Chad Bennett returns to the Shippensburg University women’s soccer coaching staff in 2025 and will serve as a volunteer assistant. He will coach the team’s goalkeepers.
It will be Bennett’s seventh season on the coaching staff. From 1999-2003, Bennett was an assistant coach for both the SU men’s and women’s teams. He was also an assistant coach to the women’s team in 2009.
As a collegian, Bennett was a three-year starting goalkeeper for SU men’s soccer team who recorded 277 saves from 1996-1998. He is one of just five Raider goalkeepers in school history to earn All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) honors, as he was selected to the league’s Second Team in 1996 following a career-high 136 save season in which he posted a 1.46 goals-against average (GAA).
After Shippensburg, Bennett played professionally for the Reading Rage of the United Soccer League (USL) in 1999.
Other coaching experience includes work as an assistant to Warwick High School’s girls’ soccer team from 1999 to 2012 and three years as an EPYSA Olympic Development coach. He holds a NSCAA Goalkeeping Level 1 Diploma.
At Shippensburg, Bennett has served as the chair of the Department of Academic Engagement and Exploratory Studies for more than a decade. He is a recipient of the Shippensburg University Center for Excellence in Scholarship and Teaching (CFEST)’s Teaching Innovations in Pedagogy and Scholarship Award (TIPS Teaching Award) and the 2015 Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award.
During his time as the department’s director and chair, Bennett has secured more than one million dollars in grant funds, created the program’s lending library, and instituted the “ASP Super Star” Award during the Summer Bridge Program.
Bennett earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology from Shippensburg before completing his doctorate of education from Duquesne University in 2009.
