Becky Golas begins her fourth season as an assistant coach for the Milwaukee Panthers after being hired in the summer of 2015.
She quickly helped turned around a team that won just six games the year prior to her arrival and was picked to finish eighth in the preseason poll. The Panthers nearly doubled that win total, finishing 11-3-4 overall, including an unbeaten 8-0-1 mark in league play that included the regular-season crown.
The squad repeated as league champions again in 2016 at 8-1-0, topping the Horizon League in points, goals, assists and shots on offense and shutouts and goals-against average on defense, coming up just short of a return to the NCAA Tournament after a tough loss in the title game.
The 2017 campaign brought the first-ever unbeaten season in school and Horizon League history at 16-0-4, finishing as the nation's lone unbeaten squad. Milwaukee again led the Horizon League in virtually every category, finishing second in the NCAA in goals-against average (school and Horizon League record 0.285), second in assists (61), fifth in points (151), third in shots per-game (19.8) and 10th in scoring offense (2.25). The Panthers played in the Horizon League Tournament championship for the second year in a row.
Golas joined the staff after spending the 2014 season at Texas A&M-Texarkana, serving as the athletics business manager. Her husband, Steve Golas, who also joined the Milwaukee coaching staff, was at the school as the women’s soccer head coach.
Prior to the move to Texas, Golas was the women’s head coach at Illinois College for four seasons. That followed a two-year stay at Lewis & Clark in Portland, Ore., as the women’s assistant with Steve the head coach.
Golas has a resume of great success over her coaching career. Her first stop came at Michigan State (2003-05), where she helped the team compile a 21-13-0 record. She then moved on to serve as an assistant at Angelo State University (2005) and Millikin University (2006-07). Golas also has made an impact at the club level leading her Chicago Blast U-12’s to a National Indoor Soccer Championship as well as winning an IWSL league title. She also worked with the Illinois Fusion Soccer Club leading her team to a CISL championship in 2008.
A talented collegiate athlete, she began her playing career at Bemidji State University. During her time at BSU, she held nearly every offensive record and was a three-time All-NSIC First-Team honoree. Along the way she was also recognized as BSU’s Female Athlete of the Year, a NSIC Academic All-Conference member and was the school’s inaugural inductee into its soccer hall of fame.
Golas finished her playing career at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside under Fabiano, where she helped anchor one of the nation’s premier defenses and was recognized as an Academic All-GLVC performer for her efforts.
Golas received her bachelor’s degree, graduating Magna Cum Laude, from UW-Parkside in 2003 and received her master’s degree in Forensic Science from Michigan State University in 2008. She and her husband Steve have a son, Jacoby, and a daughter, Cora.
