Matt Mott completed his third season as the head soccer coach at the University of Oklahoma in the fall of 2025.

Mott has recruited and coached six All-Americans, 20 all-region selections, 27 all-conference recipients, one SEC Freshman of the Year, seven all-freshman team members and 26 conference players-of-the-week throughout his 16-year head coaching career. Six of Mott’s athletes have gone on to be selected in the National Women’s Soccer League amateur draft.

His clubs have made one NCAA Sweet Sixteen, six NCAA Tournament appearances and 11 conference tournament appearances. At the NCAA Tournament, Mott has advanced past the first round in four of his six trips, owning a 3-5-4 career postseason mark with a 3-1 record in PKs.

Mott’s work with goalkeepers has produced three SEC Goalkeeper of the Year honors, each of which were earned by future NWSL fourth-round pick and Ole Miss career clean sheet leader Ashley Orkus. His back lines and keepers have generated 99 clean sheets, posting at least eight shutouts in five of his 15 seasons while posting a save percentage of 76% or better eight times.

Academic success has long been a pillar of Mott’s programs. Across his 15 years as a head coach, Mott has guided his student-athletes to earn five COSIDA/CSC Academic All-America honors, 26 academic all-district selections and a whopping 281 academic all-conference and honor roll recipients. Eight of his 13 seasons at Ole Miss saw at least 20 athletes earn SEC Academic Honor Roll status including five consecutive seasons from 2017 to 2021. In his first season at Oklahoma, a program-record six Sooners earned CSC Academic All-District accolades while 13 earned Academic All-Big 12 notice, second-most in program history.

Third Season - 2025
Mott and the Sooners made the program's first trip to the SEC Tournament in 2026, advancing to the conference's postseason tournament in Pensacola. The Sooners earned league wins against Florida, at Alabama and Texas, while also picking up a key draw against No. 4 Tennessee among others. OU reached 10 wins in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 2016 and 2017, taking down No. 22 Oklahoma State for the program's first win against a ranked teams since 2022. The win helped propel the Sooners to a 7-0-1 record in non-conference play, the Sooners' first undefeated record through non-con in program history. Oklahoma's hot start earned OU a national ranking for the first time since 2017, while their four consecutive weeks in the national rankings set a program record. A high-powered stretch saw OU score four goals in four consecutive games to start the year, aiding in OU's program record 116 points. Oklahoma finished with 38 goals and 40 assists, matching previous program records. OU converted five penalty kicks, notching a new program record while season attendance (14,317) and single game attendance records (3,211 vs. East Texas A&M Aug. 21) were set. The record crowds saw OU tie a program record for home wins in a season (8), while OU's four losses were the fewest in program history.

Oklahoma debuted in the SEC weekly honors listings and all-conference team with Caroline Duffy (Third Team All-SEC), Riley Brown (Third Team All-SEC) and Ally Laccinole (All-Freshman) making the SEC all-league squads. Duffy was twice named SEC Defensive Player of the Week, while Laccinole was named SEC Freshman of the Week following the opening week of the season, the first SEC weekly honors for OU. Laccinole also garnered a national nod, being named to the Top Drawer Soccer Top 100 Freshman Midseason List. On the offensive side of the ball, Naomi Clark started her OU career with consecutive braces, being named to the Top Drawer Soccer Team of the Week. Alexis Washington completed her stellar OU career with a five-assist campaign, bringing her to a program record 23. After arriving from Ole Miss, Kayla Keefer impressed in her first season in Norman, leading the team in points with 22 while tying the program single game points record with five against Omaha Sept. 7.

Second Season - 2024
The Sooners reached double-digit wins in 2024 during Mott's second season leading the Sooners, the first double-digit victory season since the 2016 campaign. Mott reached 150 career victories with a 4-1 win against Oral Roberts Aug. 25, while another milestone came Sept. 22 when he coached the Sooners to a 2-1 win at Texas A&M for the program's first-ever SEC victory. Oklahoma finished the season on a high note, winning the last two league games with a 4-1 win against Ole Miss and a 1-0 victory against Florida in Gainesville.

The Oklahoma attack was record setting in 2024, with the Sooners scoring a program single season-record 38 times. The Oklahoma fans showed out for the high-scoring Sooners, with over 12,000 fans making their way to John Crain Field en route to an OU all-time season attendance record. The honors and records continued at the individual level as Leonie Weber and Cailey England both set individual career records. Weber finished her OU career with a record 19 assists and five penalty kick goals, while England set program records with 92 starts and 7,786 minutes played. Ella Pappas was tabbed ot the TopDrawerSoccer Women's Team of the Week after contributing four goals in OU's 15-goal weekend. Six Sooners earned CSC Academic All-District honors in the postseason, while Alexis Washington earned a spot on the United Soccer Coaches All-Southeast Region Team.

First Season - 2023
Oklahoma produced an 8-10-2 mark in Mott’s first season at the helm, earning 11 points in conference play (3-5-2) to finish tied for ninth in the Big 12 table. OU took significant steps forward possessing and creating in the attacking third, scoring the seventh-most goals per match (1.70) in the Big 12 on the league’s third-most shots on target per match (7.00). The Sooners improved their shot-on-target percentage by nearly 2%, placing 47.5% of their shots on frame. Oklahoma’s creativity under Mott shined as OU generated its most assists (30) since the 2005 season.

Defensively, Oklahoma’s back line limited opponents to a program-record 10.35 shots against per match on its way to recording five clean sheets. OU’s five shutouts marked the program’s most since 2016. The Sooners also dramatically reduced their cards received, taking just 14 yellows and zero reds after receiving 38 and two respectively the season prior.

The 2023 Sooners advanced past the Big 12 tournament’s opening round for just the sixth time in program history, defeating Oklahoma State in the first round. OU earned a 2-0 result over Texas during the regular season, its first win over the Longhorns in regulation since 2005. Graduate forward Emma Hawkins was named Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week on Aug. 23, becoming the first Sooner to earn a weekly honor since 2021, and became the only OU athlete to record two career hat tricks with three-goal efforts vs. Tulsa and Murray State.

University of Oklahoma Vice President and Director of Athletics Joe Castiglione announced in April 2023 Matt Mott as OU’s head soccer coach. Mott’s appointment at OU followed a highly successful run the last 13 seasons as head coach at Ole Miss.

Mott coached the Rebels to a 139-97-32 (.578) record and to six of the program’s 10 all-time NCAA Tournament appearances, including four of the last six years. He led Ole Miss to a winning record and to the SEC Tournament in 10 of the last 11 seasons, going 124-78-27 (.600) during the stretch.

Four of the Rebels’ six NCAA Tournament appearances under Mott resulted in at least one win, with the 2015 and 2020 squads advancing to the Sweet 16. Eleven of his 13 teams featured at least two players who each scored at least six goals in a season.

Mott coached his Ole Miss players to six All-America honors, 20 all-region awards, 25 All-SEC laurels, six SEC All-Freshman picks and five Academic All-America selections, and had five players drafted into the NWSL professional ranks. He has produced some of Ole Miss’s best all-time talent, including the top three scorers in program history in CeCe Kizer (48 goals from 2015-18), Channing Foster (44 goals from 2017-21) and Rafaelle Souza (44 goals from 2011-13), as well as the school’s all-time shutouts leader, goalkeeper Ashley Orkus (29 shutouts from 2019-22).

Mott led the Rebels to winning records each of the last six seasons and to double-digit victories in six of the last seven campaigns. His 2022 squad began the season with a 9-0-2 record, good for the best 11-game start in program history.

Before becoming just the second Ole Miss head coach in program history, Mott was the top assistant at the University of Texas from 2006-10, helping the Longhorns to three NCAA Tournament appearances, including back-to-back Sweet 16s in 2006 and 2007. UT’s 2007 squad reached a No. 1 national ranking. Working with the goalkeepers and defenders, Mott helped guide Texas to a school record for lowest goals-against average (0.64) in 2008 and to several other defensive records during his tenure.

Prior to his Texas stint, Mott served as an assistant at Auburn from 1999-2005. He was promoted from assistant coach to assistant head coach to associate head coach during his time at the school and helped the Tigers to four consecutive SEC West titles and four straight NCAA Tournaments from 2001-04. He was named the AFLAC National Assistant Coach of the Year in 2002 when Auburn claimed the SEC overall championship. As Auburn’s recruiting coordinator, Mott helped the Tigers ink six nationally ranked signing classes and helped develop several players to All-SEC and All-America stature.

Mott also served as an assistant coach at UCF, his alma mater, for four years (1995-98). While Mott was in Orlando, the Golden Knights won three Trans Atlantic Athletic Conference championships and earned an NCAA Tournament berth in 1998.

Before UCF, Mott was the head women’s coach at NCAA Division III Hilbert College in Hamburg, N.Y., where he became the program’s all-time wins leader during his tenure from 1991-94. He was also the goalkeepers coach for the men’s team at Hilbert during that time.

A Norwood, N.Y., native, Mott obtained a bachelor’s degree in general studies (minored in criminal justice) from UCF in 2000 and also earned an Associate of Science degree in 1994 from Erie Community College in Buffalo, N.Y. Before college, Mott spent four years in the U.S. Coast Guard where he played and coached with the Coast Guard’s select team in Portsmouth, Va.

Mott holds a National “B” Coaching License from the United States Soccer Federation. In addition to his college coaching positions, he has served as the goalkeepers coach for the USYSA Region III Olympic Development Program team since 2003.

Mott is married to the former Jennifer Swartz. They have two sons, Dean and Will, and a daughter, Tacie.

MATT MOTT'S YEAR-BY-YEAR HEAD COACHING RECORD
2010* 7-9-4
2011* 8-10-1
2012* 13-9-0 (SEC Tournament)
2013* 16-6-2 (SEC Tournament; NCAA Second Round)
2014* 8-6-5
2015* 14-5-4 (SEC Tournament; NCAA Sweet 16)
2016* 9-11-0 (SEC Tournament)
2017* 10-7-3 (SEC Tournament; NCAA First Round)
2018* 13-8-1 (SEC Tournament; NCAA Second Round)
2019* 10-7-3 (SEC Tournament)
2020* 10-6-2 (SEC Tournament; NCAA Third Round)
2021* 12-6-3 (SEC Tournament; NCAA First Round)
2022* 9-7-4 (SEC Tournament)
2023 8-10-2 (Big 12 Tournament)
2024 10-7-1
2025 10-5-4
Total   167-119-39

*at Ole Miss

Name	Title	Email Address
Matt Mott	Head Coach	mattmott@ou.edu
Richard Beebe	Assistant Coach	rbeebe@ou.edu
Jessica Hiskey	Assistant Coach	jkhiskey@ou.edu
Warren Russ	Assistant Coach
Georgia Russell	Director of Operations	gruss@ou.edu

Image	Name	Title	Email Address	Phone
	Zac Brouillette	Strength & Conditioning Coach	zbrulet@ou.edu
	Grace Baker	Athletic Trainer (Soccer)	grace.baker@ou.edu

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