Joe Scachetti - Women's Soccer Coach - Colorado State Athletics

Joe Scachetti

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
joe.scachetti@Colostate.edu
Phone:
(310) 947-1723

Joseph Scachetti was named assistant coach as part of Bill Hempen's coaching staff in February 2020.

Scachetti comes to Fort Collins after one season at Warren Wilson College where he was the head men's soccer coach and the Athletics Crew Supervisor for the Owls. After inheriting the team with five returning players, Scachetti recruited 13 student-athletes to fulfill the roster, including USCAA All-American Second Teamer Will Feehan. He helped guide the Owls to its first national ranking in several years, ending the season as the No. 15 team in USCAA Division II.

As the head coach, Scachetti developed the schedule for the 2019 and 2020 seasons, hired a staff, maintained the program's budget, designed the training sessions, and implemented the team's core values and culture.

Prior to his time with the Owls, Scachetti spent three seasons from June 2016 to January 2019 as a men's assistant coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With the Tar Heels, he designed technical and tactical practices and drills for the team and goalkeepers. Specifically, Scachetti mentored keepers James Pyle and Alec Smir in the net. Pyle earned first team All-ACC in 2018 with a 0.52 GAA. In 2016, Pyle was named third team All-ACC with a 0.45 GAA – the third-lowest mark in school history. In between, Smir recorded a 0.69 GAA in 2017. During his time with the Tar Heels, UNC went 45-11-6 with trips to the NCAA College Cup Final in 2016 and 2017, while also reaching the 2018 ACC Championship Final.

Off the field at Chapel Hill, Scachetti was responsible for the program's operations, community involvement, aiding in marketing campaigns and held the Treasurer position on the UNC Soccer Board.
Before joining UNC at Chapel Hill, Scachetti was at another UNC affiliate, UNC at Asheville, for about a year from June 2015 to May 2016 in an assistant role with the men and women's soccer teams.
Scachetti got his start in collegiate coaching at Whittier College in California. From April 2013 to May 2015, he worked as the assistant to the women's team in addition to teaching an indoor soccer undergraduate course.

Outside of collegiate athletics, Scachetti has been involved in soccer in a multitude of ways. Most recently, he has been a youth coach for Triangle United Soccer Association based out of Chapel Hill. The last club team he was associated with was Highland FC during his time in Asheville, N.C. During college in Los Angeles, he helped with LA Galaxy Goalkeepers and Pre-Academy Goalkeepers, and West Torrance High School.

Scachetti earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology at University of California Los Angeles in June 2013. He played soccer on scholarship for one season with the Bruins.

The Torrance, California native attended West Torrance High School, graduating in 2007. In his high school career, he lettered one year under coach Mike Shimizu. Like many, he skipped his senior season to play in the U.S. Soccer National Academy League. He was named his team's Defensive MVP in 2007 after posting a GAA of 0.92 with 12 shutouts. The year prior, he also garnered the defensive MVP of his team to go along with team captain. As a freshman, he earned the Most Inspirational Award winner. Additionally, Scachetti participated in the 2007 adidas ESP camp and played club soccer for Irvine Strikers, leading his team to the finals of the 2007 Surf Cup where he was the goalkeeping MVP and the 2007 National State Cup.

Scachetti has two older sisters, Gina and Renee, who both played Division I college. He lives in Fort Collins, Colo.