Lilia Dosalmas was hired as Head Coach of the UC Santa Cruz women’s soccer program in 2022 and brings extensive experience to the position.

In her first season, Dosalmas earned Conference Coach of the Year after a winning season that included eight shutouts. Four student-athletes made First Team All-Conference, and 22 student-athletes earned Academic All-Conference.

Dosalmas spent the previous six years as Head Coach at fellow Coast-to-Coast member Mills College. While at Mills, she led the Cyclones to qualify for the Great South Conference playoffs in 2015, the American Collegiate Athletic Association Conference playoffs in 2016, 2017, and 2019, and again in the Coast-to-Coast Conference post-season tournament in 2021. Dosalmas’s tenure at Mills produced seven all-conference selections, while the 2018 squad cemented their place in the history books by not only scoring the most goals in school history but also amassing the most wins in 13 years. 

Coach Dosalmas holds a Bachelor’s degree from UC Santa Barbara and a Master’s degree from UC Berkeley in Education with an emphasis in the Cultural Studies of Sport in Education. She has received national coaching licenses from the US Soccer Federation and holds her Advanced National Diploma from United Soccer Coaches.