ASSISTANT COACHES
ANN
TIM
Assistant Coach • Fifth Year WILLIAM & MARY ‘97
Assistant Coach • Third Year PENN STATE ALTOONA ‘06
COOK
Ann Cook is entering her sixth season with the Nittany Lions after helping guide them to their 13th-straight Big Ten title. This will also be the fourth season Cook will be coaching under former teammate and friend Erica Walsh. The two combined for many wins on the field at William & Mary and have already shown their prowess on the sidelines together as they led the squad to four consecutive Big Ten titles. For the fourth consecutive year, Cook traveled to Nicaragua with an organization called Soccer Without Borders, bringing along a few Nittany Lions in the process to help out. The organization focuses on using soccer as a tool for youth development around the world. The Nittany Lion players helped collect numerous pairs of shoes prior to Cook’s departure and accounted for about 50 young girls in Nicaragua getting new shoes and a new appreciation for soccer. Prior to PSU, Cook was an assistant coach at Nebraska, for two seasons. Cook was responsible for numerous tasks while at Nebraska including individual and team training, recruiting, video analysis and scheduling. She also worked closely as the staff’s liaison to the Huskers’ athletic support staff. During her tenure at Missouri State from 2004-05, she handled training, recruiting and team travel duties as well as supervising the strength and conditioning program. The head coach at Drury University from 19992000, her squad ranked No. 5 in the NCAA Division-II poll among new programs in 1999. A three-time All-American, Cook played for William & Mary from 1993-97, medically redshirting during the 1996 campaign. In the mix for the Hermann Trophy as well as the M.A.C. Player of the Year Award in both 1995 and 1997, she was the 1997 CAA Conference Player of the Year and CAA Conference Tournament MVP. The Tribe made appearances in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals two of Cook’s four seasons, grabbing a bid for the Tournament each year and concluding the seasons ranked in the top five. Active with the U.S. National Team programs, she was a member of the U.S. Under-20 team from 1994-95 and played with the full national team in 1998. Professionally, Cook was a fourth-round draft pick (25th overall in the global draft) by the Bay Area CyberRays in 2000. A member of the team that won the WUSA’s inaugural season championship in 2001, she was traded in December of that year to the Washington Freedom, which eventually finished as the 2002 league runners-up. Cook picked up coaching full time when the WUSA folded after the 2003 season. As a member of the W-League’s Chicago Cobras from 1998-2000, she was the championship MVP in 2000 after helping the team to a league championship. In 1999, her team finished as the league runners-up.
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PENN STATE 2012 • WOMEN’S SOCCER
WASSELL
Tim Wassell returns Penn State for his third season season after a successful stint at the Altoona campus from 2007-09. Over the past three seasons, Wassell led the women’s program there to a 48-11-5 overall record, while taking home NSCAA Great Lakes Coach of the Year honors in 2008. He was also named the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Coach of the Year in 2007 and 2008. While with the Nittany Lions in Altoona, Wassell’s defense oriented teams posted 39 shutouts in 64 games as the squad set new marks for wins in every year of his tenure with 13, 17, and 18, respectively. During the 2008 campaign, his Altoona team posted the third-best goals against average in Division III at 0.34. Eighteen Lions earned All-AMCC honors and 24 were named to the Academic All-AMCC team during the three-year era, which outscored opponents 172-40. Additionally, Wassell’s charges collected three NSCAA Great Lakes All-Region selections, including the only freshman on the first or second team in 2008. The team reached the 2008 NCAA Division III Tournament, falling 1-0 to Otterbein. During that season, PSU Altoona went without a loss in the regular season. Prior to taking over the reigns at Altoona, he served as the goalkeeping coach in 2006 for both the men’s and women’s teams. For the men’s squad at Altoona, the team posted the best goals against average in the conference and second best mark in shutouts. The team finished top 25 nationally in GAA with a 0.63 average. As a goalkeeper at PSU Altoona, Wassell was a two-time NSCAA MidAtlantic Region selection in 2004 and 2005 and a two-time All-AMCC First Team selection as well. He was named the 2005 PSU Altoona ScholarAthlete of the Year and was mentioned amongst the coaches of the AMCC as the Preseason Player of the Year in 2005. In both 2004 and 2005, Wassell led the AMCC in save percentage, shutouts and GAA, completing his twoyear tenure between the pipes with a school-record 0.71 GAA. A highlight to his success at PSU Altoona was a 641-minute shutout streak during the 2004 season, which ranks in the top 15 in Division III history. Wassell was an accomplished student with two Academic All-AMCC honors, a spot on the PSU Altoona Dean’s List every semester and a 3.72 cumulative grade point average. Prior to his time at Altoona, Wassell was a member of the East Stroudsburg squad from 2000-02, earning two Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championships with an NCAA Final Four appearance in 2000. Wassell, a Hollidaysburg, Pa. native, earned his bachelor’s degree in business at PSU Altoona. He also has gained NSCAA National and Goalkeeping Coaching Diplomas during the course of his coaching career.
17 STRAIGHT NCAA APPEARANCES 1995-2011