Joe Scachetti - Men's Soccer Coach - University of North Carolina Athletics

Joe Scachetti

Title:
Volunteer Assistant Coach
Phone:
919-962-0771

Joe Scachetti will serve his second season in 2017 as the volunteer assistant coach for the North Carolina men’s soccer program. In his first go-round in Chapel Hill the Tar Heels reached the 2016 NCAA College Cup and won the ACC’s Coastal Division.

Working primarily with the goalkeepers, Scachetti helped Tar Heel keeper James Pyle earn NSCAA Third Team All-Region and ACC Second Team honors in 2016.

Scachetti spent the 2015-16 school year as the goalkeeping coach for both the men’s and women’s programs at UNC Asheville, and was the recruiting coordinator for the Bulldog women’s program. During that time he was also the Director of Goalkeeping for Highlands Football Club.

He previously served as an assistant coach for two seasons at Whittier College, a Division III program in his native state of California, in 2013 and ’14.

Scachetti was the Goalkeeper Coach for LA Galaxy Pre-Academy and LA Galaxy South Bay, and coached at his alma mater, West Torrance High School, with the boys (assistant coach) and girls program (goalkeeper coach).

Scachetti played collegiately at UCLA and was a member of the 2008 and 2009 teams that won Pac 10 Championships, and ranked No. 1 in the country during his time with the Bruins.

Scachetti holds a NSCAA Level III Goalkeeper Coaching License and a USSF “E” License.

He earned a bachelor of arts in sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2013.