Seth Junion - Women's Soccer Coach - Western Kentucky University Athletics

Seth Junion

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
seth.junion@wku.edu
Phone:
(270) 745-3185

Seth Junion joined the Lady Topper Soccer staff as an assistant coach in February of 2022. His primary duties with the team are training, mentoring and developing the team's goalkeepers.

Junion comes to The Hill after spending the 2021 season at Bellarmine University as an assistant coach under former WKU assistant coach, Chris Tinius. He primarily focues on the development of goalkeepers in his role with the Knights. Towards the end of his time with Bellarmine, Junion's role expanded to include additional recruiting, player campus visits and team training responsibilities.

Junion's lone season with the Knights was only the second year of competing in Division I for Bellarmine. The team made its first conference semifinal appearance after two penalty kicks were saved against the No. 1 seed in the quarterfinals. The Knights secured five team shutouts that season.

Junion first began his coaching career with Bright Lights Goalkeeping in late 2012 as a volunteer while he continued his playing career as well. Through his time with Bright Lights, Junion transformed his role to occupy various men's and women's high school programs and become responsible for individual and group training sessions, training anywhere from collegiate to elementary schoold aged student-athletes. In 2020, he added additional responsibilites as Director of Operations and founded a collaborative business in TSJ Photography. The business focused on photography, design and highlight films to help aspiring student-athletes with various aspects of the recruiting process.

In 2019, Junion became the goalkeeping coach at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, quickly transitioning into a full-time role with the the program. The varsity squad finised with six shutouts, posted by three different goalkeepers.

Junion coached with the Mockingbird Valley Premier in 2020 as a goalkeeper coach. He had previously played with the program during middle and high school. He also joined Racing Louisville to assist the U18 age group for a brief period before accepting his current role with WKU.

Junion currently hold a US Soccer D Coaching License as well as the United Soccer Coaches Goalkeeping I diploma.

Junion's playing career concluded in a reserve role at Xavier University (2015-16) after injuries. At Xavier, he earned a B.S. in Actuarial Science with a minor in Finance and a focus in Strategic Innovation in 2018.