Ashley Phillips enters her ninth season as the head coach of the Northeastern women’s soccer team during 2024, having been named the program’s fourth head coach on March 2, 2016. She previously served as the Huskies’ assistant coach from 2010 to 2015, earning promotion to associate head coach in 2015 and interim head coach in 2016.

In Phillips coaching career with the Huskies, she became the first head coach during CAA history to win the conference’s regular season and postseason championships during their first season as head coach in 2016. She has added 46 All-Conference award mentions, including Alexis Legowski, who earned All-CAA honors in each of her five seasons, and Julianne Ross, who earned four All-CAA First Team awards. Phillips has coached Northeastern to 13 straight CAA Tournaments which is the longest active streak in the conference. She has also guided Northeastern’s attack to the single-season program record for goals scored in 2017 recording a total of 41 goals and helped Northeastern secure the No. 3 ranking in the United Soccer Coaches (formerly NSCAA) Mid-Atlantic Regional Poll upon entering the 2016 NCAA tournament. 

Phillips' playing career first started when she won the 2003 Gatorade Massachusetts Player of the Year during her senior season in high school. She then went on to play in college at Clemson University where she was the starting goalkeeper from 2004 to 2007. During her time at Clemson, Phillips had won All-ACC First Team in 2017, three-time United Soccer Coaches All-Southeast Region Honoree, and All-American Third Team in 2006. She reached the NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals during her junior year and currently holds the program's career saves record at 326 saves making her single-season best 119 saves. Ashley Phillips started first playing professional soccer with the Boston Renegades from 2002 to 2006 and then for the Atlanta Silverbacks in 2008 where she competed in the USL W-League going undefeated as the starting goalkeeper for Atlanta. She then played one season for the Boston Aztecs in 2009 and then finished off her professional soccer career playing with the Boston Breakers until 2013. 

NORTHEASTERN PLAYER ACCOLADES UNDER PHILLIPS

As of April, 2024

• NCAA Division I Women's All-East Region Second Team (5): ... 2022: Vivian Akyirem, Alexis Legowski ... 2020: Chelsea Domond, Alexis Legowski ... 2018: Valentina Soares Gache.

• NCAA Division I Women's All-East Region Third Team (2): ... 2019: Chelsea Domond, Julianne Ross.

• NSCAA All-Region First Team (2): ... 2017: Hannah Lopiccolo, Kayla Cappuzzo.

• NSCAA All-Region Second Team (1): ... 2016: Hannah Lopiccolo.

• NSCAA All-Region Third Team (1): ... 2016: Kayla Cappuzzo.

• ECAC First Team All-Star (2): ... 2016: Hannah Rosenblatt 2022: Vivian Akyirem

• ECAC Second Team All-Star (1): ... 2022: Jessie Hunt 2023: Jessie Hunt

• All-CAA First Team (17): ...2023: Jessie Hunt, Vivian Akyirem, Alexis Legowski 2022: Vivian Akyirem, Jessie Hunt 2021: Julianne Ross. 2020: Chelsea Domond, Alexis Legowski, Mikenna McManus. 2019: Julianne Ross ... 2018: Julianne Ross, Nathalie Nidetch, Valentina Soares Gache. 2017: Hannah Lopiccolo, Kayla Cappuzzo, Julianne Ross. 2016: Hannah Lopiccolo, Kayla Cappuzzo, Mackenzie Dowd, Hannah Rosenblatt.

• All-CAA Second Team (14): ... 2022: Alexis Legowski 2021: Alexis Legowski, Mikenna McManus. 2020: Porter Dooley, Allie Vazquez. 2019: Chelsea Domond, Kerri Zerfoss, Eve Goulet. 2018: Mikenna McManus, Hannah Rosenblatt. ... 2017: Eve Goulet, Hannah Rosenblatt. 2016: Carina Deandreis, Nathalie Nidetch.

• All-CAA Third Team (6): ... 2022: Holland Stam. 2019: Olivia Ware, Mikenna McManus. 2018: Chelsea Domond. 2017: Nathalie Nidetch, Valentina Soares Gache. 

• CAA All-Rookie Team (9): ...2023: Maddie Aughe 2022: Vivian Akyirem 2021: Faith Rosenblatt. 2020: Allie Vazquez. 2019: Alexis Legowski. 2019: Grace Moore. 2017: Julianne Ross, Chelsea Domond. 2016: Kerri Zerfoss.

• CAA Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year (1): ... 2016-17: Mackenzie Dowd.

• CAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player (1): ... 2016: Hannah Rosenblatt.

• NCAA Division I Women's Scholar All-East Region Third Team (1): ... 2018: Hannah Rosenblatt.

• NEWISA All-New England First Team (3): ... 2019: Julianne Ross. 2017: Hannah Lopiccolo, Kayla Cappuzzo.

• NEWISA All-New England Second Team (8): 2022: Jessie Hunt, Alexis Legowski 2022: Vivian Akyirm, Alexis Legowski, Holland Stam ... 2021: Julianne Ross, Mikenna McManus, Alexis Legowski ... 2019: Kerri Zerfoss. 2017: Julianne Ross.

• NEWISA All-New England Third Team (1): ... 2019: Chelsea Domond.

HEAD COACHING RECORD

Season

School

Overall

Pct.

Conf.

Pct.

Regular

Season

Conference

Tournament

Postseason

Tournament

2016

Northeastern

14-7-1

.659

7-2-0

.778

1st

CAA Champions

NCAA Tournament 1st Rd.

2017

Northeastern

13-6-3

.659

5-1-3

.722

3rd

CAA Final

--

2018

Northeastern

10-9-1

.525

7-2-0

.778

2nd

CAA Semifinals

--

2019

Northeastern 

8-10-1

.447

5-3-1

.611

5th   

CAA Quarterfinals

--

2020-21

Northeastern

5-5-1

.500

3-1-0

.750

T-3rd

CAA Semfinals

--

2021

Northeastern

9-9-1

.500

5-4-0

.556

4th

CAA Final

--

2022

Northeastern

10-6-4

.600

5-2-2

.667

3rd

CAA Final

--

2023

Northeastern

8-4-6

.611

6-2-4

.667

4th

CAA Quarterfinals

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8 seasons

Northeastern

77-56-18

.570

43-17-10

.688

8 seasons

Career

77-56-18

.570

43-17-10

.688