Bio

Stephanie Peel was named head women’s soccer coach at Dallas College Richland Feb. 6, 2023.

In her first season with the Thunderducks, Peel coached a team that went 9-2-3, advancing to the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III South District championship. Richland was ranked No. 3 in the nation. 

From 2015-23, Peel served as the head girls varsity soccer coach at Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas. Her team won District 11-5A championships in 2018 and 2021. She was named District Coach of the Year in 2018 and 2021. From 2010-13, she was an assistant coach at Moravian College, an NCAA Division III institution in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. While in Bethlehem, she also coached with FC Lehigh Soccer Club’s Under-12 and U-11 girls teams as well as the U-7 academy program from 2007-08 and 2010-13.

Peel assisted in coaching and evaluation duties at the Region III Olympic Development Program in Montevallo, Alabama in 2010. She worked a camp for Soccer Without Borders in Nicarauga in 2009, and served as the youth soccer director and coach in Tyreso, Sweden in 2008.

From 2006-08, Peel served as an assistant coach at Lehigh University. She was a graduate assistant coach with the Mountain Hawks from 2004-06. 

Peel played professionally in the Swedish Professional League in 2008-09. Her team, Tyreso FF, took first place in the league, and was promoted to the top division, Allsvenskan. From 2001-09, she played in the United Soccer League’s W League for the New Jersey Sky Blue, New York Athletic Club, New York Magic, Arizona Heatwave, Chicago Cobras, Texas Odyssey and Texas Heatwave.

In college, she played four years as a defender at Arizona State University from 2001-04. She was an Honorable Mention All-Pac-10 selection as a freshman, finishing with five assists, four goals and 13 points. She earned three Second Team All-Pac-10 Academic honors. Peel started all 80 games of her Sun Devils career.  

Peel earned a Bachelor of Arts in secondary education from Arizona State in 2005. She earned a Master of Arts in secondary education from Lehigh University in 2007.