Erin Tyldesley
bio
Coach Erin Tyldesley was born and raised in in Grafton, Massachusetts. She began playing soccer at a very early age and started her club career with a small club team in Central Massachusetts called the Fuller Hamlets, eventually continuing on to join the FC Stars where she finished her club soccer career in 2018 before heading off to Merrimack College. Along with this Erin, was selected to the Massachusetts ODP team and joined the Region 1 US ODP Team and competed with them in Boca Raton, Florida in 2016. Erin played 4 years of varsity soccer during her time at Grafton High school as well as 4 years of varsity lacrosse, and basketball.
Erin was recruited to play soccer at Merrimack College and played Division I soccer there for 5 years. She was a 5 year starter, 2 year captain, and 2 year NEC All-Star. Along side of her collegiate career, Erin has helped coaches girls ages U8-U10 and has volunteered her time at numerous soccer clinics in Boston. During her time at Merrimack College she earned her Bachelors of Science in Nursing, and is now beginning her nursing career at UMass Memorial Hospital as a Cardiac Intensive Care Unit RN.
philosophy
As a coach, I believe in stressing the importance of self confidence especially in young girls and young women and expressing to my team all of the mental, and physical lessons and benefits this game can give them, and the places soccer can take them in life. I truly attribute the person I am becoming and everything I have accomplished on and off the field to this game, and want to help players find that same passion for the game I have been lucky enough to find. I hope to support them in gaining everything they can and more from this sport and to get better every single day through hard work and dedication.