Julia Bazi enters her third season as the head coach of the women's soccer team in 2023, and was named the 11th head coach in the history of the women's soccer program in August of 2020.

Bazi led the Peacocks into an unprecedented season during the 2020-21 campaign, as the team geared up for a spring season in which it faced harsh weather and an abbreviated season which saw the Peacocks play only four games. While Bazi's first season was not ideal, she made the most of it with a short-handed roster, playing many the majority of games with only a handfull of reserves. The highlight of the season came in the team's Senior Day match against Iona on April 2, which saw the Peacocks score a season-high 2 goals, leading to an overtime bout with the Gaels. While Saint Peter's ultimately dropped the match, it showed the potential that Bazi and the team has for future seasons. Under Bazi's leadership, Saint Peter's placed 10 players to the 2020-21 MAAC Women's Soccer All-Academic Team.

Bazi, a former Olympian and two-time FIFA World Cup competitor with nine years of collegiate coaching experience – including a successful run over the past three years as head coach at the Fashion Institute of Technology – returns to Jersey City for her second stint with the program after originally spending two seasons as an assistant coach.

Bazi's arrival follows an immensely successful tenure over three seasons at FIT, a National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division III program in Manhattan that she turned from the get-go. In her first season (2017), Bazi led the Tigers to their winningest season in school history en route to being named the NJCAA Region XV Coach of the Year, the first such honoree for the program.

With FIT, Bazi led all aspects of the program, including recruiting, game day event operations, practice planning, budget management and travel while assisting with academic advising. Additional accolades included her leading the team to the conference finals in her first two seasons, marking the Tigers' first conference championship game appearances in nearly a decade. Other program firsts that Bavi helped produce included the school's first All-American and first conference Player of the Year.

Bazi has also enjoyed prior collegiate stints as an assistant at a number of NCAA Division I and II institutions. Before FIT, she helped Fairleigh Dickinson (Northeast Conference) win its second straight NEC Regular Season Title, first NEC Tournament Title and earn that program's first appearance in the NCAA Tournament during her three seasons with the Knights (2014-16). She initially made her first collegiate stop in the Garden State after spending 2012-13 as an assistant at Saint Peter's, where she was in charge of organizing and conducting all training sessions and managing the team's travel plans and recruiting efforts. 

Prior to Saint Peter's, Bazi spent the 2010-12 seasons at five-time NCAA Division II national champion Franklin Pierce University as an assistant coach. While at FPU, she broke down game film, coordinated team budget and travel plans, oversaw recruiting efforts (both nationally and internationally) and developed personalized gym and one-on-one conditioning programs. 

Before starting to coach in the collegiate circuit, Bazi served as a coach and recruiter for Upper 90, where she educated potential talent on the U.S. college experience and opportunities and conduct highlight strengths and weaknesses for potential players. She also was an assistant coach for the New York Red Bulls Youth Academy. 

As a college player, Bazi won four conference championships and two national titles at Martin Methodist College (Tenn.), where she was a team captain and earned all-conference and All-America honors. She has been inducted into the Martin Methodist and Westfield Sports High Hall of Fames. Before college, she became the youngest player to represent the Australian National Team in the World Cup in 2000 and competed in the 2004 World Cup and Summer Olympics. She also played professionally after college in Iceland, Canada, Australia and the United States.