Nicole Veth is in his first 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.

Matthew Olson, Assistant Coach

Matthew Olson joins the Pacific Lutheran men's soccer program as goalkeepers coach. He has a wealth of soccer playing and coaching experience and possesses his U.S. Soccer Federation National 'A' License. Among his coaching experience, Olson served as an assistant coach at University of Washington from 1992-95 and in the spring of 2003-04, and was an assistant coach at Wake Forest University in 1997. He currently coaches for Emerald City FC and Eastside FC youth programs.

Olson played on a national championship team at Indiana University and later on a conference title squad at Wake Forest University, from where he graduated in 1991. His professional career included stops with D.C. United (1996 MLS Cup Winners), New England Revolution and NY/NJ Metrostars of Major League Soccer, and with Hampton Road Mariners and Carolina Dynamo of the A-League.