Melissa Terry - Soccer Coach - Ole Miss Athletics

Melissa Terry

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Assistant Coach

Melissa Terry, a former All-American at Central Oklahoma, completed her third season as assistant coach in 2017 for the Rebels.

Terry helped lead the Rebels to a 10-7-3 record in 2017 as Ole Miss earned a bid to the NCAA Championships for the third time in five seasons. Under her guidance, CeCe Kizer was selected a United Soccer Coaches Third Team All-American as well as First Team All-SEC laurels, while Channing Foster was tabbed Second Team All-SEC and to the SEC All-Freshman team.

Terry helped Ole Miss to nine wins in 2016, leading them to the SEC Tournament for the second-straight year. Under her assistance, senior Gretchen Harknett earned All-SEC Second Team honors, while seven different players found the net throughout the tough regular season slate.

In her first season in 2015, the Rebels advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16 for the first time in school history, knocking off No. 7 Clemson in the NCAA Second Round. Ole Miss surged to a national rank of No. 12 midway through the year, the highest in school history.

The Rebels also finished the campaign ranked 16th in the postseason poll, also the best in program history. With the help of Terry’s guidance, Kizer (SEC Freshman of the Year), junior Addie Forbus and senior Jessica Hiskey were named All-SEC and NSCAA All-South Region players.

An All-America selection as a collegiate player, Terry arrived at Ole Miss with a wealth of experience working in collegiate athletics. She brings a variety of knowledge on different aspects of collegiate soccer after working with successful women's soccer programs, including a pair of College Cup appearances at Florida State and a four-year playing career at Central Oklahoma.

Terry joined the Rebels' coaching staff after serving the previous three seasons working in strength and conditioning at the University of Oklahoma and serving as a color analyst for the Sooner Sports Network for soccer games broadcast by Fox Sports TV.

At Oklahoma, Terry helped develop a softball program that claimed the 2013 Women's College World Series crown to bring the Sooners a second NCAA Championship, along with working with the rowing team that has claimed a pair of Big 12 Championships and NCAA Tournament berths in six seasons of competition. She also trained the 2012 NCAA Women's Golf Champion in and a team that finished fourth in the NCAA Tournament in 2014.

Prior to her time at Oklahoma, Terry spent three seasons working with the women's soccer program at Florida State as the Seminoles advanced to the Women's College Cup in 2011 and 2012 as one of the final four teams standing in the NCAA Tournament both seasons. The 2010 team advanced to the Elite Eight in her first season with the Seminoles.

She also trained the women's swimming and diving team in those three seasons.

In the two years prior to her stint at Florida State, Terry completed an internship at Oklahoma through the spring and fall of 2009. In that year, she worked with women's basketball (Final Four), baseball (NCAA Regional) and wrestling (fifth-place finish at NCAA Tournament) while also developing strength and conditioning programs for the men's gymnastics team (third-place finish at the NCAA Tournament) and the women's golf team.

Terry spent the spring of 2008 through 2009 working as an intern with Baylor as a graduate assistant with the women's soccer program and in the Athletic Performance department where she worked with training multiple teams for the Bears.

She graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma in 2007 after a four-year playing career that saw Terry earn All-America honors in the 2006 season after helping lead the Bronchos to a second-straight Lone Star Conference regular-season and tournament championship. Terry was named the Lone Star Conference Defensive Player of the Year and Student-Athlete of the Year that season, as well as earning LSC Tournament MVP honors.

She also earned LSC Student-Athlete of the Year honors in 2007 and was twice named an All-Region selection by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America in 2004 and 2005.