RYZER - Key Persons
Becca Moros announced the hiring of Brian Periman as an assistant coach for the 2021 season on July 16, 2021. Periman is a Tucson native and will coach goalkeepers.
Not only has Periman worked in college soccer, he has been a talent ID scout for the United States youth national teams from ages U14 to U18 with a focus on the central and west region of the country.
Periman most recently coached goalkeepers at North Texas, who went 7-3-1 last season. He coached Kelsey Brann, who allowed just eight goals in 10 matches with a goals against average of 0.77. Brann finished the season with five solo shutouts and was named to the C-USA All-Conference Third Team.
Prior to his time at North Texas, Periman was an assistant coach at New Mexico State, where he worked with the goalkeepers help to improve the goals against average form 2.51 in 2018 to a goal against average of 1.93 in 2019. He also coached at FIU and East Carolina before coaching at New Mexico State.
Lorraine Quinn was hired un July 2021 in advance of the 2021 season.
Quinn spent three seasons as an assistant coach at Texas State where she helped the Bobcats to two winning seasons, including an appearance in the Sun Belt Tournament Final back in 2018. Individually, she helped four student-athletes be named to the USC All-Region teams and nine to All-Sun-Belt Teams.
She helped coach Kaylee Davis, who became the first player in Texas State program history to sign a professional contract and was a USC All-Southeast Third Team selection.
Prior to her time at Texas State, Quinn coached at Army West Point for five seasons. She held the title of assistant coach for the first two years before being promoted to associate head coach the last three seasons.
She coached 12 All-Patriot League honorees in her time at West Point with Clare Shea being a three-time selection and a CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team pick in 2017. Eight players were Patriot League All-Academic selections as well.
Quinn coached at William & Mary in 2012 where the Tribe won the CAA regular season title in her line year at William & Mary.
She also coached in the United Kingdom for a year as an assistant at Durham University, where she earned her master's degree in business management.
An outstanding midfielder at Duke, Quinn garnered All-America honors in 2007, was a three-time All-ACC selection, a two-time All-Southeast Region pick and was named to the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List her senior season. She would go on to score match-winning goals against Radford and Virginia in the 2007 NCAA College Cup.
Quinn closed out her collegiate career ranking first in matches played (91) and second in matches started (88). She excelled in the classroom as well, being named to the ACC All-Academic Team in 2007 and 2008, to the ACC Honor Roll and would go on to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology.
She was also a member of the United States Under-23 National Team that competed at the 2008 Nordic Cup that posted a 3-0 win over Germany in the championship match.