Ellin McDougall was named the head women's soccer coach in February 2022 and will begin her second season at Suffolk in the fall of 2023.

McDougall became the fourth head coach in the Rams’ history and second female to lead the program. Suffolk marks her first collegiate head coaching role. 

In her first season, 2022, McDougall guided the Rams to a 4-9-3 overall mark and 1-6-2 in CCC contets. Hayley Long individually highlighted McDougall's first year iin Beantown as an All-CCC Third-Team honoree. The squad, meanwhile, earned SIlver Team Ethics and Sportsmanship Award from the United Soccer Coaches. 

Suffolk's true success in year one of the McDougall era came academically. The team collected United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award, while six student-athletes -- Alicia Bibi, Chelsea Fallon, Kylie Flynn, Grace Owens, Kylie Perron and Klaudia Rushi -- picked up College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District honors. 

McDougall heads to Boston after a four-year stint as an assistant coach at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). In Troy, as the lead assistant coach, she held numerous responsibilities including recruiting, practicing planning, game-day coordination, adjustments and implementation, player development, team building and social media.  

RPI compiled 18 wins and a dozen ties with McDougall on the coaching staff and made a Liberty League Tournament berth in 2019. She coached a pair of all-region All-Americans and nine All-Liberty League honorees on the pitch. In the classroom, she helped recruit 12 Liberty League All-Academic Team members. 

Prior to joining the Engineers, McDougall’s collegiate coaching career began at her alma mater, Mercyhurst in 2016. Over two seasons she was in charge of designing and implementing training sessions for goalkeepers and defenders, as well as the team’s strength & conditioning program.  

McDougall’s coaching resume includes various camps and clinics, as well as head coaching experience at the club level. She holds a U.S. Soccer Grassroots 11v11 Coaching License and was named to the EDP League’s “EDP Soccer 30 Promising Young Coaches Under 30” in April of 2020.  

As a player at Mercyhurst, she defended the Lakers’ net in 54 career games. She compiled a 23-26-3 record with a 1.954 goals-against average and .729 save percentage.  

A native of Granby, Connecticut, McDougall graduated Mercyhurst in 2016 as a double major in Business Competitive Intelligence and Sports Management. She earned a Master’s in Organizational Leadership with a concentration in Sports Leadership, also from Mercyhurst.