Sydney Kahan joins the Brandeis women’s soccer staff for the fall 2022 season.

Kahan spent 2021 as an assistant at Tufts University, and in the summer of 2022, she served as an assistant coach for Team USA at the Maccabiah Games in Israel. She helped the American team earn a gold medal after helping to arrange tryouts and running the team’s training camp.

Prior to her time at Tufts, Kahan spent two years at Clark University, while also serving as the goalkeeper coach for DII Assumption University. In 2018, Kahan helped Assumption to their first Northeast-10 Championship appearance since 2014. The team also posted seven shutouts throughout the season, while goalkeeper Alexis Nason earned All-New England honors and Northeast-10 All-Conference honors under the direction of Kahan. Nason also had the most saves within the Northeast-10 during the 2018 season and third-best save percentage in the conference. In 2017, Kahan's first year with the Greyhounds, she helped the team reach the Northeast-10 Semifinals.

Kahan was a four year-year letter-winner in soccer at DIII Wesley College. She started all four years for the Wolverines in net and holds one of the lowest goals against averages in program history. She was named captain of the team in 2012, her senior year. She graduated with a degree in exercise science in 2014. Kahan also played semi-professional soccer for the Rhode Island Reds FC in the WPSL for two seasons.

Kahan is currently part of the Rhode Island ODP coaching staff and the Massachusetts ODP goalkeeping coaching staff. Prior to coaching at the collegiate level Kahan was a member of the New England Revolution Academy staff. She held multiple roles within the organization, including being the director of coaching for Lincoln Youth Soccer. Kahan has worked within club soccer and high school soccer since 2012 as well.

Kahan currently holds her USSF "C" License and in 2020 was one of 10 fellows across all divisions and sports in the NCAA to receive the Women's Sports Foundation Tara VanDerveer Fund for the Advancement of Women in Coaching grants. She earned her Master’s in Public Administration from Clark in 2022.

(information taken from a Tufts press release)