Eric Belcher began as the Head Women’s Soccer Coach at Eastern New Mexico University July 2022. He is going into his 12th year as a head coach at the collegiate level.

During the 2023 season, the Greyhounds won its in-state rivalry game with New Mexico Highlands (2-1, Sept. 6), while forcing a draw with Fort Lewis and West Texas A&M for the first since 2017 against both of those programs. Under Belcher, six individuals scored their first career goal. Samantha Jeffries and Sofia Trejo both earned recognition as LSC Players of the Week (Sept. 5). Belcher oversaw Jeffries to an LSC All-Academic nod for the second time, while six Greyhounds earned CSC Academic All-District recognition (Abbie Dickens, Emma Hafenbrak, Haley Huff, Jeffries, Sarah Tate, Sierra Villanueva).

In their first season at Eastern, Belcher guided the Greyhounds to a record of 5-10-2 finishing in 9th place in the conference standings. Belcher oversaw the development of Samantha Jeffries, who finished at the top of many goalkeeping statistics in the Lone Star Conference. Belcher guided Jeffries to an LSC All-Academic nod for Jeffries, along with CSC Academic All-District recognition for Jeffries, Sierra Villanueva, Haley Huff, and Sofia Trejo.

The Edgewood, Maryland native joins the Greyhounds after leading Ohio Valley University (NAIA) in Vienna, West Virginia to a 2021 River States Conference title and an appearance in the NAIA national tournament.

His squad at OVU went 13-2-1 and clinched the RSC tournament with wins over Point Park and Rio Grande.

Belcher was recognized as the league’s conference coach of the year and his program garnered 16 different postseason accolades, including two first-team all-conference awardees and seven all-academic honorees on top of the league’s newcomer and defensive player of the year acknowledgments.

He spent five years at Glenville State (NCAA DII) in Glenville, West Virginia as the first head women’s soccer coach in program history where he oversaw the transition from a club to becoming a member of the NCAA. At the institution, he coached 11 Mountain East Conference Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll recipients.

At Cecil College (NJCAA) in North East, Maryland, he coached both the men’s (2012-15 head, 2009-12 assistant) and women’s (2011-15 head) programs.

Other stops for Belcher include helping with the Delaware Olympic Development Program, assisting at Salem University, serving as the head coach for Empire Futbol Club (Bridgeport, WV), and helping at soccer camps at Texas A&M (College Station, Texas).

Belcher played collegiate soccer at Alderson Broaddus in Philippi, West Virginia where he got a degree in communications in 2008.