Damian Clarke
The all-time winning coach in Fort Lewis College women's soccer program history -- Damian Clarke -- returned to FLC in February 2018.
Clarke returned to Durango, Colo. from NCAA Division II Midwestern State University (Wichita Falls, Texas) where he spent the past four years as head coach of the Mustangs. In four seasons, Clarke collected a 40-27-13 record, including two trips to the NCAA South Regional Championship, and the 2016 Lone Star Conference championship title.
Clarke held the role as head coach for the Skyhawks for seven years from 2007-2013, earning a 106-31-17 record, and a 67-20-11 conference record. His 106 career victories during that time moved him into first place for the most coaching wins in the program's record books, ahead of Jaymee Carozza (76 career wins), whom Clarke served as assistant coach for six years. Clarke eclipsed the century mark on Oct. 13, 2013 at New Mexico Highlands.
Following the 2019 season, in his 13 seasons as a NCAA Division II head coach, Clarke has earned an impressive 159-74-35 (.658) career coaching record.
Clarke's teams have qualified for the NCAA Division II women's soccer playoffs seven times (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016 and 2017) and hosted the regional tournament four times (2009, 2010, 2011 and 2013). In 2010, Fort Lewis won the Central Region crown and advanced to the NCAA Division II quarterfinals. Clarke's team followed that up in 2011 by returning to the Central Region championship game.
Under his watch, the Skyhawks won two RMAC tournament titles (2007 and 2009) and the only regular season RMAC championship (2010) in FLC women's soccer history.
Clarke was chosen as the 2009 NSCAA/Mondo Collegiate Central Region Coach of the Year and RMAC Coach of the Year, making him the first Fort Lewis women's soccer coach to receive both honors in the same season. He also was chosen as RMAC Co-Coach of the Year in 2010 and repeated as the NSCAA Central Region Coach of the Year that same year.
In his rookie season at the helm of the FLC women's soccer program, Clarke's Skyhawks won the RMAC tournament, defeating the two-time and defending national champions Metro State in the conference semifinals. He also guided the women's soccer squad to their first-ever NCAA tournament berth that year. The team's 14-5-3 overall mark set a new school record for most wins in one season.
During his second year as head coach, Clarke's Skyhawks again posted a winning slate, this time 12-7-2 overall and 9-4-1 in RMAC games.
The 2009 season was a record-breaking year for the coach and the Skyhawks. Clarke's team posted the most successful women's soccer record in school history with an 18-3-3 overall mark, a 12-2-2 RMAC slate, their highest-ever national ranking (No. 11), and an NCAA playoff bid. The team also captured its third RMAC tournament crown in four seasons. By hosting the first two rounds of the NCAA Central Regionals, the 2009 squad became the first women's soccer team in school history to host a national playoff game.
2010 saw many of those records shattered. Clarke's Skyhawks posted a best-ever record of 18-3-2 overall, 12-1-1 in league games, and climbed to No. 3 in the national rankings. They also picked up their first-ever NCAA playoff win (a 2-1 triumph over Winona State in the Central Regional championship) and reached the NCAA Division II Elite Eight.
The 2011 side brought a return trip to the Central Regional championship game, where FLC lost 1-0 to Colorado Mines, but racked up a 15-3-4 overall record, 10-2-2 in RMAC games and matched its highest-ever ranking in the NSCAA/Continental Tire national poll at No. 3 on Sept. 13.
Fort Lewis jumped out to a quick start in 2012, earning the program's highest-ever national ranking at No. 2 on Sept. 11. FLC finished the season at 13-4-3 overall and 8-3-3 in the tough RMAC regular season campaign. The Skyhawks split their league playoff games, advancing to the league semifinals for the seventh year in a row.
In Clarke's last season at the helm (16-6 overall), The Skyhawks won their first six games of the season, including three double overtime wins. By the end of the season, the Skyhawks earned the No. 3 seed in the RMAC Tournament with a 10-4 record, advancing all the way to the championship game where they fell to Colorado Mines, 2-1. FLC was awarded the No. 2 seed in the NCAA South Central Regional Tournament and played host to the St. Edward's University (L, 1-0 OT) in the second round.
Clarke has been involved in FLC soccer longer than any other person in the history of the two programs. He had a four-year career as a player (1994-95, 1997-98), appearing in 69 games while scoring five goals and notching three assists. As someone who helped establish Skyhawk men's soccer as a perennial regional — and, later, national — powerhouse, he was a member of three conference championships (1995 in the Colorado Athletic Conference, 1997 and '98 in the RMAC) and played in the first two NCAA tournament games in school history (1997 and '98).
After his playing career was over, he was asked to assist women's coach Jaymee Carozza. In 1999, their first year together, the women's program won its first RMAC tournament title and touched the Top 25 in the national rankings for the first time in young program's history. Clarke regards Carozza as his mentor and credits her with developing his career as a head coach at Fort Lewis College.
Clarke completed his bachelor's degree in History at Fort Lewis College in 2004.
Hope Fredrick
Former Fort Lewis College women's soccer associate head coach Hope Fredrick (Siffert) returned to FLC as an assistant coach in March 2018.
Previously, Siffert was an assistant coach for the Skyhawks in 2013. She comes to FLC after spending the past three seasons with Clarke at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas.
Siffert served as an assistant coach for the Mustangs in 2017, and was a graduate assistant coach at MSU in 2015 and 2016.
From Bayfield, Colo., Siffert spent three seasons coaching at Durango High School and the Durango Young Soccer Association from 2013-15. She served as an assistant at DHS for three years and coached DYSA club soccer since 2010.
Before joining the coaching ranks, she played four years of professional soccer including one year with the Colorado Force/Lady Rapids, one season with the South American Chile Colo-Colo, a year with Qbik in Sweden and one season with the Sacramento Storm.
A 2002 graduate of Bayfield High School, Siffert was a four-year letter winner at Notre dame de Namur in San Francisco where she was a three-time first team all-conference winner.
As a senior, she was named Pacific West Conference Player of the Year and was a first-team all-league performer in the Argonauts inaugural season as a PacWest member.
Prior to sitting out the 2004 campaign with an injury, she was named team MVP as a sophomore in 2003 and was a second team all-league performer as a freshman in 2002.
She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Psychology from Notre Dame de Namur in 2006.
Hayley Hollenga
Hollenga joins the Skyhawks for her first season as an assistant coach in 2023.
Hollenga, a member of the 2023 Hall of Fame class, returns to her alma mater after three seasons as an assistant coach at Rose-Hulman (NCAA DIII) in Terre Haute, Indiana. She was also a club and youth soccer coach in Texas for four years as well as an assistant coach at Midwestern State University where she worked with goalkeepers.
She stands as the most decorated women's soccer player in Skyhawks history. She helped her team finish 66-15-12 with two conference championships, four NCAA Tournament appearances, and a trip to the NCAA Elite Eight in 2010. She was a three-year team captain and set school records for career goals (43), assists (30), points (116), and game-winning goals (15).
She was chosen as the best women's soccer player in school history and is part of the school's 100-person All Sports All-Century Team. Hollenga was also featured in Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd" after scoring four game-winning goals during a five-game span. Hollenga was a second-team All-American in 2010 and a four-time all-region honoree.
In addition to her prowess on the pitch, Hollenga was a three-year member of the women's basketball team (2007-10) where she played in 36 games. She was part of the Skyhawks' teams that went on to earn a spot in the NCAA Division II Sweet 16 (2009) and NCAA Division II National Runner-Up nods (2010).
Assistant Coach: Hayley Hollenga
Email: HNHOLLENGA@fortlewis.edu
