Jennifer DePrez Spiker
'94
At Rochester:
- A decorated soccer player who reached the NCAA National Championship game and Regional finals with the team during her career
- Named to the NCAA All-Tournament Team in 1991
- Earned All-Conference honors in 1991 and 1993
- Two-time New York State All-State selection and an All-Northeast Region athlete
- Rochester Press-Radio Club, Female College Athlete of the Year Runner-up in 1991
- Came to Rochester after playing at Monroe Community College earning a number of accolades there, including a National Championship, National Player of the Year, and All-American honors
Post-Graduate:
- Continued her playing career with the USWISL Rochester Ravens Semi-Professional Team in their inaugural season
- Served as an assistant soccer coach at Rochester for a year before going on to West Virginia Wesleyan College in that same role
- Following a season there, Spiker spent the next 11 years on staff at West Virginia University
- Received the AFLAC National Assistant Coach of the Year Award in 2003
- Has also coached on the Region 1 staff of the Olympic Development Program
- Has been inducted into the Hilton Central High School Sports Hall of Fame as well as the Monroe Community College Sports Hall of Fam.
- Earned her Master’s from West Virginia University in 2004
- Currently a volunteer assistant coach with the Army Women's Soccer program
- She and her husband Zach reside in West Point, New York on the campus of the United States Military Academy. They have three children, Charlie, Tucker and Henry.