Julio Vacacela joined the Monmouth women's soccer coaching staff in August of 2019. 

Vacacela works primarily with the Monmouth goalkeepers.

Since arriving in West Long Branch, Vacacela has helped the program secure a pair of MAAC regular season and tournament titles (2019 & 2021). While on the staff, Monmouth has compiled a 34-8-7 overall record and a 21-2-3 mark in conference contests.

In his first season with the program, he helped mentor Amanda Knaub, who led the NCAA in goals-against average and save percentage during her senior season. The Hawks allowed an NCAA-low four goals against and won the 2019 MAAC Regular Season and Tournament Championships.

A 1991 graduate of Monmouth, Vacacela was a goalkeeper for the men’s soccer team and a member of the Hawks’ 1990 Northeast Conference Regular Season and Tournament Championship team. Vacacela played semi-professional soccer in New York and New Jersey following his graduation and has coached a number of men’s and women’s soccer players in various coaching roles.

From 2001 through 2011, Vacacela coached at Match Fit Academy Football Club and served as an assistant coach working with goalkeepers for the Princeton University women’s soccer team from 2003-2014. Vacacela has also worked as a staff coach with New Jersey Rush Soccer club since 2014 and as the Director of Coaching at Howell United Soccer Club since 2016. He has also assisted as a Boys Staff Coach for the New Jersey Olympic Development Program since 2001.