Nicole "Rusty" Veth is in her second season as an assistant coach with the PLU women's soccer team.

Veth completed a two-year Pacific Lutheran University playing career in 2006, participating in 19 matches and scoring one goal. Veth transferred to PLU from Highline CC in Des Moines where she was a starter and captain. Veth attended Olympic High School in Silverdale, where her family still resides.

She graduated from PLU with a bachelors degree in business administration. With her PLU education she plans to some day break into the restaurant industry and open a soccer-theme restaurant.

Veth is currently playing semi-pro soccer for the Tacoma Stars and plans to work her way up the ranks of collegiate coaching while working side jobs. She is also keeping an open mind about the possibility of further continuing her education in graduate school.

Jamie Giger, Assistant Coach

Jamie Giger brings collegiate head coaching experience to the Pacific Lutheran program, where she starts her first season as an assistant coach.

Giger served as head coach at Elmira (N.Y) College in 2007, but left there to return to her native Washington. Prior to coaching at Elmira, she coached at the college and youth levels, including spending two years as head girls coach at White River High School, her alma mater.

Giger played collegiate soccer at Portland State, where she was the team's offensive MVP and an All-Big Sky Conference selection in 2001. She earned her degree in recreation management from Central Washington University in 2006.

In addition to her coaching responsibilities, Giger runs a personal soccer training school and is the Puget Sound area manager for the Skyhawks soccer program.

Joe Jordan, Assistant Coach

Joe Jordan is in his first season as a Pacific Lutheran women's soccer assistant coach. Since 2000, Jordan has coached a number of club teams in the area, including his current involvement with age group teams in the Puyallup and Federal Way areas. He has been an assistant girls soccer coach at Fife High School, helping head coach (and former PLU player and graduate) Teri Shimoda lead the team to the 2007 state championship. He has earned a USSF National C coaching license.

Jordan graduated from Pacific Lutheran in 1998 and earned a health and fitness endorsement from Seattle Pacific University in 2007. He lives in Tacoma.