Alyssa Whitehead was named as an assistant coach for the George Mason women’s soccer program in April 2022. Whitehead will be entering her second season with the Patriots in the 2023 season.
Whitehead previously held the role of head coach (2021-22) of the women's soccer program at Milligan University. Prior to her stint at Milligan, the goalkeeper held assistant coach positions at Florida International (2019-2020), UC Davis (2018-19), and Samford (2015-18). Whitehead was also heavily involved with the Region III team of the U.S. Olympic Development Program and the Birmingham United Soccer Association.
Currently, Whitehead continues to work with the Jamaican Football Federation as a staff member and goalkeeper coach for both the full and youth women's teams as well as a an ECNL goalkeeper coach for the FC Alliance Soccer Club.
Whitehead had a decorated college career at Samford University from 2008-to-2011, including several conference player of the week and player of the month recognitions. In 2009, Whitehead was first in the nation in goals-against average (0.31) and third in the nation in save percentage (0.91) for Division I athletics.
Along with several all-conference awards, Alyssa lifted her team to the 2011 Southern Conference Championships, winning both the regular season title and the championship title. The goalkeeper's historic career at Samford continued in 2018 when she was named a Hall of Fame Inductee, the first soccer player in school history to be named with this honor. Whitehead earned her spot in the Samford Athletics Hall of Fame after claiming her reign on all of the school's goalkeeping records.
Whitehead boasts a spectacular resume at the semi-professional and professional level. In her semi-professional career, Whitehead played for the Charlotte Lady Eagles in the W-League from 2009-11, tallying several postseason accolades.
Professionally, Whitehead had a distinguished career with two premier teams, spending two years at Umea Sodra FF and one year at Mallbacken IF. Alyssa also rostered for Camp and Qualifier Matches in Texas in 2020 with the Jamaican Women's National Olympic Soccer Team.
The Jamaican native led Samford to winning several accolades in her coaching career. In all three years of her tenure, the Bulldogs won the Southern Conference Regular Season Champion title as well as the conference tournament championship title in 2016. In Whitehead's one-year stint at UC Davis, the goalkeeper coach helped to lead the team to a fourth-place conference finish, a best in program history.
