Assistant Coach                          David Carvalho (5th season)

High School:                               Moorestown          

College:                                      Eastern University (2005)

Major:                                         Elementary Education

Minor:                                         ESL (English as a Second Language)

David Carvalho (Da-veed Car-va-leo) returned to the Rutgers University-Camden coaching staff in 2022 after a decade pursuing other soccer opportunities.

An assistant coach with the Scarlet Raptors from 2010-2012, Carvalho helped lay the groundwork for the Rutgers-Camden team that reached the 2013 NCAA Division III championship game. During his time with the Scarlet Raptors, the team went 13-8-1 and won the ECAC Metro/Upstate championship in 2010 and captured back-to-back New Jersey Athletic Conference titles in 2011 and 2012, the first two NJAC titles in the program’s history. The 2011 team went 19-3-2 and advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight and the 2012 team reached the NCAA Second Round, falling on penalty kicks to close at 17-2-3.

A 2005 graduate of Eastern University, Carvalho was an Elementary Education major with a minor in English as a Second Language (ESL). He earned his graduate degree in Multicultural Education from Eastern in 2013.

Carvalho was a three-time all-conference soccer player at Eastern University, where he also earned All-Region honors as a junior. In 75 career games, he scored 25 goals and added 21 assists for 71 points. He also was a scholastic star at Moorestown High School, where he earned All-State honors and All-South Jersey First Team recognition as a senior, while also being listed among the New Jersey Top 50 players. He was an All-South Jersey Third Team player as a junior.

Carvalho started his soccer coaching career as an assistant for Eastern University’s women, where he served from 2005-2007 before taking the head coaching job as Penn State-Brandywine (2008-2010). He joined the Scarlet Raptors’ program during the fall semester of 2010, staying for three highly-successful seasons.

Carvalho continued his career as the head coach at Rosemont College from 2014-2019 before joining the Villanova University program as an assistant coach (2019-2021).

Carvalho has been employed for 14 years at the Mariana Bracetti Academy Charter School in Philadelphia, where he serves as the Dean of Students. He is a resident of Media, Pennsylvania.