A 2003 graduate of Dominican University, Jeff Halsema returned to Dominican University as an assistant women’s soccer coach in 2019.

Halsema enjoyed a stellar playing career with the men’s soccer program, garnering the University’s 2002 Student-Athlete of the Year Award and Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference (NIIC) Player of the Year honors. Upon his return to Dominican, Halsema served as both a head and assistant coach for more than a decade, including six seasons as the head women’s soccer coach and five seasons as a men’s soccer assistant coach. During his tenure with the men’s soccer team as both a player and a coach, the Stars amassed a 180-45-18 overall record with eight national tournament appearances, including an Elite Eight finish in 2003 and a Sweet 16 appearance in 2012. In 2011 and 2012, with Halsema responsible for the organization of the Stars’ back line, Dominican was dominant defensively, ranking in the top-35 nationally each season while posting a combined 0.68 goals against average. Additionally, the Stars produced two Northern Athletics Conference (NAC) Defensive Players of the Year in Kyle Boekeloo and Krzysztof Lagowski.

Prior to rejoining the men's soccer team in 2001, Halsema spent six seasons as Dominican's head women's soccer coach. Halsema posted a career mark of 71-43-6, going 51-14-2 in conference play, in leading the Stars to four appearances in the Northern Athletics Conference Tournament championship game. Throughout his tenure as the Stars' head women's soccer coach, Halsema served as the Northern Athletics Conference Women's Soccer Coaches Chair from 2007-2009 and then sat on the NSCAA Central

Region Ranking Committee. Despite inheriting a program that had not had a winning season since joining the NCAA in 2000 (and had only three winning seasons since the program's inception in 1997), Halsema recorded five winning seasons to go with a .617 career winning percentage with the women's soccer program. In his final season as head coach, Halsema guided the Stars back to the conference tournament championship game, falling to perennial NAC powerhouse, Aurora University 2-1. On the year, the Stars posted a program-best 15-5-1 overall record, going 10-1-1 in NAC regular season play. Under his guidance, Liz Phipps and Adrienne Ryba garnered NSCAA All-Region honors, the first time in program history a pair of Stars landed on the squad, while Phipps also earned NSCAA All-Region accolades in 2009. In his six seasons as the head coach, Halsema coached 32 all-conference selections including one conference player of the year, one conference rookie of the year, one D3Kicks.com all-region athlete and three NSCAA all-region athletes. Halsema has earned his Advanced National and Premier Diplomas through the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA).