After an impressive debut as the Rutgers-Camden women’s soccer head coach in 2005, Tom Greenawalt led the Lady Raptors to another winning campaign in 2006, capped by a berth in the ECAC Metro Tournament semifinals.

        Greenawalt’s second Raptor team posted a 10-9-1 record, placed five players on the All-New Jersey Athletic Conference teams, collected a pair of NJAC Rookies of the Week and added an impressive national award and a regional academic honor. Freshman Kendyll Clayton was named to the very first d3kicks.com Team of the Week, earning the honor Sept. 5 as the new web site unveiled its first weekly honorees. Jenna Perez represented Rutgers-Camden on the annual Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Women’s Soccer Team.

        Senior Aubree McDermott was named to the All-NJAC Second Team, while the Raptors saw four players receive All-NJAC Honorable Mention: Jessica Leoni, Brittney Mancine, Katie O’Connor and Kelley Murphy. Two freshmen, Clayton and Kate Campbell, were named as the NJAC Rookie of the Week during the season.

        Overall, Greenawalt’s squad compiled a winning record against a tough schedule, including a 1-4 mark against teams who were mentioned in at least one of the national polls (d3kicks.com and the NCAA/adidas Division III Top 25) last season. The win was a 2-1 victory over Kean University (Sept. 23), a conference foe which twice received 23 votes toward the d3kicks.com Top 25 last season. One of the losses was a 3-0 setback against The College of New Jersey (Sept. 27), which went on to win the NJAC and finish second nationally.

        During the 2006 campaign, McDermott set the school record with eight points (three goals, two assists) against the College of St. Elizabeth (Oct. 7) and tied her own mark against New Jersey City (Oct. 25). O’Connor, meanwhile, became the program’s all-time leader in games played, ending her career with 79 appearances.

        During his first year at Rutgers-Camden, Greenawalt saw his Lady Raptors produce one of the top seasons in the program’s history. The 2005 Raptors notched a 12-8 mark, one win shy of the single-season program record set in 2003. They also posted a 5-4 record in New Jersey Athletic Conference play, only the second time the program posted a winning mark against NJAC competition. Anchored by a stingy defense, the Lady Raptors qualified for the NJAC playoffs for the third consecutive season.

        Greenawalt’s reputation as a defensive-minded coach was evident in the Raptors’ final statistics. The team allowed only 20 goals in its 20 games (1.00 goals-against average), while tying the 2003 single-season team record with 10 shutouts. The club posted four consecutive shutouts from Oct. 5-15, helping Therese Comella set the program’s consecutive-minutes shutout streak by a goalie at 409:20.

        Greenawalt took over the Rutgers-Camden program after three years of coaching soccer at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania. For two of those years, he coached both the women’s and the men’s programs at Albright, posting a combined 39-50-10 record. He took over the Lady Lions in 2002 and led them to an 8-10-1 record. It was a big improvement over the previous year’s 2-7 team that ended its season early due to a lack of players.

        In 2003, Greenawalt added duties as the Albright men’s coach, and once again led a fine turnaround. The Lion men went 7-11-1 after going 1-14-2 the previous season. The women, meanwhile, posted a 7-10-3 mark in 2003.

        During the 2004 fall season, the Albright College men were 4-13-2, while the women recorded an outstanding 13-6-3 record.

        A former Pennsylvania all-state scholastic soccer player, Greenawalt is the career leader in goals (68), assists (72) and points (208) at Muhlenberg High School. He went on to have a standout four-year career at Marshall University from 1994-97, earning numerous honors as a senior, including First Team All-Mid-American Conference, Academic All-MAC and All-Mid East Region Second Team. He was named MVP of the Virginia Classic Tournament as his team earned runner-up status, and he led the Thundering Herd with 17 points (eight goals, one assist).

     Greenawalt also was a Deans List student at Marshall and a member of the Southern Conference Honor Roll. He capped his career earning selection to Marshall’s 25th anniversary all-time men’s soccer team.

        Greenawalt graduated from Marshall in 1998 with a BA in Criminal Justice and Legal Studies. He started pursuing his Masters degree at Washington College, where he also served two seasons as a graduate assistant men’s soccer coach. He spent a year as the assistant women’s soccer coach at Haverford College in 2001 before earning the head women’s coaching job at Albright.

        Greenawalt spent six years with the Reading Rage soccer club, a Division I member of the United Soccer Leagues (USL). In addition to serving as the team captain, he was the head coach of the Girls and Boys Premier Youth Teams and the assistant director of the Rage’s summer youth camps.

        During the summer of 2005, Greenawalt joined the PDL’s South Jersey Barons, serving as the team captain. He also worked at the Nike Team Camp during the summer.

        In addition to his duties at Rutgers-Camden, Greenawalt works with the United Soccer Leagues as a member of the Mid-Atlantic Division ODP (Olympic Development Program) Scouting System. He serves as the Club ODP Scout for U-13 Girls.

        Greenawalt, who works as a high school disciplinarian in Philadelphia, lives in Ardmore, PA, with his wife Wendy and sons Tye Thomas (age 3) and Cam Marshall (age 1).