Marina Kelly enters her first season as an assistant coach for The University of Scranton women's soccer team in 2021.
Kelly joined the Royals program from Regis College, where since 2019 she served as a graduate assistant coach while receiving her master’s degree in education/student success from the school this past May.
While at Regis, Kelly assisted the Pride program in all facets, while also running the program’s social media accounts. During the 2019 season, Kelly helped Regis win eight games and qualify for the Great Northeast Athletic Conference playoffs. The team had its 2020 campaign canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Over the last three years, Kelly has also served as the head girls coach for Mass City FC, leading U10, U11, and U12 teams over the last three years. She also served as an assistant for the programs U14, U14, and U19 programs and organized and attended a trip for the U15 team to England during her time in the program.
Since Oct. 2020, Kelly also was the head coach for the Town of Scituate, Mass., where she organized clinics for Scituate Youth Soccer for grades 5-8.
Previously, Kelly coached at the high school level, serving as an assistant varsity and head JV girls soccer coach at Scituate High School in 2018 and as an assistant varsity/JV girls basketball coach at Whitman-Hanson High School from 2018 through 2021.
Kelly was also a U12-U15 head coach at Whitman-Hanson High School for two years (2016-2018) and kicked off her coaching career in 2017 when she was named the head coach of the Clarion River Valley Strikers in Clarion, PA, a position she held for one year.
Kelly joined the coaching ranks off a two-sport career at Clarion University of Pennslyvania, an institution she transferred to in 2015 from UMass-Boston.
In 2014 at UMass-Boston, Kelly earned Second Team All-LEC honors in soccer after leading the league with 11 assists to go along with nine goals for 29 total points. She also appeared in 10 games for the Beacon basketball team.
After transferring to Clarion, Kelly continued to play both sports.
In soccer, she appeared in 52 matches for the Golden Eagles, including 50 starts, in three seasons (2015-17), scoring nine goals, while adding seven assists for a career point total of 25. For the Clarion basketball team, she appeared in 47 games, while making 12 starts.
Kelly, went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in secondary education and social studies from Clarion in 2018.
