Megan Forester
Assistant Coach

Megan Forester comes to the Golden Eagles after spending the last year as a volunteer assistant with Vanderbilt University while working on her master's degree at Lipscomb. At Vanderbilt, she assisted the coaches in day-to-day activities including budgeting and preparing training.
 
Forester also coached a U10 Girls club team while also providing private instruction as a private trainer. She is also a first-year member of the Mississippi Olympic Development Program Coaching Staff.
 
Forester was a standout player at Vanderbilt where she was a four-year letterwinner. While there, she earned first Team All-SEC as a senior, third-team All-Region and received the SEC Community Service Award. Forester was voted her team's captain in 2008 and 2009. She finished her career with six goals, 11 assists and 23 points while playing in 73 games.
 
The Hendersonville, Tenn., native was a NSCAA High School All-American in 2005 while earning Middle Tennessee Division II Player of the Year in 2005 and 2003 for helping lead the Pope John Paul II Knights to the DII Championships. She was an all-State midfielder in 2003, 2004, and 2005. Her high school ranked No. 1 in the NSCAA/Adidas national high school rankings in 2005. She was named the Gallatin News Examiner's 2005 County Player of the Year and The Tennessean's 2005 Player of the Year.
 
Forester received her bachelor's degree in Human and Organizational Development in 2010. She is the daughter of Michael and Robin Forester.

Holly Cox
Assistant Coach

Holly Cox begins her second season of coaching after spending the previous five years between the pipes for Southern Miss.  In her first season mentoring the goalkeepers, Southern Miss keeper Hannah Vanderboegh had the seventh-most saves all-time in a season with 71 and tied a school record with 16 saves in a game at Colorado College.

She is also a first-year member of the Mississippi Olympic Development Program Coaching Staff, working with the top female players in the state to achieve their soccer goals. Cox also spends her time tutoring youth goalkeepers and position players in the greater Hattiesburg area while maintaining her role as a member of the Golden Eagle coaching staff. Her knowledge of the game is a resource utilized by many of the premier camps in the Pine Belt region.

As a Golden Eagle keeper, she played 4,881 minutes and recorded 15 wins. She totaled 246 saves and two shutouts in her career.

In the classroom, Cox was a double major and earned Bachelors degrees in Sport Coach and Physical Education. She is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Physical Education.

Casee Rhodus
Athletic Trainer

Casee Rhodus is in her third year as a full-time staff member of the Southern Miss Athletic Training program. Her duties including the women's soccer program as well as the cheer and dance program.
 
Rhodus came to Southern Miss after spending the previous two years as a certified athletic trainer in sports medicine at the Hattiesburg Clinic.
 
Prior to her stint at the Hattiesburg Clinic, she spent a year as a graduate assistant at the University of Memphis, where she worked with women's soccer, softball and football.
 
A native of Magnolia, Miss., Rhodus earned her bachelor's degree in Athletic Training from Southern Miss in May of 2005.
 
Rhodus is a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association.