Soccer
- Title:
- Head Coach
- E-Mail:
- soccercoach@athletics.tamu.edu
Entering his 32nd season as the only coach in Aggie Soccer history, G Guerrieri has built the Texas A&M program from scratch into one of the elite sides in the nation and he has the Maroon & White planted firmly atop the SEC.
In 2022, Guerrieri hit the 500-win mark in his coaching career, becoming only the fifth women’s soccer coach in NCAA Division I history to achieve the milestone.
Guerrieri has led the Maroon & White to 16 Sweet Sixteens, seven Elite Eights and the 2014 NCAA Women's College Cup. Coach G's Aggies have consistently been ranked in the national top 25 over the past 25-plus seasons while attracting some of the top soccer players in the world to College Station.
Entering 2024, Guerrieri ranks second among active NCAA Division I head coaches with 510 wins. His victory total ranks fifth all-time and his winning percentage sits 10th. He has guided Texas A&M to 18 confference championships - 10 regular-season titles and eight conference tournament crowns. He is a five-time conference coach of the year and five-time NSCAA Central Region Coach of the Year.
With Guerrieri at the helm, Texas A&M has established one of the greatest college soccer atmospheres in the country. The Aggies ranked in the top three in home attendance from 2002-22, including the nation's top attendance in 2003, ‘04, ‘06, ‘07, ‘18 and ‘20. Furthermore, Guerrieri's teams have won 85 percent of their home matches since the Aggie Soccer Stadium opened in 1994. He also helped Ellis Field secure College Cup hosting bids on three occasions (2005, 2007, 2009).
Not only have Guerrieri's teams fared well on the field, but all of the student-athletes that have completed their playing careers for him at A&M have either graduated or are on schedule to graduate. In so doing so, the team has annually maintained a team GPA above 3.0. In November 2023 the Aggies earned the United Soccer Coaches (USC) Team Academic Award (composite team GPA of at least 3.0 for all team members who appear on the official NCAA roster forms) for the 12th consecutive season. In May, the women's soccer team once again was celebrated as the Texas A&M program with the highest cumulative grade point average.
In 2020, Guerrieri led a crew that earned United Soccer Coaches Southeast Region Staff of the Year recognition and, personally, he picked up SEC Coach of the Year status. In the unique split season, the Aggies scratched out a 12-4-1 season. In the fall, Ol’ Sarge’s charges earned a share of the SEC regular-season title with a 7-1-0 record. With two All-Americans leaving the squad in January, the coaching staff reworked the lineup to grind out an Elite Eight run in which Texas A&M got past three Top 20 opponents.
Guerrieri guided the Maroon & White to a 14-5-3 record and 25th consecutive NCAA Tournament bid in 2019. The season was capped off by Ally Watt becoming the highest draft pick in school history, selected sixth overall by the North Carolina Courage.
In 2018, Texas A&M started the season with a 10-match unbeaten string en route to a 17-5-1 record, and 15th Sweet Sixteen appearance.
Guerrieri’s efforts facilitated the Aggies posting the best winning percentage in school history in 2017 with an 18-2-2 mark (.864). The Maroon & White also posted a school-best 14-game winning streak, which included capturing three matches en route to the school’s third SEC Tournament title.
In 2016, Guerrieri piloted the Aggies out of the first round of the NCAA tournament for the 19th consecutive year. In the second round, Texas A&M fell in penalties to eventual National Champion USC, giving the Trojans their toughest test of the tournament.
In 2015, guiding a team that returned just three starters and seven percent of their scoring from the prior season, Guerrieri put in one of his best coaching jobs. The coaching corps steered the gritty Aggies to an NCAA Championship quarterfinal spot, handing the North Carolina Tar Heels their first exit prior to the Sweet 16 in the 34-year history of the tournament.
The 2014 campaign represented the grandest in school history and Guerrieri picked up SEC and NSCAA Central Region Coach of the Year status. Texas A&M experienced a historic season, setting a school record for wins on the way to its first-ever College Cup appearance. The Maroon & White went 22-3-2 on the season and won the SEC Double with a regular-season crown and tournament title. The Aggies became the first team to earn the SEC Double in back-to-back seasons since Florida in 2001. They also became the first SEC team since Florida in 2001 to advance to the College Cup.
In 2019, Texas A&M was the only NCAA Division I program to receive the freshly minted Team Pinnacle Award, presented by the USC. A total of 17 collegiate women's soccer programs earned the award for the 2018-19 academic year for achieving a high level of fair play, educational excellence and success on the pitch, with the Aggies as the only squad from the top echelon. To be considered for the award, squads had to earn the USC Team Ethics and Sportsmanship Award and the USC Team Academic Award as well as register a winning percentage of .750 or higher during the respective season.
A native of Chicago, Guerrieri was raised in the Dallas area (Richardson), where he played for the powerful Sparta Blue club team, the top youth team in Texas at the time. Guerrieri also captained the J.J. Pearce High School soccer team as a goalkeeper. Following high school, he continued his playing career at the University of Tulsa. As team captain of the Golden Hurricane, he was honored as the team MVP in 1982 and was named to the 1981 All-Midwest team. During his career, he set most of the school's team and individual defensive records, many of which he still holds 40 years after graduation. Guerrieri was inducted into the Universit of Tulsa Athletic Hall of Fame in April 2024.
Following his graduation from Tulsa, Guerrieri served as an assistant coach for the men's programs at Tulsa (1985) and North Texas (1987 and 1990), and as the assistant men's coach and head women's coach at Rollins College (1986). Before coming to College Station, Guerrieri served as head coach for both the men's and women's soccer teams at Hardin-Simmons University and Richland College. His Hardin-Simmons women's team was the 1988 NAIA national runner-up and the 1989 NAIA regional finalist, earning him the Met Life/NSCAA Region Coach of the Year honor. Guerrieri's 1991 and 1992 Richland teams frequented the NJCAA national top-10 rankings in both the men's and women's divisions, and he was twice named Regional Coach of the Year.
While the head coach at Richland, Guerrieri served the soccer community in various capacities, ranging from director of coaching for the Dallas Flame Soccer Club, to goalkeeper coach for the North Texas Soccer Association's Olympic Development Program (ODP) from 1990-92. He was also a key personality in the development of the NDCCSA Classic League Soccer Facility at Richland. He later served as the USA Region III ODP Program Goalkeeper Coach from 1994-2001.
In 2019, Guerrieri and the Aggie Soccer program received the “Bank of America Award for Philanthropy, Service, and Volunteerism in the Community” from the Bush School of Government & Public Service. In 2020 he was appointed to the SEC Council on Racial Equity and Social Justice by commissioner Greg Sankey as the representative of soccer coaches in the league, and to the “Aggie Commitment” working committee by Ross Bjork, representing the head coaches at Texas A&M in local initiatives and educational programs.
Guerrieri also serves in a volunteer role as the President of the Cavalry Youth Soccer Club here in Bryan – College Station, and has raised thousands and thousands of dollars through his Charity Golf Tournament (www.CoachGGolf.com) to help underprivileged boys play competitive soccer and learn the valuable lessons that “the beautiful game” teaches.
Guerrieri received his B.S. in education from Tulsa in 1985. Guerrieri and his wife, the former Terri Markham (A&M, ‘87), have three children - a daughter, Emily (A&M, 2019), and two sons, Alan (A&M, ’23), a former punter on the Aggie football team, and Conner, a sophomore at Texas A&M.
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