Lisa Mann - Head Coach - Staff Directory

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Lisa Mann

Title:
Head Coach
Email:
Alma Mater:
Martin Methodist '09 // William Carey '13
Experience:
3rd Season
Hometown:
Newcastle, England

Lisa Mann enters her third season as the UAB women’s soccer head coach in the 2025 season.

For Mann’s second season with the Blazers, she had a 7-5-5 overall record and a 4-2-4 conference record. She claimed her first SEC win when UAB shutout Ole Miss 1-0. Mann guided the team to go undefeated at home for the first time in program history.

This past season she helped guided four players to earn several conference honors. Abbey Burns was selected to the AAC All-Conference First Team, earned AAC Offensive Player of the Week, and Honorable Mention. Freshman Louise Larson was named to the AAC All-Freshman Team, while Jette Zimmer earned a spot on the AAC All-Conference Second Team and claimed an Honorable Mention. Anika Toth claimed Goalkeeper of the Week and Honorable Mention twice.

In 2023, Mann’s first season, she guided UAB to a 6-7-5 overall record and was 2-3-4 in conference play, which was the first season the Blazers were in the American Athletic Conference. Mann guided Asha Zuniga to AAC Second Team and Abby Graeser AAC All-Rookie Team. She also helped developed Eve Beyer and Toth to AAC Goalkeeper of the week, while Avery Berryman earned AAC Rookie of the Week and Carlyn Presley was named to the AAC Honor Roll.

Mann helped lead Zuniga to play professionally with Knattspyrnudeild HK (Iceland) after she graduated from UAB, along with Toth who signed with Halifax Tides FC.

Mann arrives in the Magic City after spending the last four seasons as the head coach at West Virginia State University where she led the Yellow Jackets to a 40-15-4 record, a Mountain East Conference championship, and a berth in the NCAA tournament.

She started the program at West Virginia State in 2019, leading the Yellow Jackets to a 10-1-0 record. West Virginia State officially joined the MEC and finished third during the Covid shortened 2020 season. In WVS’s first full NCAA season in 2021, Mann led the team to 11 victories and a No. 9 ranking in the NCAA Atlantic Region. This past season, Mann guided the Yellow Jackets to a 17-3-2 overall record, the MEC South Division title going 13-1-2 and a berth in the NCAA Regional Semifinal round.

Prior to taking the reigns at West Virginia State, Mann was an assistant coach at Louisiana for three seasons (2016-18).

Mann’s coaching other experience includes head coach at NCAA Division II Spring Hill College, head coach at Presbyterian Christian High School (Miss.), assistant coach at William Carey University, and head coach at Giles County High School (Tenn.). She also has extensive experience coaching club teams in Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana.

A native of Newcastle, England, Mann played collegiately at Martin Methodist College in Pulaski, Tenn., where she helped the RedHawks to an overall record of 81-10-3. MMC claimed four consecutive TransSouth Conference titles (2005-08), two NAIA regional championships and a pair of NAIA national titles (2005, 2007).

While at MMC, she was a two-time, first-team All-Conference selection, and a second-team All-America performer as a senior. Mann was the Region XI Player of the Year and was named to the first-team NAIA All-America squad as a junior in 2007. Both national championship teams at MMC were inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in 2015.

Mann received a B.S. in Physical Education in 2009 from Martin Methodist and a master’s degree in Counseling/Psychology in 2013 from William Carey.