Greg Mitchell
Assistant Coach
Fourth Season
Davis & Elkins, 1995

    Greg Mitchell is entering his fourth campaign on the Penguins soccer staff as an assistant coach for Anthony James.
    Mitchell, who works closely with the YSU goalkeepers, also serves as the athletic department’s youth camp coordinator.
In 2006, Mitchell helped develop goalkeeper Caitlin Bodzioney into a skilled net minder in her freshman year. Bodzioney was ranked 14th in the nation with an average of 7.82 saves per game. Bodzioney’s 1.88 goals-against average also broke the single-season school record of 1.89 previously established by Jessica Yarter in 2005.
In 2005, Mitchell worked to turn Jessica Yarter from a forward into one of the most talented goalies in not only the Horizon League, but school history. Yarter ranked second in the league in saves per game (6.25) and was in the top five in save percentage (76.9). The Penguins posted two shutouts for the year, just the second time that has occurred since 2000.
Before coming to YSU prior to the 2004 campaign, he spent four seasons as head women’s soccer coach at Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, W.Va.
    In 2003, Mitchell guided the Senators to an 8-13 overall record and a runner-up finish at the 2003 WVIAC Tournament.
    In 2002, Mitchell led Davis & Elkins to an 8-10 overall mark and a 5-4 record in the WVIAC and guided the Senators to its first postseason win with a 1-0 victory over the University of Charleston in the WVIAC quarterfinals. In 2000, Mitchell had the task of starting the Senators program from scratch.
    Prior to accepting the women’s soccer head coaching position at Davis & Elkins, Mitchell spent one season as an assistant coach for the Davis & Elkins men’s soccer team.
Mitchell graduated cum laude from Davis & Elkins in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree in economics/business administration. He earned a Master’s Degree from West Virginia University in Athletic Coaching Education in May 2004.
    In soccer circles, he has a National Soccer Coaches Association of America National Diploma, a United States Soccer Federation National “C” License and a NSCAA National Goalkeeping Diploma Mitchell also hold his Advanced Goalkeeping and his Advanced National Diploma.
    Greg and his wife Niquita have a daughter, Logan, and a son, Landon.