Two-Year Assistant Rob Fulton Named Head Women's Soccer Coach

July 10, 2006

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. - Shippensburg Director of Athletics Dr. Roberta Page has announced that assistant women's soccer coach Rob Fulton has been promoted to head women's soccer coach. Fulton has spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach under Guy Furfaro, the school's head men's soccer coach.

In addition to being the head coach of the women's soccer program, Fulton will also serve as an assistant to Furfaro in the men's program while Furfaro will assist Fulton with the women.

Fulton has two years of college head coaching experience at the College of the Southwest, an NAIA school located in Hobbs, New Mexico. While there, he totaled a 22-16-1 record as the head coach of the women's program from 2002-03. He also served as an assistant professor of physical education.

In 2003, Fulton guided the Lady Mustangs to a 13-6-1 record and the Red River Athletic Conference (RRAC) regular-season title and an appearance in the conference championship game. He was also honored as the RRAC Coach of the Year.

Orginally from Fort Collins, Colorado, Fulton came to the College of the Southwest from Austin, Texas where he was coaching with the ASC Eagles Soccer Club. Fulton began his coaching career in Colorado where he was the girls' junior varsity coach at Loveland High School for two years beginning in 1994.

Fulton was then the head boys' and assistant girls' varsity coach at Poudre High School for three years where he helped lead the girls to a state championship and earned the Northern Conference Boys' Soccer Coach of the Year in 1996. In addition to his experience at the high school level, Fulton also served as the soccer trainer for the Eagles Soccer Club in Round Rock, Texas from January 2001 to February 2002.

Fulton started his playing career at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri and finished at Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa where he was a team captain and named his team's Most Valuable Player as a senior. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in liberal studies with a concentration in wellness program management from Graceland in 1992.

In 1999, Fulton received his master's in education along with elementary and physical education certifications from Southwest Texas State University. Fulton also holds his National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) national diploma.

The Shippensburg women open the 2006 season on Thursday, August 24 at Edinboro.

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