive postseason appearance, winning an ECAC Championship in the process, and recording an 11-6-3 overall mark. The legendary coach registered her 23rd straight winning season, and her 350th career win, becoming the first woman in collegiate soccer history to reach that lofty milestone.

In 2005, the Herons reached the NCAA Tournament and posted a 15-2-1 overall record, while in 2003 Wilber led the Herons to an ECAC Northeast Championship with an impressive 15-5-2 mark.

In 2002, Wilber took William Smith to a record 16th consecutive NCAA Division III Tournament, where a young Heron squad surprised many with a run to the national semifinals. William Smith posted 17 victories (one shy of the school record) that year.

Including the 1988 national championship, Wilber's career record with the Herons stands at 356-112-39 (.741).

In 2003, Wilber received the NSCAA’s prestigious Bill Jeffrey Award for her outstanding achievement and longtime dedication to college soccer. She is the first woman to win the award. Wilber earned unprecedented back-to-back Division III Women’s Soccer Coach of the Year Awards in 1987 and 1988. After winning the same honor in 1991, she remains one of eight collegiate coaches (and the only woman) to win the award three times at any level. Wilber was honored again in 1993, 1995, and 1999 as the NSCAA Regional Coach of the Year. She also won four consecutive NYSWCAA Coach of the Year Awards between 1999 and 2002. In 2007, Wilber was honored again by the NYSWCAA, this time with a Service Award for her meritorious commitment to women in intercollegiate athletics.

An exceptional mentor, Wilber has coached more Division III first-team All-Americans (15) than any other Division III women’s coach. In fact, William Smith is one of only 11 Division III schools to have two players named first-team All-Americans in the same season. Just three schools have accomplished the feat more than once, while only the Herons have had two first-team All-Americans in three different seasons (1988, 1991, 2001). In 2002, goalie Leah Cornwell ’03 became the first Heron to be named NSCAA Player of the Year.

Since the NCAA instituted regional tournament play in 1993, William Smith has won six Northeast Region Championships (1993, ’95, ’97, 2000, ’01, ’02), and advanced to the championship round in 1987, ’88, ’93, ’95, ’97, and 2002.

 

Assistant Coach Charles Allen

Assistant Coach Charles AllenCharles “Chas” Allen enters his second season as an assistant coach for the Heron soccer team. He also directed the William Smith junior varsity team in 2005.

Previously the head coach of the Cayuga Community College men’s soccer team, Allen oversaw the Spartans meteoric development from a first-year program in 2001 to the Mid-State Athletic Conference (MSAC) Championship in 2003 and 2004. Allen’s 2004 CCC squad was his most impressive, posting a 21-2-1 record, leading the nation in goals scored (112), and ranking second in goals allowed (12). That Spartan team boasted one All-American and four All-Region players, while Allen was honored with the MSAC Coach of the Year Award.

Allen, who currently lives in Auburn, is an Olympic development coach with the New York State West Youth Soccer Association and is the founder and director of the Cayuga Soccer Club, a youth development program.

As a player, Allen was a player-coach for Epsom Salts of a semiprofessional London League. He led the Salts in scoring in three straight seasons, while helping his side to the Division 2 championship in 1993 and the Division 1 title in 1994.

A 1989 graduate of Ithaca College, Allen holds a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications management. He holds U.S. Soccer Federation B license.

Assistant Coach Keith Perrigo

 

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