USC Aiken women's soccer coach Sue Vodicka enters her 10thseason at the helm of the program. She has compiled a record of45-106-12 during that time.
In 2013, Vodicka guided the Pacers to an 8-8-2 mark with arelatively young squad. The team was 3-6-2 in the Peach BeltConference, but tied top-25 program Clayton State. She helped thePacers to the third-most wins in program history and thethird-longest winning streak since the sport started.
Vodicka coached all-conference performer Hannah Allison andall-distritct honoree Megan Smits during the 2013 campaign.Â
The 2012 Pacers finished the year with a 4-11-3 record overall.USC Aiken was 3-7-1 in Peach Belt Conference action in the 2012season. USC Aiken commenced Peach Belt Conference play aperfect 2-0 after wins over Georgia College (Sept. 15) and YoungHarris (Sept. 19) for the first time in program history
The 2011 edition of the Pacers went 4-12, while going 2-4 at thePacer Pit. The Pacers also earned a Peach Belt Conference victoryby defeating Georgia Southwestern 1-0 at home Oct. 8, 2011.
The 2010 USC Aiken women’s soccer team concluded its yearby producing a positive result in four of its final five games. ThePacers earned three wins in the final five games to end the yearwith a 5-11-2 (0-8-2 PBC) record overall.
The 2009 USC Aiken women's soccer team was honored as one of thetop 20 most improved NCAA Division II women's soccer team.
The rankings are done by calculating a team's improvement bycomparing its final 2009 rating to an adjusted 2008 rating. Ateam's rating roughly equates to net goals (goals scored minusgoals against).
The criteria allowed the Pacers to obtain a 1.34 rating to leavethem with the 15th-best improvement in all of Division II women'ssoccer. USC Aiken improved its win total by three games in2009.
The 2009 USC Aiken women's soccer campaign ended with the Pacersowning a 6-11 record overall. USC Aiken finished the season winningfour of its final five games. The Pacers concluded the 2009 PeachBelt Conference season with a 2-8 record.
In a season full of close contests for the Pacer women, USCAiken ended its 2009 Peach Belt Conference slate having been on thelosing side of three overtime games in PBC action. In total, USCAiken finished its 2009 season with nine one-goal losses.
The Pacers lost six of their eight games in PBC play by just onegoal.
USC Aiken's defensive unit had a tremendous season-endingstretch of not allowing a goal. The Pacer defense had not given upa goal in just over 501 minutes before surrendering the first goalof the match to GCSU in their season finale. The Pacers had playedthe entire 90 minutes of the previous four matches withoutsurrendering a goal.
In 2008, Vodicka guided the Pacers to a 3-15-2 record, whichincluded a 1-7-1 record in Peach Belt Conference games.
Vodicka engineered a remarkable turnaround in 2006, guiding hersquad to a fourth place finish in the Peach Belt Conference afterbeing predicted to place ninth. USC Aiken finished the season7-11-2, including a 4-4-1 mark in PBC play. The four conferencewins marked the combined total for the program’s previous sixseasons of league play.
The conference coaches took notice of the work Vodicka had doneand voted her the 2006 PBC Coach of the Year, the first USC Aikenwomen’s soccer coach to earn that award.
Vodicka was named the second head women’s soccer coach atUSC Aiken in the program’s history on July 20, 2005.
In her first season with the Pacers, Vodicka began laying thebuilding blocks for a successful program moving forward.
Hired late in the summer, Vodicka fielded a team that was shorton numbers, but not on excitement and hard work.
Vodicka came to USC Aiken with 11 years of NCAA Division Icoaching experience, including one season as the head coach atVirginia Commonwealth University. She served as an assistant at theCollege of William & Mary, Washington State and George MasonUniversity.
Prior to her arrival, USC Aiken head men’s soccer coachIke Ofoje had served as head coach of both the men’s andwomen’s teams since the Pacers began play in 1997.
As a student-athlete at George Mason, Vodicka was a member ofthree NCAA Tournament teams. The 1983 squad made it to the nationalchampionship game and her 1985 team claimed the NCAA NationalChampionship by beating North Carolina in the title match.
She earned a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in English from GMUin 1986 and a Virginia Secondary Teaching Certificate in 1992.
The George Mason graduate served as assistant coach at her almamater from 1999 to 2003. During her five seasons, the Patriots were49-48-7 overall but went 25-11-3 in Colonial Athletic Association(CAA) play. GMU tied for first place in the CAA in 2000 and 2001,and finished second in 2002. The team was the CAA Tournamentrunner-up in 2000 and 2002.
At GMU, Vodicka coached six NSCAA All-Region selections, 13All-CAA selections and 10 All-CAA Tournament selections. Moreimpressively, while overseeing the team’s academics for allfive seasons, 41 Patriot women’s soccer players received theCAA Commissioner’s Academic Award and the squad posted GeorgeMason’s highest team GPA in six of nine semesters.
Before accepting the position at her alma mater, Vodicka servedas head coach for one season at Virginia Commonwealth. The Ramsposted a 7-9-2 overall record and a 2-5-1 mark in the CAA. Whileshe spent just one season at the helm of the program, her impactwas strong. VCU earned the program’s first ever conferencewins over James Madison and American University, and they tied10th-ranked Virginia.
In addition, her squad produced two All-CAA selections. Vodickamade her collegiate head coaching debut after serving two seasonsas assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at WashingtonState.
In her first season in Pullman, Wash., the Cougars doubled theirwin total from the previous season. In two seasons combined,Vodicka coached four All-PAC-10 selections while nine Cougarsearned PAC-10 All-Academic honors.
Vodicka began her collegiate coaching career at the College ofWilliam & Mary where she served as assistant coach from 1993 to1995. During Vodicka’s three seasons at William & Mary,the Tribe made three NCAA Tournament appearances, posted a 43-16-2record and went unbeaten in the CAA at 15-0-1.
The team captured two CAA Championships and finished as therunner-up once. The 1994 squad went 17-4-0 (6-0-0 CAA) on its wayto winning the CAA Championship and making the NCAA’s Sweet16.
