After serving as a graduate assistant coach with the University of North Alabama women's soccer program in 2018, Kerry Edwards was elevated to a full-time assistant position with the Lions in 2019, working with the team's goalkeepers.
In 2018, Edwards helped direct the Lions to an 11-9-1 overall mark in the program's first season of Division I competition. UNA won two matches in the ASUN Conference Tournament and advanced to the championship match before falling 3-2 to Lipscomb.
The Lions allowed just 1.27 goals per match in 2018.
In 2019, despite losing starting goalkeeper Savannah Stewart just three matches into the season, the Lions allowed just 1.75 goals per match and recorded four shutouts.
Edwards spent the 2016 season at UNA as a graduate assistant before accepting a position as an assistant coach with the University of South Alabama for the 2017 season. She then returned to UNA in 2018.
The McKinney, Texas native will continue to work with the UNA goalkeepers.
In 2015, Edwards started her coaching collegiate career at Southwest Oklahoma State. The Bulldogs posted 11 shutouts as a team and had a 1.19 GAA, while going 13-6-1 overall and 8-3-1 in the Great American Conference, good for third in the league standings.
SWOSU's goals against average ranked second in the GAC, and the 11 clean sheets were tied for first.
At UNA in 2016, the Lions' goalkeepers posted a 1.28 goals against average that ranked sixth in the Gulf South Conference.
In 2018, UNA had a 1.27 GAA, allowing just 27 goals in 21 matches played.
Prior to joining the staff at Southwest Oklahoma State, she spent the spring of 2015 as a volunteer assistant at McKinney North High School in McKinney, Texas.
Edwards was a highly-decorated player at Dallas Baptist, where she led DBU to three NCAA Tournament appearances, including a Sweet 16 appearance in 2011. She finished her career second in the Division II record books with 51 career shutouts, and third with over 8,018 minutes in goal.
She was named all-Heartland Conference and all-South Central Region in each of her four seasons, and was a two-time NCCAA All-American as well.
