Alex Zaroyan - Soccer Coach

Alex Zaroyan

Title:
Graduate Assistant
Email:
aleozaro@ut.utm.edu
Phone:
731-881-7931

Alex Zaroyan is in his second season as a graduate assistant at UT Martin, working primarily with the goalkeepers along with other day-to-day activities in 2021.

In a COVID-19 shortened season in 2020, the Skyhawks played a conference-only season during the spring semester. UT Martin finished the regular season on a four-game winning streak to post a 6-4-1 campaign - good for third place in the league standings. Three players earned All-OVC honors with Emely van der Vliet and Maria Castaldo on the first team while Erica Myers was selected to the second team. Van der Vliet also picked up OVC Freshman of the Year honors in addition to All-Newcomer accolades.

Zaroyan joins the Skyhawks after spending the 2019-20 campaign at Angelia College where he was an assistant coach for both the men’s and women’s soccer teams. After a change in leadership during the season, Zaroyan and Fergus O’Connor co-led the program throughout the season and combined to go 18-18-2 between the two programs. While with the Roadrunners he helped lead both teams to the postseason while watching the men’s team notch its first playoff victory in one of the toughest conferences in the JUCO ranks along with knocking off a nationally ranked opponent. Academically, his players led all other sports at Angelina on the President’s and Dean’s academic lists.

Prior to his time at Angelina College, he spent the 2017-18 season as an assistant at Ursinus College. He also boasted coaching experience at the club level with Palumbo Soccer Club and Castro Valley Soccer Club. Outside of coaching, he has interned with the Philadelphia Flyers and Bethlehem Steel Football Club.

Along with his coaching abilities, Zaroyan has accumulated a diverse skill set while working all around the sport. He worked as a live charter and tracker with Match Analysis in the San Francisco Bay area, tracking more than 750 hours of soccer matches in leagues and teams ranging from Major League Soccer, Liga MX, U.S. Men’s and Women’s National teams and NCAA Division I programs across the nation.

Zaroyan’s own playing experiences ranged from playing recreational, club and high school soccer. He also had a trial with LIGA MX Academy Side, Tiburones Veracruz.

He has obtained his U.S. Soccer D and Cal South E licenses along with his U.S. Soccer National C license. He also boasts NCAA coaching certificates and Futsal with the NSCAA.

A native of Monrovia, Calif., Zaroyan began his collegiate studies at California State University-East Bay before finishing his bachelor’s degree in sports and recreational management with a concentration in governance and policy from Temple University in 2018.