Lindsay Massengale, a former professional soccer player and star defender at Clemson University, is in her third season as assistant women's soccer coach for the Huskies.
Massengale is reunited with NU head coach Tracey Leone, who was her head coach at Clemson when she lettered there from 1995-98. At Clemson, Massengale was a four-year starter as a midfielder and defender and scored five goals and had 10 assists for a total of 20 points. She was an All-ACC second team selection in 1997. Clemson advanced to the NCAA Tournament in all four years she played and advanced to the NCAA Final Eight in 1997.
Prior to joining Northeastern, Massengale was the head coach of the Mountain View/Los Altos Soccer Club’s Under-14 Hurricanes, Under-14 Cyclones and Under-11 Typhoons, where she scheduled all training sessions and games and develop youth players’ skills through individual and group clinics.
Massengale has 10 years of coaching experience at the Division I women’s soccer level, most recently spending four seasons as an assistant coach at Idaho State, where she helped lead the Bengals to the 2006 Big Sky championship and appearance in the NCAA College Cup. In addition to helping coach the team on the field, she was responsible for scheduling and travel, summer camps and the team’s strength & conditioning program. Massengale also has volunteer coaching experience at San Francisco, North Carolina and Clemson.
In addition to her coaching experience on the soccer field, Massengale has also been an experienced strength & conditioning coach. She was the head strength & conditioning coach at San Francisco from 2004-06, creating and implementing all programs for each of USF’s 17 varsity sports. She also spent 2002-03 at Mike Boyle Strength & Conditioning in Winchester, Mass., working with professional athletes from numerous organizations including the NHL, NBA, MLB, NFL and WNBA. She instructed athletes on speed and agility drills, conditioning and weight lifting.
Massengale has played on two professional women’s soccer teams. She played for the Boston Breakers of the Women’s United Soccer Association from 2001-03 and most recently played for FC Gold Pride of the Women’s Professional Soccer League in California’s Bay Area.
Massengale, a native of Yuba City, Calif., earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Health Science from Clemson in 2000. She also has completed graduate work in Physical Education and Athletic Administration at Idaho State.
