Northwest Missouri State Athletics

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•  Named head coach prior to the 2003 season (15 seasons)
•  89 career victories at Northwest
•  57 All-MIAA performers
•  Former NSCAA All-American for Mercyhurst College in Pennsylvania
•  Previously coached at Lock Haven University and the University of Toledo
 
AT NORTHWEST
Tracy Hoza has been the head coach of Northwest Missouri State's soccer program since 2003.

The Bearcats won a program-record 11 games in 2009 and placed fifth in the MIAA standings, the team's best finish since 2001. That performance followed a 10-win season in 2008 and a nine-win mark in 2006. The three best records in the program's history came in a four-year span (2008, 2009, 2011).
 
The 2012 season saw six Bearcats earn All-MIAA honors. Kira Lazenby was the program’s first MIAA Goalkeeper of the Year in 2009. Lazenby went on to sign a professional contract with the Santa Clarita Blue Head of the USL’s W-League in the spring of 2010.

Northwest garnered its first MIAA Freshman of the Year in 2016 as Izzy Romano received the honor. Romano was named second team All-MIAA with four goals and six assists.
 
Hoza is the second coach in program history, the longest tenured and holds the most wins at Northwest with 89 wins.
 
PRIOR TO NORTHWEST
Hoza arrived in Maryville from Toledo University in Ohio where she served as an assistant at the Division I program for two seasons.
 
Prior to Toledo, Hoza was the assistant coach at Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania where she helped lead the Lady Eagles to a 32-6-3 mark in two seasons. Lock Haven won two PSAC championships, advanced to the NCAA Division II Sweet 16 in 1999 and to the Elite Eight in 2000 with Hoza on board.
 
Hoza was a four-year letter-winner at Mercyhurst College in Pennsylvania and was a two-time NSCAA All-American for the Lakers in 1994 and 1995. She was also a three-time all-region honoree and captained the Lakers' 1994 NCAA Division II Final Four team. Before that, Hoza played for the Irish junior and senior national teams from 1987-91. She was inducted into Mercyhurst's athletics Hall of Fame in 2015.
 
A native of Limerick, Ireland, she earned her undergraduate degree from Mercyhurst in sports medicine and received her master's degree in liberal arts from Lock Haven. Hoza and her husband, Matt, have one daughter, Cora, and reside in Maryville.