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Women's Soccer
Sonia Rodriguez enters her first season as assistant women's soccer coach, working with UNI head coach James Price. At UNI, Rodriguez will assist in all aspects of the program, specializing in goalkeeper training.
Rodriguez has served the past two seasons as a graduate assistant coach at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C. She was a standout goalkeeper for Price at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., from 2001-05.
"I am delighted that Sonia will be joining us in Cedar Falls," Price said. "She is an outstanding individual who will be a positive role model for our players and I look forward to working with her again. Our goalkeepers will benefit greatly from Sonia's experience both as a successful Division I player, and from coaching one of the top goalkeepers in the country for the last two years."
At Winthrop, Rodriguez was in charge of coaching the goalkeepers, and helped Dimitra Poulos earn first-team All-Big South honors. Poulos posted a 1.22 goals against average for the Eagles this past season, while recording four shutouts.
As a player, Rodriguez holds Liberty's career record for goals against average, while ranking fifth on the school's single-season saves list. She was a Big South All-Academic Team member as a senior in 2005 when her team won the conference championship, was her team's co-captain, and was honored by receiving the school's Rock Royer/Mac Rivera Award as Liberty's top overall student-athlete.
After graduating from Liberty in December of 2005, Rodriguez played for one season at worldwide power Santos Futebol Clube in Santos, Brazil, as well as for the Charlotte Lady Eagles in the USL Women's League.
A native of Fairfax, Va., Rodriguez earned her bachelor's degree in biology from Liberty in 2005.
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