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Coaching Honors
1 NCCAA National Tournament Appearance
1 CCAC Player of the Year
1 CCAC Freshman of the Year
1 NAIA All-American
2 NCCAA All-American
6 All-CCAC Players
After two years as the head coach at Judson University, Diego Cevallos continues to bring in talent that will push for a CCAC Championship and birth into the NAIA National Tournament. In two seasons, he has provided six All-CCAC players, one CCAC Player and Freshman of the Year, and a third place finish at the NCCAA National Tournament.
Making longer strides for his team in 2009, Judson won 14 games, received votes in the NAIA National Poll, and made the programs fourth appearance in the NCCAA National Tournament. He continued to challenge his program by playing atleast nine teamst that were receiving votes or ranked in the NAIA National Poll. He also had the CCAC Freshman of the Year (Kamila Marchi) and NCCAA All-American Christina Thornton. The 14 wins were also one shy of tying the program record for wins.
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, and 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 seventh 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.