Coaches

Alan Berrios

Head Coach

alan.berrios@nau.edu

928-523-2021

The latest on everything
College Soccer

Illustration of a rocket coming out of a mobile phone

Get our 5-minute, daily newsletter on what matters in college soccer.

Alan Berrios was officially named the head coach of the NAU Women's Soccer team in December of 2022.

Berrios led the Jacks to a 11-6-3 record in his first official season as head coach of the Lumberjacks in the 2023 campaign. Berrios's squad made it to their second-consecutive Big Sky Tournament championship while seven players were name to the all-conference team, with two coming with first-team honors and five second-team honors. Four players earned all-tournament team honors after the Jacks 2023 championship run. In Berrios' first season at the helm, the Lumberjacks brought in their first Power-5 victory since 2001 with a 3-2 win over the Oregon Ducks in Flagstaff. 

As interim head coach in 2022, taking over for his first game as interim head coach on Sept. 23 at LMU, just two games ahead of conference play. After dropping their first Big Sky matchup to Weber State, the Jacks closed out the regular season on a seven-game win streak to claim the regular season championship with a 3-0 victory to Portland State in Flagstaff. NAU then made history in the Big Sky tournament with back-to-back penalty kick victories against Weber State and Idaho to be crowned Big Sky tournament champions, marking the first time in program history that the team won both the regular season and tournament championships in one season. NAU made their return to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2014, taking on the No. 1 UCLA Bruins in Los Angeles, before UCLA went on to be crowned national champions. Berrios was named the Big Sky Conference Head Soccer Coach of the Year, as voted on by league coaches.

Berrios returned to NAU after spending the 2020 season at Southeastern University in Lakeland, FL. He guided the fire to a 17-2-1 record. The fire won the Sun Conference regular season title and the Sun Conference tournament title beating the #1 team in the country twice and earning an automatic birth to the NAIA National Championships. The fire were ranked nationally in the top 10 all year long and went into the national tournament as the # 2 team in the country. He led the fire to the NAIA National quarter-finals.

Prior to SEU, Berrios helped guide the Lumberjacks to an 8-8-3 record, and qualified for postseason play losing to eventual champion Northern Colorado in the Big Sky Conference tournament quarterfinal. He spent the previous season with NCAA Division II Dixie State University, as an assistant coach. During his time at DSU, he helped guide the program to the RMAC Conference Tournament making it to the conference semi-final before bowing out to conference tournament champions Colorado School of Mines. During his time at DSU, he was in charge of recruiting and the defensive back line.

Berrios spent four seasons as the women’s soccer head coach at Arizona Christian University, and was simultaneously the men’s coach for half of that time. He is the winningest coach in the school’s 10-year NAIA history, turning around a program that had only won 14 Golden State Athletic Conference games in its previous six years, to qualifying for the GSAC Tournament for the first time in his third season, and returned in 2018. On the men’s side, the Firestorm were tops in the GSAC in team GPA in 2015, and seven players earned Daktronics Scholar-Athlete recognition.

Prior to his time at ACU, Berrios spent four years as an assistant coach for the University of Tampa women’s soccer team. During his tenure at UT, the NCAA Division II Spartans produced a record of 59-18-12. In 2011, the Spartans won the Sunshine State Conference Tournament Championship and NCAA Regional Championship before bowing out in the NCAA Elite Eight to Armstrong Atlantic.

Tampa won their third straight Sunshine State Conference Tournament Championship in 2012 before losing to the eventual national champion West Florida in the NCAA Sweet 16. In 2013, the Spartans were nationally ranked the entire season while rising to as high as number four in the nation in consecutive weeks. After winning 10 straight matches to open the season, Berrios helped the Spartans to five SSC victories as they advanced to the semifinals of the NCAA South Regional.

Before coaching at Tampa, Berrios served as the Director of Soccer Operations for the University of South Florida women’s team for one year. During his only season with the NCAA Division I Bulls, USF highlighted their season with wins over Georgetown and Marquette in the Big East tournament. South Florida advanced to their first ever NCAA Tournament in 2010 beating Auburn before falling to Florida State in the second round.

In addition to his 12 year collegiate career, he has a 16 year club coaching career having coached at several clubs both in the east and west coast. On the club circuit in Florida, Berrios coached at Brandon FC/West Florida Flames where he was a Head Coach and Staff Coach from 2002–13. He also spent time with Tampa Bay United from 2013-14. In Arizona he spent 2014-16 with the CCV Stars Soccer Club and 2016-18 with RSL-AZ/Utah Royals, formerly Sereno Soccer Club.  

He and his wife Suzi have four adult children. All live in the Tampa Bay Area.

Berrios graduated from Southern New Hampshire University with a BA in General Studies.

#1 College Soccer Newsletter

Join thousands of current readers and get our 5-minute, daily newsletter on what matters in college soccer.

Illustration of a rocket coming out of a mobile phone