Two-time Division I Conference Coach of the Year and NCAA Tournament head coach Pete Cuadrado has been selected as the first women’s soccer head coach at Tarleton State University, announced Friday by Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Lonn Reisman.
Tarleton is set to add women’s soccer in the fall of 2022 and will compete in the Western Athletic Conference. Cuadrado will spend the next year recruiting and putting together a roster and coaching staff before the inaugural Tarleton women’s soccer season in 2022.
Cuadrado spent the last nine seasons as the head women’s soccer coach at the University of Wyoming, where he’s the school’s alltime winningest coach. Cuadrado has been a head coach for the last 18 seasons and a Division I head soccer coach for the last 17 seasons between Wyoming and North Dakota State.
Cuadrado has established success in helping build two separate Division I teams into championship programs, posting a career 168-131-42 record as a head coach. At Wyoming, Cuadrado helped the Cowgirls win the Mountain West Championship in 2018, the first championship in program history. Cuadrado is the only soccer coach in Wyoming history with multiple 10-win seasons, which he has done four times in nine seasons. Cuadrado was also voted Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year in 2014 after leading the Cowgirls to an 8-3 league record.
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