Leo Weil Position: Head Coach Experience: 20th Season Alma Mater: Maryland

Leo Weil has been at the helm of the women's soccer program at Johns Hopkins since it began in 1992. Weil has taken the program to new heights in the last decade, recording 12 wins or more each season, including three 18-win seasons and a school record 19 wins in 2009.

As he enters his 19th season at Hopkins, the Blue Jays begin their quest for a sixth-straight Centennial Conference championship. Hopkins has made 13-consecutive postseason appearances and advanced further than any team in program history last season by reaching the NCAA Elite Eight. Weil also led the Jays to the ECAC South championship game in 2004. Through his leadership, Johns Hopkins has become a nationally respected program and an annual mainstain atop the Centennial Conference.

Weil boasts an impressive 228-88-27 (.704) career record at Hopkins. In 1997, in just the sixth year of its varsity status and one year following its first winning season, Hopkins went 15-3-1 on its way to clinching its second-straight Centennial Conference title and advanced to the NCAA Tournament, the first postseason appearance in program history. The Blue Jays have since earned eight NCAA Tournament berths and claimed eight postseason titles. The Jays won two ECAC South titles in 2000 and 2001 and six more Centennial championships (2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009).

In 2007, after winning their third-consecutive conference title, the Blue Jays surpassed Gettysburg for the most Centennial Conference championships (6) and are the only soccer team in the conference to win three-straight.

Hopkins has been regularly ranked in the NSCAA Mid-Atlantic Region top 10 since the 2000 season and are ranked sixth in the 2010 NSCAA preseason rankings. In 2000 and 2001, the team set a school record with 16 consecutive wins over two seasons, including the final 11 contests in 2000.

The success of the program has also resulted in numerous individual postseason accolades. Weil has produced 91 All-Centennial selections, 29 NSCAA All-Region players, and NSCAA First-Team All-Americans in 2006, 2008 and 2009. The Blue Jays also won the NSCAA Academic Team Award every year since 1998. Hopkins has had three players earn Centennial Conference Player of the Year honors under Weil's leadership (Sarah Parola-1997, Kaitlin Giannetti-2006, Jessica Hnatiuk-2009).

Weil graduated from the University of Maryland in 1967 with his Bachelor of Science degree in psychology. He later earned his A.G.S. in school psychology in 1976 from Maryland as well.

Weil has an extensive soccer background, coaching from the youth club level through the high school and college levels. From 1998 to 2005 Weil coached in the Maryland District Development Program. He has attended more than 25 national workshops and has held a National "C" License since 1989. Weil was a coach in the Washington Area Girl's Soccer League for 22 years, served as the vice president from 1982 to 1994 and was part of the tournament committee from 1992 to 1994. In 1996, Weil was named the Maryland State Youth Soccer Association's Girls' Coach of the Year. He was also a member of the coaches selection committee for the Soccer Association of Columbia from 1982 to 1992. He served a one-year stint in 1989 on the Maryland State Youth Soccer Association's board.

Weil was a student of the game for 13 years, playing on various local adult teams as part of indoor and outdoor leagues and played goalkeeper for 10 years.