Jeff Halsema Position: Head Coach (3rd Season) Alma Mater: Dominican University (2003)

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Jeff Halsema enters his third season as the head coach of the Dominican University women's soccer program. In just two seasons, Halsema has posted a career mark of 20-15-3 despite inheriting a program that had not a winning season since joining the NCAA in 2000 and had only had three winning seasons since the program's inception in 1997. In 2006, the Stars posted a 12-5-2 overall record, ranking second in the program's history with a .684 winning percentage.

In 2005, Halsema's first season as the Stars' head coach, he guided Dominican to the Lake Michigan Conference Tournament Championship game after posting a 7-5-1 record over the team's final 13 games, including a pair of victories in the conference tournament over Marian College 3-2 and Edgewood College, the top-seed in the tournament, 2-1 on the road.

In two seasons, Halsema has coached ten all-conference and all-conference honorable mention athletes, one conference player of the year, one conference rookie of the year and one D3Kicks.com all-region athlete. An accomplished recruiter, Halsema has grown the program's roster size from 14 at the start of the 2004 season to 22 at the start of the 2007 preseason.

Halsema holds a USSF National `D' License and received a NSCAA National Diploma. At the club level, Halsema is the high school coordinator for the ALITHSA Arsenal Soccer Club and serves as the club's U17 Girls and U17 Boys head coach.

A 2002 graduate of Dominican University, Halsema enjoyed great success as a student-athlete, including being named the 2002 Dominican University Student-Athlete of the Year as well as the 2002 Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference (NIIC) Player of the Year in men's soccer. During his four seasons as a member of the men's soccer program, the Stars compiled a 71-15-7 record, including a trip to the NAIA National Tournament in 1999 and a trip to the NCAA Division III National Tournament in 2002.

Upon graduation from the university, Halsema served as an assistant for the men's soccer team from 2003-2004, during which time the Stars received back-to-back bids to the NCAA Division III National Tournament.