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Leadership of the NSCAA Goalkeeping Institute has changed hands. The NSCAA Board of Directors has approved the selection of Tony DiCicco to succeed Tony Waiters, who helped create the Institute and served as its director since its inception.

“The NSCAA and its member coaches are deeply indebted to Tony Waiters for his tireless efforts with the Goalkeeping Institute,” said NSCAA Director of Coaching Jeff Tipping. “He has been an invaluable member of our Academy staff. Tony DiCicco’s credentials are unquestioned, and we are confident that he will continue the excellence that was the hallmark of Tony Waiter’s tenure as director of the Institute.”

DiCicco formerly served as head coach for the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team. During a five-year stint that ran from 1994 until 1999, he compiled an overall record of 103-8-8, giving him the best winning percentage of any U.S. National Team coach. Along the way his teams completed a unique double by winning the gold medal at the 1996 Olympics and the 1999 Women’s World Championship. He also led his team to five consecutive U.S. Cup titles, the 1998 Pan American Games gold medal and a third-place finish at the 1995 Women’s World Championship. He was an assistant coach for the 1991 U.S. Women’s National Team, which won the first Women’s World Championship, and spent two years as an assistant for the U.S. Men’s U-20 National Team.

The former commissioner of the WUSA, DiCicco was an All-American goalkeeper at Springfield (MA) College and had a distinguished professional career in the American Soccer League (ASL) with the Connecticut Wildcats and Rhode Island Oceaneers. He played on the U.S. Men’s National Team in 1973.