USC Aiken women’s soccer head coach Susan Vodicka will begin her seventh season at USC Aiken in 2011.

In her first six seasons, the Pacers have posted a 29-65-7 record.

The 2010 USC Aiken women’s soccer team concluded its year by producing a positive result in four of its final five games. The Pacers earned three wins in the final five games to end the year with a 5-11-2 (0-8-2 PBC) record overall.

The 2009 USC Aiken women's soccer team was honored as one of the top 20 most improved NCAA Division II women's soccer team.

The rankings are done by calculating a team's improvement by comparing its final 2009 rating to an adjusted 2008 rating. A team's rating roughly equates to net goals (goals scored minus goals against).

The criteria allowed the Pacers to obtain a 1.34 rating to leave them with the 15th-best improvement in all of Division II women's soccer. USC Aiken improved its win total by three games in 2009.

The 2009 USC Aiken women's soccer campaign ended with the Pacers owning a 6-11 record overall. USC Aiken finished the season winning four of its final five games. The Pacers concluded the 2009 Peach Belt Conference season with a 2-8 record.

In a season full of close contests for the Pacer women, USC Aiken ended its 2009 Peach Belt Conference slate having been on the losing side of three overtime games in PBC action. In total, USC Aiken finished its 2009 season with nine one-goal losses.

The Pacers lost six of their eight games in PBC play by just one goal.

USC Aiken's defensive unit had a tremendous season-ending stretch of not allowing a goal. The Pacer defense had not given up a goal in just over 501 minutes before surrendering the first goal of the match to GCSU in their season finale. The Pacers had played the entire 90 minutes of the previous four matches without surrendering a goal.

In 2008, Vodicka guided the Pacers to a 3-15-2 record, which included a 1-7-1 record in Peach Belt Conference games.

Vodicka engineered a remarkable turnaround in 2006, guiding her squad to a fourth place finish in the Peach Belt Conference after being predicted to place ninth. USC Aiken finished the season 7-11-2, including a 4-4-1 mark in PBC play. The four conference wins marked the combined total for the program’s previous six seasons of league play.

The conference coaches took notice of the work Vodicka had done and voted her the 2006 PBC Coach of the Year, the first USC Aiken women’s soccer coach to earn that award.

Vodicka was named the second head women’s soccer coach at USC Aiken in the program’s history on July 20, 2005.

In her first season with the Pacers, Vodicka began laying the building blocks for a successful program moving forward.

Hired late in the summer, Vodicka fielded a team that was short on numbers, but not on excitement and hard work.

Vodicka came to USCA with 11 years of NCAA Division I coaching experience, including one season as the head coach at Virginia Commonwealth University. She served as an assistant at the College of William & Mary, Washington State and George Mason University.

Prior to her arrival, USC Aiken head men’s soccer coach Ike Ofoje had served as head coach of both the men’s and women’s teams since the Pacers began play in 1997.

As a student-athlete at George Mason, Vodicka was a member of three NCAA Tournament teams. The 1983 squad made it to the national championship game and her 1985 team claimed the NCAA National Championship by beating North Carolina in the title match.

She earned a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in English from GMU in 1986 and a Virginia Secondary Teaching Certificate in 1992.

The George Mason graduate served as assistant coach at her alma mater from 1999 to 2003. During her five seasons, the Patriots were 49-48-7 overall but went 25-11-3 in Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) play. GMU tied for first place in the CAA in 2000 and 2001, and finished second in 2002. The team was the CAA Tournament runner-up in 2000 and 2002.

At GMU, Vodicka coached six NSCAA All-Region selections, 13 All-CAA selections and 10 All-CAA Tournament selections. More impressively, while overseeing the team’s academics for all five seasons, 41 Patriot women’s soccer players received the CAA Commissioner’s Academic Award and the squad posted George Mason’s highest team GPA in six of nine semesters.

Before accepting the position at her alma mater, Vodicka served as head coach for one season at Virginia Commonwealth. The Rams posted a 7-9-2 overall record and a 2-5-1 mark in the CAA. While she spent just one season at the helm of the program, her impact was strong. VCU earned the program’s first ever conference wins over James Madison and American University, and they tied 10th-ranked Virginia.

In addition, her squad produced two All-CAA selections. Vodicka made her collegiate head coaching debut after serving two seasons as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Washington State.

In her first season in Pullman, Wash., the Cougars doubled their win total from the previous season. In two seasons combined, Vodicka coached four All-PAC-10 selections while nine Cougars earned PAC-10 All-Academic honors.

Vodicka began her collegiate coaching career at the College of William & Mary where she served as assistant coach from 1993 to 1995. During Vodicka’s three seasons at William & Mary, the Tribe made three NCAA Tournament appearances, posted a 43-16-2 record and went unbeaten in the CAA at 15-0-1.

The team captured two CAA Championships and finished as the runner-up once. The 1994 squad went 17-4-0 (6-0-0 CAA) on its way to winning the CAA Championship and making the NCAA’s Sweet 16.

Hank Deer is in his third season as an assistant coach with the USC Aiken women’s soccer program.

Deer joined the USC Aiken women’s soccer program after coaching the North Augusta girls varsity soccer program since 2005.

Deer guided North Augusta to new heights during his four seasons with the program. He led North Augusta to a 44-30 record overall in his four years in charge, collecting a winning season in each of his four seasons at the helm.

Deer guided North Augusta to its first ever winning season in his first season in charge in 2005.

From that point forward, North Augusta continued to become even more formidable and people began to take notice. The Augusta Chronicle took notice of his work by naming him the 2007 South Carolina Girls Coach of the Year.

Just one year later in 2008, he helmed a North Augusta squad that was region 4-AAAA runner-up. For his work with his 2008 team, Deer was selected the region 4-AAAA girls Coach of the Year.

Deer has been working in the school systems in the state of South Carolina since 1989. In addition to coaching soccer, he has also coached football and track.

In fact, in 2001 when Deer was the head varsity track coach at Silver Bluff High School in Aiken, S.C. he was chosen as the Aiken Standard Track Coach of the Year.

Deer has coached football at North Augusta (2003-2008), Silver Bluff (2000-2003), Ridge Spring-Monetta (1999-2000 and 1994-97), McCormick (1997-1999) and Midland Valley (1992-94). He has been a part of two state championships, serving as the defensive backs coach on Silver Bluff’s state title teams in 2000 and 2001.

Deer played college soccer at Lander. He graduated from USC Aiken’s fellow Peach Belt Conference institution in 1987 with a bachelor’s of science in Physical Education. He obtained his master’s of science in Sport Management from the United States Sports Academy in 2000.

In addition to his responsibilities with USC Aiken women’s soccer, Deer will be teaching Biology at South Aiken High School. Deer is married to Joel and the couple have a son, Owen, who is six.