University of Denver Athletics

Levi Rossi enters his fifth season with the women's program and his eighth season at the University of Denver overall in 2022, spending four seasons with the men's program prior to the 2018 campaign. 

2021: The Pioneers finished 13-6-2 and 8-0-1 in the Summit League to win the program's fourth-straight regular season title and their fifth in the last six years. Denver opened the season at 4-0-0 with two Power-5 victories at the University of Denver Soccer Stadium over Utah (Aug. 26) and Kansas State (Sept. 2). The Pios gruling schedule continued as they lost five of the next six before turning it around with seven-straight wins to start Summit League play. Denver drew 1-1 with South Dakota and defeated South Dakota State 2-0 on the final day of the season to clinch the No. 1 overall seed in the Summit League Tournament. The Pioneers won the semi in penalties before falling 4-2 in the final. Natalie Beckman was named the Summit League Offensive Player of the Year for the second-straight year and Devan McSwain was named the Summit League Defensive Player of the Year. Hooker earned his 13th coach of the year honor. 

2020 (delayed to spring of 2021 by COVID-19): The pandemic brought with it a unique season as after an extra time loss to Colorado in the season opener in February, Denver played a 16-match Summit League double round robin schedule, playing each team twice on the same weekend at the same site. Denver finished 14-1-1 in Summit League play to claim the regular season title. The Pioneers then completed the Summit League double with a 2-0 win over South Dakota and a 3-0 win at Omaha to claim a second trophy. Denver then went on to win its first NCAA Tournament game since 2012 when the Pioneers came from a goal down to beat Loyola Chicago 3-1. DU would go on to lose to No. 2 North Carolina 2-0 in the second round. Natalie Beckman was named the Summit League Offensive Player of the Year, leading the country in assists with 14 and finishing second in the country in points with 34. 

2019: In the first year without the Colorado Cup since the competition began in 2011, Denver opened the season with a 3-0-1 homestand that included a 3-0 win over [24/11] Texas at the University of Denver Soccer Stadium. After losing its next four matches, including three by one goal, Denver finished the campaign 12 matches unbeaten. After drawing at South Dakota State 1-1 in the Summit League Final, the Pioneers lost 4-2 on penalties.

2018: Denver's 2018 women's campaign saw the Pioneers win both the Summit League regular season title and the Summit League Tournament title for the first time since the Pioneers first year in the league in 2013. A young Pioneers squad peaked at the end of the season, winning 10 of their last 11 matches heading into the 2019 NCAA Tournament. Three freshmen scored in the league semifinals against North Dakota State, while freshman Cameron MacMillan turned in her second multi-goal game in the Summit League Final, a 4-0 win over Omaha. Freshman Natalie Beckman finished 21st in the country in assists with nine, while junior keeper Brittany Wilson finished 12th in the country in cleansheets with 10. 

2017: Denver picked up right where it left off in 2016 in the opening weekend, knocking off two ranked teams at the University of Denver Soccer Stadium in Florida Gulf Coast and Akron. Following the opening weekend, the Pioneers dropped four of the next six. Denver split the next four matches, including a 3-1 win at Saint Louis before going unbeaten in the Pioneers' final seven matches of the campaign. Denver finished a perfect 5-0-0 in the Summit League, and earned the program's third result at New Mexico on Oct. 25. 

Denver defeated Eastern Illinois 1-0 in the Summit League Semifinals, before drawing Omaha 1-1 in the Summit League Final. Denver lost the final in an 11-round penalty kick shootout, being outscored by the home side 9-8 from the spot. 

2016: Rossi and the Pioneers staff earned National Coaching Staff of the Year honors in 2016 after leading the program to its first College Cup in program history following a 1-0 win over [3] Clemson in the national quarterfinals. The Pioneers finished in the top 10 in the country in seven statistical catagories in 2016: 10th in goals (40), third in goals against average (0.52), third in shutout percentage (0.58), second in winning percentage (0.896), seventh in assists per game (2.0), fourth in total assists (48) and fifth in total points (128). Rossi and the Pioneers broke the program record for consecutive unbeaten matches with 23 in 2016, and became the first program to finish consecutive regular seasons unbeaten since Clemson in 1977-78. 

2015: The Pioneers set new DI school marks in shutouts (12), consecutive shutouts (7), consecutive scoreless minutes (797) and consecutive unbeaten matches (18). 

DU reached new heights in 2015, finishing the regular season as the only unbeaten team in the country at 15-0-3, and earned a first round bye and postseason home game for the first time in the program's history. The Pioneers spent seven-straight weeks in the top-10 of the National Soccer Coaches' Association of America poll, including two at No. 7, the highest ranking in the program's history. 

2014: Rossi spent the 2014 season as the team's volunteer assistant coach, a campaign that saw the Pioneers win their second-straight regular season and league tournament titles, booking the program's second-straight trip to the NCAA Tournament.

Playing Career: Levi Rossi came to Denver in 2014 after a standout career at the University of New Mexico where he played both forward and midfield. He was one of the most durable Lobos during his career as well as one of the most academically decorated players in New Mexico soccer history. A Denver native, Rossi played his high school soccer at Regis Jesuit, helping leading the Red Raiders to the state finals in 2008.