The 2023 season will be Brooke Lincoln's fifth at Azusa Pacific. She was named the fifth head coach in Azusa Pacific women's soccer program history in January of 2018.

Since Lincoln’s arrival, the program has posted a 35-25-9 record, finishing 4th in the PacWest standings for the 2022 and 2021 season. In 2022, the Cougars went 9-4-4, posting a 6-2-2 conference record, and was receiving votes for the Top-25 National poll for the second consecutive year.

In 2021, Lincoln led the Cougars to an 11-5-1 record, including a 6-3-1 conference mark. At the conclusion of the season, the Cougars ranked eighth in the regional rankings and also received votes for the Top-25 National poll for their efforts throughout the season. 

In 2019, the Cougars finished 9-7-2 overall, with a 5-5-1 record in PacWest play that placed them sixth in the final conference standings. On Nov. 5, Lincoln and her team upset rival Biola by a 2-1 score. Biola had entered the match as the first place team in the conference with an 11-game unbeaten streak, but a tough and gritty performance lifted the Cougars to the big win in front of their home fans.

In 2018, which was Lincoln’s first season at the helm of the program, Azusa Pacific went 6-9-2 overall. While the Cougars struggled to find their rhythm at the beginning of the season, Lincoln’s system began to blossom and come to fruition in conference play, as the squad went 6-3-2 against PacWest competition to close the season out.

Through her first two seasons, Lincoln has coached six All-PacWest performers. Off the pitch, her teams have also excelled in the classroom, as she had 11 Academic All-PacWest honorees from her squad in 2018, and saw that number nearly double in 2019 with 21 members of her program earning the distinction. For the 2019-20 school year, the Cougars posted a team GPA of 3.61.

Lincoln has served as the head coach at Asbury University (Ky.) for the past five seasons. During her tenure with the Eagles she has tallied a 51-32-15 overall record. She had a decorated tenure at the NAIA school. She won three regular season River State Conference titles (formerly the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference), two league tournament titles which earned two berths into the national tournament. Lincoln was named the conference Coach of the Year on two occasions. In addition, she coached three Conference Players of the Year and 17 all-conference players.

Lincoln went to Asbury after serving as a graduate assistant at Belhaven University in Jackson, Miss. During the 2012 season Lincoln helped Belhaven reach the Southern States Athletic Conference Tournament for the first time in its third season in the league. The Blazers finished eighth in the  conference that had the top seed in the NAIA National Tournament. During Lincoln's two years with the Blazers, she handled recruiting in the south region as well as in the state of Mississippi. Although a graduate assistant, Lincoln was the only assistant coach on staff and often ran training sessions. She was also charged with coordinating summer camps, bringing in more than 400 campers during the course of the summer as well as 10 teams.

Prior to joining the staff at Belhaven, Lincoln was the head girls' soccer coach at Terry High School in Terry, Miss., for two years. At Terry, Lincoln guided the squad to the state Final Four for the first time in school history and garnered a ranking as high as No. 6, finishing the year at No. 12.

She earned her Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education from Mississippi College. Lincoln has a Master's Degree in Sports Administration from Belhaven University.

LINCOLN'S COACHING CAREER AT AZUSA PACIFIC

Year

Overall Record

Conference Record

2018

6-9-2 (0.400) 

6-3-2 (6th)

2019

9-7-2 (0.563)

5-5-1 (5th)

2020*   

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2021    

11-5-1 (.676)

6-3-1 (.650)

2022

9-4-4 (.529)

6-2-2 (.600)

Totals

35-25-9 (.507)

23-13-6 (.548)

* - No season due to COVID-19