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Coaching Honors
1 CCAC Player of the Year
1 NAIA All-American
3 All-CCAC Players
Striving to take the Judson University women's soccer program to another level and make them a national presence, Diego Cevallos enters his second season as the head coach. This season, he will continue to build a rising program and push for a CCAC Championship and berth to the NAIA National Tournament.
Cevallos took over the program in the 2008 season after the Judson all-time wins leader, Freddie King, decided to just be a professor at Judson. In his first season with the program, he produced the CCAC Player of the Year in Christina Thornton. The team finished 7-11-1, with a very difficult schedule that featured several national ranked teams, but defeated Judson's first-ever NCAA Division I program, Houston Baptist, 1-0 in double overtime. Three of his players were named All-CCAC while Thornton earned a status of NAIA All-American honorable mention.
No stranger to Judson, Cevallos has been a part of Judson soccer for 10 years as a player and coach. He will also assist men's soccer coaching legend Steve Burke for the sixth season. The success from 2004 through 2007 for the men's team came on his tut ledge as he recruited the players that produced 74 wins and claimed four CCAC regular season, tournament and NAIA Region VII Championships. In his first season as an assistant coach (2004), he was a part of the Eagles' impressive undefeated regular season (19-0) which ended with their only loss in the second round of the NAIA National Tournament to the eventual national champion (Lindsey Wilson).
Before becoming a coach at Judson, he distinguished himself as a soccer player playing for the Eagles from 2001-2003 where he contributed immensely to the program and helped the team claim its fifth NCCAA National Title in 2002.
Cevallos learned the game in Costa Rica, his home country, where soccer is a passion of the people and where it is very prestigious to be an accomplished player. While living in Costa Rica, he was a part of the Costa Rica National Team training program. He, then, moved to the United States and played high school soccer in Rockford earning a wide variety of awards.
For several years now, Cevallos has been involved in the local youth soccer scene and has become a PremierUS Youth Soccer Coach who is highly sought out as a trainer for both individuals and club teams. He is currently part of the coaching staff at Crystal Lake Force for the Elite program.
Cevallos is a 2001 graduate of Judson University with a bachelor's degree in Pre-Med. He is currently on hold to finish his medical career at the University Of Illinois College Of Medicine in Chicago.