Coach Stuart Moran enters his third season as the head women’s soccer coach in 2026
The Ducks won their first conference championship since 2019 in 2025, upending Misericordia 3-0 in the MAC Freedom Championship. Stevens' win snapped the Cougars 46-game winning streak against teams in conference. The following week, the Ducks topped Virginia Wesleyan 2-0 in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament, their win tournament victory since 2021. Moran and his staff gained their second straight MAC Freedom Coaching Staff of the Year honor, and Moran guided Alana Odom to MAC Freedom Offensive Player of the Year honors.
In his first year at the helm, he helped lead Stevens to an 11-6-2 mark at the No. 2 seed in the MAC Freedom Tournament. The defense surrendered just 12 goals all season and conceded one marker during the MAC Freedom regular season.
The Scotland native arrives in Hoboken after a four-year stint at the University of Mount Saint Vincent. Moran spent four years as both a coach and an administrator at the University of Mount Saint Vincent. First arriving in Riverdale, New York in February 2020 as the ninth head coach of the Dolphins’ program, the squad compiled 33 victories and a .636 winning percentage, under his’s tutelage – the most of any prior regime (when the school was known as the College of Mount Saint Vincent). During his time as a Dolphin, the women’s soccer program collected 12 All-Skyline Conference accolades and secured the first conference championship in program history on Nov. 4, 2023. At the time of his hiring in 2020, Coach Moran was also appointed the athletic department’s compliance officer and concluded his tenure in Riverdale as an Associate Director of Athletics.
Prior to landing his first head coaching position, Coach Moran spent five years as an assistant coach spread across stops at Yale, Fairfield and St. John’s. He first entered the coaching ranks as a graduate assistant at the University of Bridgeport.
The Ducks head women’s soccer coach earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in sports promotion entertainment management from Northwood University in 2007, where he was a four-year member of the men’s soccer team and helped the NAIA school reach the national quarterfinals during his senior season. Coach Moran went on to complete his master’s degree from the University of Bridgeport in 2014.
