Lauren Reilly is a former collegiate and professional soccer player who is currently in her second season as the assistant coach of the women’s soccer team, after joining the team in the spring of 2019. Reilly specializes in team/individual technical training and soccer-specific strength and conditioning.
She attended Fairfield University in Connecticut, a Division I school, where she served as team captain and was a multi-time First Team All-MAAC & NSCAA All-Northeastern Region Team honoree during her collegiate career. Following her graduation from Fairfield in 2013, she played for the Boston Breakers Reserves Team and the New England Mutiny of the NWSL & WPSL; and later went on to play professionally with First Division Team, Hovas Billdal, in Goteborg, Sweden.
Following her playing career, Reilly briefly returned to South Florida to accept the varsity girls soccer coaching position at her high school alma mater, St. Andrews. As a player she helped lead St. Andrews to a State Championship in 2007, and reach the State Finals in 2009.
After the conclusion of the 2014 high school season, Lauren moved to Los Angeles, Calif., where she worked as a technical trainer and fitness director for Beast Mode Soccer--a world-renown soccer training company specializing in individual technical development. While in California, she also served as the head coach of the Westside Breakers Girls U13 club team.
In 2015, Lauren returned to her hometown of Boca Raton, Fla., where she further expanded her coaching resume at the semi-professional, collegiate, club, and individual levels.
She served as an assistant coach and head strength and conditioning coach for Lynn University’s women’s soccer team during their 2015-2016 season; staying on to direct the team's strength and conditioning program during their 2016 and 2017 off seasons.
Lauren's on-field work continued at the club level with her position as Fitness Directer of Team Boca Soccer Club. As Fitness Director, Lauren coordinated and led weekly on-field fitness sessions (focusing on injury prevention and speed, agility, strength, and endurance development) with all of the club's girls’ teams (U10-U18) for their 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 club soccer seasons. During this time, Lauren also served as the assistant coach and head strength and conditioning coach for the club's semi-professional WPSL side, Team Boca Blast.
Beginning in May, 2019, Lauren assumed the head coaching job for the U-13 girls team at Rise FC, a competitive club in Jupiter, Fla. She is also the head of fitness and conditioning for the club—working with both the youth boys’ and girls’ teams.
Off the field, Lauren works as a personal trainer and sports performance coach--most recently at Impact Sports Performance in Boca Raton, where she specialized in soccer-specific strength and conditioning training and worked with male and female athletes at the youth, high school, collegiate, professional, and international levels.
Lauren has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Studies from Fairfield University, holds a USSF National Coaching License as well as a Beast Mode Soccer Technical Trainer certification, and is a NASM Certified Personal Trainer currently working toward attaining her CSCS certification later this year.
