Overall Record: 38-34-3

Jim Stapleton enters his sixth season at the helm of the Massasoit women’s soccer program in 2019.

The 2015 Region 21 Coach of the Year has guided 23 All-Region honorees, six National Player of the Week selections along with advancing to the Region 21 Championship in back-to-back seasons in 2014 and 2015.

In 2017, the Warriors fell in the Region 21 Semifinals, coming one game short of reaching the conference finals. Stapleton saw five student-athletes garner All-Region 21 recognition, with sophomore Laura Nieske and freshman Alex Santos earning spots on the first-team. 

In his third year, Stapleton coached sophomore forward Shelby Sprague to net a region-high 30 goals, ranking fourth in the nation as Massasoit averaged 3.63 goals per game.

Over his four seasons on the soccer sidelines in Brockton, Stapleton’s squads have been successful both offensively and defensively. Over that span, the Warriors have averaged 3.61 goals per game and 21 of the 30 victories have been shutouts. 

No stranger to Massasoit Athletics, Stapleton will be entering his 18th season as the men’s basketball head coach, having captured a school record 258 career victories. In addition, Stapleton also served as the women’s soccer assistant coach during the 2013 season.

Known for his coaching experience on the hardwood since 2001 with the Warriors, Stapleton has 12 years of coaching soccer at the high school ranks.

Stapleton’s soccer-coaching career started at Groveton High School (Groveton, N.H.) in 1988 as an assistant boys’ soccer coach. After one season, he served as an assistant at Walpole High School from 1989-1993 for the girl’s team.

Stapleton went on to spend three seasons, from 1994-97, as the head coach of the North Attleboro boys’ team and was named Sun Chronicle Coach of the Year in 1995. During his tenure at North Attleboro, the team made the MIAA State Playoffs three times as Stapleton inherited a program that had only made postseason play once in school history prior to his arrival.

He later went on to be the head coach of the Stoughton High School girls’ soccer squad from 1998-2000.

Over the last 10-plus years, Stapleton has been around the game of soccer at the youth, club and high school levels due to his two children, Tess and David. Tess played two years at UMass-Dartmouth (2011-12) and David enters his redshirt-junior season as a soccer player at Curry College.

A Brockton native, Stapleton teaches eighth grade history at South Middle School.