Erica Dambach

Dambach with Penn State in 2025
Personal information
Full name	Erica Marie Dambach[1]
Birth name	Erica Marie Walsh
Date of birth	(1975-11-16) November 16, 1975[2]
Place of birth	Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
Positions	Defender midfielder[3]
Team information
Current team	Penn State (coach)
Youth career
1991–1992	Lower Moreland Lions[4]
College career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1993–1996	William & Mary
Managerial career
1997	Bucknell (assistant)
1998–1999	Dartmouth (assistant)
2000–2002	Dartmouth
2003–2004	Lehigh (assistant)
2004	United States U19 (assistant)
2004–2007	United States U17
2005	Florida State (assistant)
2006	Harvard
2007–	Penn State
2007–2012	United States (assistant)
2020	United States (assistant)

Erica Marie Dambach (née Walsh; born November 16, 1975) is an American college soccer coach who is the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions women's soccer team. She led Penn State to the 2015 national championship. She is a two-time NSCAA Coach of the Year, winning the award in 2012 and 2015.

She was the head coach at Dartmouth from 2000 to 2002, resigning following the 2002 season in order to pursue educational opportunities.^[5] After serving as an assistant coach at Lehigh, she was hired as an assistant coach at Florida State in January 2005.^[6] She was hired as head coach at Harvard prior to the 2006 season.^[7] In February 2007, she then resigned at Harvard in order to take the Penn State head coaching position.^[8][9] She was named the NSCAA Coach of the Year in 2012^[10] and 2015.^[11]

She led Penn State to a national championship in 2015.^[12]

She was an assistant coach for the United States women's national soccer team at the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[13]

She was an assistant coach for the United States women's national soccer team for the 2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship.^[14]

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