Spencer Valdespino will enter her sixth year as an assistant coach of the Trinity Tigers women’s soccer team during the 2023 season. She also serves as the Department of Athletics Director of Lifetime Fitness and Wellness.

Coach Valdespino was inducted into the Nicholls State University (LA) Hall of Fame in October of 2022. She also helped the Tigers to a a 21-1-2 record and an NCAA III Round of 16 appearance. She also saw Molly Sheridan earn an SCAC Woman of the year nod. 

Coach Valdespino helped guide the Tigers to a 15-3-2 record with an appearance in the elite eight. Coach Valdespino was also a part of the staff that won the United Soccer Coaches Staff of the Year for the X Region. 

In the 2019 season, when the Tigers advanced to the NCAA Division III Round of 16, Coach Valdespino shared the United Soccer Coaches NCAA Division III West Region Staff of the Year accolade with Head Coach Dylan Harrison and colleagues. 

Coach Valdespino joined the Trinity staff in 2018 after two years coaching experience at the NCAA Division II Auburn University at Montgomery, Alabama. She was a graduate assistant coach with the Warhawks women’s soccer team and earned a master’s degree in 2018 in sport management. 

The versatile Coach Valdespino also coaches at Saint Mary’s Hall, a private, college preparatory school in San Antonio. She is the girls soccer assistant coach and also serves as goalkeepers coach for both the girls and boys teams.

Coach Valdespino competed for the NCAA Division I Nicholls State (LA) University Colonels women’s soccer team from 2012-2015 and was the most decorated women’s soccer player in school history. She was elected the 2013 Louisiana Sports Writers’ Association (LSWA) and Southland Conference Soccer Player of the Year. Coach Valdespino was also tabbed for the 2013 National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA, now United Soccer Coaches) All-Region Second Team. 

She earned LSWA First Team honors for four years, and All-Southland First Team kudos for three seasons. A prolific scorer, Coach Valdespino holds virtually every offensive record in the history of the Colonels program. Among her career credentials are goals scored, game-winning goals, points, and points per game. Coach Valdespino is also first in single-season points, points per game, and game-winning goals, to name a few.

Coach Valdespino’s mentor at Nicholls State was current Trinity Head Coach Dylan Harrison, who led the Colonels from the 2009-2015 seasons. Academically, Coach Valdespino earned a bachelor’s degree in mass communication from Nicholls State in 2016, with a focus in journalism.  

A native of Spring Hill, Florida, Coach Valdespino attended Bishop McLaughlin Catholic High School (FL) and was rated as one of the top recruits in the state.

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