Women's Soccer
Aozasa, Margueritte
Margueritte Aozasa
- Title:
- Head Coach
- Email:
- wsoccer@athletics.ucla.edu
In just three years as head coach at UCLA, Margueritte Aozasa has won a national championship and two conference titles. In her first season in 2022, she made history by becoming the first rookie head coach and first woman of color ever to win the NCAA Division I Womenโs Soccer championship.
As UCLAโs head coach, Aozasa owns a 55-8-5 overall record and 27-3-3 conference record. She earned her 50th career victory in just her 60th game on Oct. 13, 2024.
Aozasa was hired in December 2021 as the sixth head coach in UCLA womenโs soccer history and promptly guided her team to the programโs second NCAA Championship and a school record-tying 22 victories while leading the United Soccer Coaches National Staff of the Year. The first-year head coach led UCLA to a No. 1 national ranking for the final nine weeks of the season, with the Bruins ascending to the top after a road sweep of No. 2 Duke and No. 1 North Carolina on Labor Day weekend. The Bruins began the year by winning their first 13 games, setting a new school record for best start to a season. After UCLA finished the regular season with a 17-2 record, Aozasa was voted the Pac-12 Coach of the Year, becoming the first rookie head coach ever to win the honor. Aozasa coached the 2022 Pac-12 Defender of the Year Lilly Reale, who went on to become UCLAโs third Honda Sport Award winner.
In 2023, Aozasa won her first conference team title and second consecutive Pac-12 Coach of the Year award, as the Bruins finished the season with a 16-2-1 record. During UCLAโs inaugural season in the Big Ten Conference in 2024, Aozasaโs Bruins ran through the conference tournament with three shutout victories, culminating in a 5-0 win over Rutgers in the championship final. The five runs scored were a Big Ten championship game record.ย
Producing professional players has also been a strong suit for Aozasa. A total of 20 Bruins coached by Aozasa are currently playing professionally, including nine players from the 2024 squad.
Aozasa has also coached at the U.S. Youth National Team level. Following the 2022 collegiate season, she joined the coaching staff of the U.S. Under-23 National Team as an assistant coach for a training camp in France in February 2023, and as the head coach of the U-23s at the Thorns Preseason Tournament in March 2023. In the June of 2024, she was an assistant coach for the U.S. U-20 team at the Concacaf Championships, as they qualified for the FIFA Under-20 World Cup.
As an assistant coach at Stanford from 2015-21, Aozasa coached the Cardinal to great success, including NCAA Championships in 2017 and 2019 and Pac-12 titles from 2015-19. The 2018 team also reached the College Cup. Stanfordโs record during Aozasaโs time on the Farm was 125-19-8, with the Cardinal posting a +318 goal differential (412 goals for, 94 goals against).
Two of her Stanford athletes won the Hermann Trophy in three consecutive years from 2017-2019 - Andi Sullivan (2017) and Catarina Macario (2018, 2019) - and four Cardinal players were selected as the No. 1 pick in the NWSL Draft โ Sullivan in 2018, Tierna Davidson in 2019, Sophia Smith in 2020 and Naomi Girma in 2022.
As a recruiter, Aozasa brought in multiple Top 5 recruiting classes, include the No. 2-ranked class of 2022. She coached six U.S. Womenโs National Team players through their collegiate careers on the Farm โ Sullivan, Macario, Davidson, Smith, Alana Cook and Jane Campbell. Additionally, Aozasa coached three players who played on Womenโs Champion League teams โ Macario (Olympique Lyonnais), Cook (PSG) and Kyra Carusa (HB Koge).
Aozasa and the Stanford coaching staff were honored as the 2016 NSCAA Pacific Region Staff of the Year, and Aozasa was selected to the United Soccer Coachesโ 30 Under 30 Class in 2018-19.
In addition to coaching at Stanford, Aozasa was the ECNL Head Coach for 10 years at MVLA Soccer Club, which is ranked by Top Drawer Soccer as the No. 6-ranked youth club in the country. Her 02 and 03 MVLA ECNL squads were Champions League teams with a combined 35 players on NCAA Division I rosters.
Aozasa was a four-year starter under head coach Jerry Smith at Santa Clara University from 2008-11, playing at midfield and center back and serving as team captain from 2010-11. A WCC All-Academic team member, she graduated from Santa Clara in 2012 with a major in psychology and minors in public health and Spanish. In 2020, she earned a Masters in Coaching and Athletic Administration from Concordia University, Irvine and received her U.S. Soccer โAโ Coaching License.
She is one of just four Asian American women currently serving as a head coach for a NCAA womenโs soccer team. Aozasa is married to Mykell Bates, who is an assistant coach for Angel City FC. They have a one year-old girl, Akari.
As UCLAโs head coach, Aozasa owns a 55-8-5 overall record and 27-3-3 conference record. She earned her 50th career victory in just her 60th game on Oct. 13, 2024.
Aozasa was hired in December 2021 as the sixth head coach in UCLA womenโs soccer history and promptly guided her team to the programโs second NCAA Championship and a school record-tying 22 victories while leading the United Soccer Coaches National Staff of the Year. The first-year head coach led UCLA to a No. 1 national ranking for the final nine weeks of the season, with the Bruins ascending to the top after a road sweep of No. 2 Duke and No. 1 North Carolina on Labor Day weekend. The Bruins began the year by winning their first 13 games, setting a new school record for best start to a season. After UCLA finished the regular season with a 17-2 record, Aozasa was voted the Pac-12 Coach of the Year, becoming the first rookie head coach ever to win the honor. Aozasa coached the 2022 Pac-12 Defender of the Year Lilly Reale, who went on to become UCLAโs third Honda Sport Award winner.
In 2023, Aozasa won her first conference team title and second consecutive Pac-12 Coach of the Year award, as the Bruins finished the season with a 16-2-1 record. During UCLAโs inaugural season in the Big Ten Conference in 2024, Aozasaโs Bruins ran through the conference tournament with three shutout victories, culminating in a 5-0 win over Rutgers in the championship final. The five runs scored were a Big Ten championship game record.ย
Producing professional players has also been a strong suit for Aozasa. A total of 20 Bruins coached by Aozasa are currently playing professionally, including nine players from the 2024 squad.
Aozasa has also coached at the U.S. Youth National Team level. Following the 2022 collegiate season, she joined the coaching staff of the U.S. Under-23 National Team as an assistant coach for a training camp in France in February 2023, and as the head coach of the U-23s at the Thorns Preseason Tournament in March 2023. In the June of 2024, she was an assistant coach for the U.S. U-20 team at the Concacaf Championships, as they qualified for the FIFA Under-20 World Cup.
As an assistant coach at Stanford from 2015-21, Aozasa coached the Cardinal to great success, including NCAA Championships in 2017 and 2019 and Pac-12 titles from 2015-19. The 2018 team also reached the College Cup. Stanfordโs record during Aozasaโs time on the Farm was 125-19-8, with the Cardinal posting a +318 goal differential (412 goals for, 94 goals against).
Two of her Stanford athletes won the Hermann Trophy in three consecutive years from 2017-2019 - Andi Sullivan (2017) and Catarina Macario (2018, 2019) - and four Cardinal players were selected as the No. 1 pick in the NWSL Draft โ Sullivan in 2018, Tierna Davidson in 2019, Sophia Smith in 2020 and Naomi Girma in 2022.
As a recruiter, Aozasa brought in multiple Top 5 recruiting classes, include the No. 2-ranked class of 2022. She coached six U.S. Womenโs National Team players through their collegiate careers on the Farm โ Sullivan, Macario, Davidson, Smith, Alana Cook and Jane Campbell. Additionally, Aozasa coached three players who played on Womenโs Champion League teams โ Macario (Olympique Lyonnais), Cook (PSG) and Kyra Carusa (HB Koge).
Aozasa and the Stanford coaching staff were honored as the 2016 NSCAA Pacific Region Staff of the Year, and Aozasa was selected to the United Soccer Coachesโ 30 Under 30 Class in 2018-19.
In addition to coaching at Stanford, Aozasa was the ECNL Head Coach for 10 years at MVLA Soccer Club, which is ranked by Top Drawer Soccer as the No. 6-ranked youth club in the country. Her 02 and 03 MVLA ECNL squads were Champions League teams with a combined 35 players on NCAA Division I rosters.
Aozasa was a four-year starter under head coach Jerry Smith at Santa Clara University from 2008-11, playing at midfield and center back and serving as team captain from 2010-11. A WCC All-Academic team member, she graduated from Santa Clara in 2012 with a major in psychology and minors in public health and Spanish. In 2020, she earned a Masters in Coaching and Athletic Administration from Concordia University, Irvine and received her U.S. Soccer โAโ Coaching License.
She is one of just four Asian American women currently serving as a head coach for a NCAA womenโs soccer team. Aozasa is married to Mykell Bates, who is an assistant coach for Angel City FC. They have a one year-old girl, Akari.
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