Jody Lingafeldt, a veteran with more than a decade of collegiate coaching experience, including five seasons at the University of California, Davis, was hired as the sixth head women's soccer coach in Colorado Mesa University's history in the spring of 2024.
In her first season at the helm in 2024, Lingafeldt guided the Mavericks to an outstanding debut, finishing the year with an overall record of 14-2-4 while going 11-1 in RMAC play. The team reached a winning streak as high as nine during the regular season while never losing at home, going 7-0-1. The Mavericks advanced to the NCAA Division II Women's Soccer Championship, where they stunned No. 4 seed Midwestern State 2-1 in the first round, scoring twice in under two minutes to overcome a 1-0 deficit. The team also earned the United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award, posting a remarkable 3.79 team GPA across 28 players.
In 2025, Lingafeldt was named RMAC Coach of the Year in just her second season leading the program. The Mavericks claimed the RMAC regular-season championship with a 9-0-2 record in conference play — the program's fifth regular-season title — earning the No. 1 seed in the RMAC Tournament. Colorado Mesa didnt surrender a goal during the conference schedule and had six players earn All-RMAC honors, highlighted by goalkeeper Keely Wieczorek, who was named RMAC Goalkeeper of the Year and First Team All-RMAC, joined on the First Team by Olivia Barrett, Kylie Wells, and Ally Wachtel. The Mavericks also earned their third consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance, extending the program's all-time tournament record to 5-5-1.
Previously, Lingafeldt had been the Aggies' top assistant coach at the NCAA Division I level since 2019 as an inaugural member of Tracy Joyner's coaching staff and also has successful experience at the Division II level after serving in similar roles at Dominican University and Sonoma State University in Northern California for the previous five seasons. Additionally, Lingafeldt is on staff as a head coach with the Olympic Development Program (ODP) West Region Girls, as well as the USYS (US Youth Soccer) National ODP Coaching staff. She holds her USSF (U.S. Soccer Federation) "B" Coaching License.
Lingafeldt was a lead recruiter at all three of her prior institutions and helped lead the UC Davis Aggies to their best seasons in their Division I history. In 2022, they defeated both a nationally ranked opponent (Santa Clara) and a Pac-12 opponent (Oregon State) for the first time in program history and had their best regular season finish in the Big West Conference standings, placing second. The success was also prevalent in 2021 and 2023, when the Aggies won ten games in both seasons while reaching the Big West Tournament for the second straight year in 2023. In her five seasons, the Aggies had seven first team and 17 overall All-Big West selections. In 2023, Leslie Fregoso was named as the Big West's Midfielder of the Year and to the United Soccer Coaches' Second Team All-West Region squad. Hamm was also named as the 2023 Big West Conference Coach of the Year.
In addition to her collegiate and ODP experience, Lingafeldt has more than 20 years of coaching experience at some of the top elite youth clubs in Northern California. She started her coaching career as an assistant coach at Sonoma State, her alma mater, after playing at Sacramento State and Sonoma State as a student-athlete. As the recruiting coordinator at Dominican, she helped bring in the most elite recruiting class in the Penguins' history, which resulted in their highest wins total since joining the Division II level in 2011. On top of her duties as assistant coach, developing training sessions and leading film analysis, Lingafeldt also directed the Penguins' academic support program that produced a program team GPA record of 3.51 at the end of the 2018 season.
Prior to Dominican, she spent three seasons (2014-16) as the assistant coach at Sonoma State in what was her second stint with the Seawolves. In that time, she helped lead the Rohnert Park, California institution to a pair of NCAA Division II Tournament appearances, including a quarterfinal bid as well as a 2015 CCAA title. They also went 12-3-3 overall and 10-1-1 in CCAA play in 2016, which ended in a second consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament. She also mentored seven United Soccer Coaches All-Americans and 15 All-CCAA selections in those three seasons.
Academically, Lingafeldt holds a master's degree in coaching and athletic administration from Concordia University Irvine and a bachelor's degree in kinesiology and athletic training from Sonoma State. She also holds a United States Soccer Federation "B" coaching license and a National Soccer Coaches Association of America Advanced National Diploma.
