Head coach Susan Vodicka enters her third season at USC Aiken. In her first two seasons, the Lady Pacers posted a 10-25-2 record.

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.

USCA 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 USCA 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 nine-year history on July 20, 2005.

In her first season with the Lady 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. After winning her debut and opening the year 3-0-0, USCA dropped its final 14 contests.

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.

Head men’s soccer coach Ike Ofoje served as head coach of both the men’s and women’s teams since the Lady 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 grad most recently 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.