Villanova Men's Soccer Program and Camps

Brent Jacquette

Head Coach, Widener Men's Soccer

Brent Jacquette has been named the ninth head coach in the program’s history.
 
Jacquette already has played a key role with the program in preparing and implementing practices, instituting goal setting and assisting in personnel issues. His help this season led to Widener (9-9-3, 3-3 CC) upsetting top-seeded Lebanon Valley in the Commonwealth Conference semifinals and playing in the ECAC Tournament for the fourth time in school history.
 
The Wallingford, PA native arrived at Widener after serving in 2005 as the boys’ JV coach and assistant varsity coach at Strath Haven High School.  He also competed in the United Soccer Leagues with the Pittsburgh Riverhounds in 2003 and the Minnesota Thunder in 2004.
 
Jacquette also enjoyed a successful collegiate playing career, being named All-America and two-time All-Big Ten Conference defender at Penn State.  He was tabbed a Collegiate MVP by Soccer America in 2002 and was selected to particiate in the Major League Soccer combine in 2003.

He was a four-year starter and also a captain, graduating in fewer than four years with a BA in Telecommunications in December 2002. Jacquette’s wealth of experience also includes training with FC St. Pauli in Germany.
 
He founded Get Ahead Soccer, which developed youth soccer programs, camps and clinics, and organized the staff to conduct training sessions.  Jacquette also was a co-director of sports operations at Tri State Sports, helping develop a marketing plan for youth leagues and overseeing scheduling, staffing and billing of the complex. He also worked as a region manager at Time Warner, overseeing magazine sales in five states.