Adria Borras Budesca was named the fourth women’s head soccer coach at Hawai‘i Pacific University on May 1, 2020.

Borras has served as an assistant coach for the Sharks for six seasons and was named the interim head coach in January.

In addition to his work with HPU, Borras has been the Hawai‘i State coach for the Olympic Development Program, founded and established the Ohana Goalkeeper Academy and helped establish and led FC Barcelona Soccer Camps in Hawai‘i. He holds a USSF Class C Coaching License.

Borras came to HPU as a graduate assistant coach in August 2014 working with the women’s program under Brewer. He became an assistant following his graduation in 2016 and started working with both the men’s and women’s programs in 2017.

Originally from Tarragona, a city near Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain, Adria started his coaching career with TetraBrazil in 2009 as a as a Club Trainer. TetraBrazil is a company that manages summer soccer camps, and while working there, Borras gained a wide range of experience coaching from boys and girls (U5 to U17) in 30 different states. Before coming to HPU, he served as regional coordinator of the Chicago Region.

Borras earned a master’s degree with honors in marketing and international business from HPU in 2016. He holds two bachelors’ degrees including a bachelor of science with honors in business management administration from Missouri Valley College in 2011. He also earned a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Universitat Rovira I Virgili in Tarragona in 2007, and added postgraduate work from there in 2008 and 2009.

He stepped away from his job as an engineer in 2009 to study in the United States. He earned an athletic scholarship to Missouri Valley. In his two seasons as a goalkeeper, he led the Vikings to the NAIA national tournament, earning All-America, Academic Scholar-Athlete, All-Region and All-Heart of America Athletic Conference first team.

Borras started his soccer career at Gimnastic Tarragona, the main soccer club in his hometown near Barcelona. He started playing in the youth divisions until he progressed enough to become a professional player for the first team at age 18. For five years, he played within the second and third divisions within Spain for Gimnastic Tarragona. During that time, Borras had the opportunity to play with and against many of today’s elite international players.

Borras is married to wife Amy and lives in the Makiki neighborhood in Honolulu.