Erald Hysi is in his second season as an assistant women’s soccer coach at Babson College in 2023. He was on board in 2022 when the Beavers finished 14-4-1 and posted their best winning percentage (.763) in nearly three decades.

Hysi joined the Beavers’ coaching staff after spending the 2021 campaign as an assistant coach at Regis College in Weston. The Pride went 8-6-2 and posted five shutouts while conceding one goal or fewer in 11 of 16 matches.

Hysi, who has served as the director of goalkeeping of the New England Surf Soccer Club since December 2020, spent the fall of 2021 as a goalkeeper coach at the Roxbury Latin School. He was the director of goalkeeping at the Abbey Villa Soccer Club in Hopkinton, Mass., during the fall of 2020 after starting his club coaching career with Global Premier Soccer (GPS) in September 2018.

A native of Albania, Hysi played professional soccer in his native country for nearly a decade beginning in 2008. He earned his bachelor of arts degree from Ismail Qemali University in Vlore, Albania, in 2012.