Women's Soccer
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Alma Mater:
- Utah, '15
The Bruinsโ 13-0 start to the 2022 season set a new program record, and they went on to tie a school record with 22 victories. Poletto and the Bruin staff earned National and Pacific Region Staff of the Year honors by the United Soccer Coaches. In 2023, the Bruins won the Pac-12 Championship with a 10-0-1 league record. During UCLAโs inaugural season in the Big Ten Conference in 2024, the Bruins won the conference tournament with three shutout victories and a Big Ten record five goals in the championship match
Poletto served as the goalkeeper coach at Missouri (2019-21) and at Boston University (2017-18). In 2021, she helped lead Missouri to a fifth-place finish in the SEC, an improvement of nine spots from the previous year. At BU, the Terriers won the Patriot League in 2018, finishing with an 11-7-4 record and an unbeaten 7-0-2 mark in league play. Poletto was instrumental in guiding the goalkeeping unit to a combined 11 shutouts in 2018. In her first season at BU, her goalkeepers posted a then-record 10 shutouts as the Terriers finished with a 10-8-3 record and reached the Patriot League Tournament semifinals. Under Polettoโs tutelage, BU surrendered just 0.86 goals per game and the goalkeepers combined for a .798 save percentage.
After injuries cut her playing career short, Poletto turned to coaching, serving for three seasons as an undergraduate assistant coach at the University of Utah and then a volunteer assistant coach in 2016, when she improved her unitโs goals against average from 1.21 to 0.65 with 10 shutouts and a .860 save percentage.
A native of Englewood, Colo., Poletto holds a USSF โBโ license and served as an instructor for the USSF โEโ licenses. She graduated cum laude from Utah in 2015 with a degree in communications and a minor in psychology and completed her Masterโs degree in sports psychology in the spring of 2017. She and her wife Dawn Malone reside in Redondo Beach.ย ย
