Across teams, new faces teach and train

The field hockey team welcomes two new assistant coaches to the staff in Homero Pardi and Allison Nemeth ’07. Pardi has gained ample experience coaching at the collegiate level, serving as an assistant coach at Georgetown and Kent State. Most recently, however, Pardi coached for a year in Venezuela. He also played for several years on the Venezuelan national team and was a member of the Indoor Pan-American Cup team in 2002.

Nemeth, a recent alumna, will be a familiar face to many of the Tigers. She will join the staff as a goalkeeping coach after having spent last year at Penn as an assistant. At Princeton, Nemeth was honored as the Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 2003 and a first-team All-Ivy selection her senior year. Nemeth was a member of three Ivy League championship teams in her four seasons and captained the team her final year.

Head coach Kristen Holmes-Winn said she is thankful to have two coaches who have such strong backgrounds in the game.

“They both work so hard,” Holmes-Winn said. “They have just been fantastic. Having four people at practice every day and being able to pass on information to athletes has been so beneficial.”

Football

Chris Mosley signed on as the tight ends coach for the football team this fall, replacing Adam Hollis. Hollis was named the offensive line coach when Gregg Perry left the Tigers to coach at his alma mater, the University of Delaware.

Mosley credits the character of the coaches and the team and the football team’s emphasis on the scholar-athlete approach as reasons for joining the Princeton staff.

“It had a lot to do with the comfort level I felt with the staff and being around the players who understand the value of being around academics as well as athletics,” Mosley said.

Originally a running back at Southeast Missouri State, Mosley transferred and finished his football career at Washington & Jefferson College. He returned to W&J as an assistant and later coached at Akron and Villanova before arriving at Boston College in 2007. There, he served as the assistant offensive line coach and had a hand in a variety of administrative responsibilities for the Eagles, including recruiting, a duty he will continue with the Tigers.

Mosley enjoyed an excellent season at Boston College, as the Eagles won 11 games for the first time since 1940 and defeated Michigan State in the Champs Sports Bowl.

Though Ivy League football is quite a departure from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Mosley said he has experienced an easy transition so far and is enjoying Princeton.

Men’s soccer

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Steve Totten replaced Arron Lujan as the men’s soccer assistant coach when Lujan headed to Pittsburgh, Pa., to take the reigns at Carnegie Mellon, which is unbeaten so far this season. Totten, a New Jersey native, played for the Peddie School and then excelled at the University of Virginia.

Totten captained the Cavaliers for three of his four seasons at UVA, where he led his team to three NCAA quarterfinal appearances and back-to-back ACC championships in 2000 and 2001.

Since graduating from college, Totten has had coaching experience at all levels of the game. In Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Maryland, Totten coached for both high school and club teams. He spent the past two seasons as the assistant coach at American, a squad consistently near the top of the Patriot League.

Totten has joined the Tigers at an excellent time for Princeton soccer with the recent opening of Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium.

“It’s been pretty nice to be here for the first year with the new stadium,” Totten said. “It seems like there’s a buzz around the team and around Princeton soccer, and it’s just a beautiful environment to play in.”