2007-08 Coaching Staff

Shona Kerr - Head Men's Squash Coach
(860) 685-2444 - skerr@wesleyan.edu

Shona Kerr will be in her third year as head coach of both men's and women's squash at Wesleyan. Coming to Wesleyan in 2005-06 after serving as the head squash coach at Wellesley College, Shona holds the rank of adjunct assistant professor of physical education at Wesleyan.

Shona completed her fourth year as head squash coach at Wellesley College in 2004-05 with a cumulative record of 44-40. Her 2002-03 squad posted 15 victories, the most at the College since 1984.

Shona came to Wellesley from the University of Wales Institutes Cardiff (UWIC), where she coached for one year. Prior to UWIC, she coached the Cardiff University Squash club, where she tutored players of all ages and abilities from 1996-98. In addition, she served as an assistant coach for the Sussex Under-19 girls' squad.

As a player, Shona was a four-year member of the Welsh Universities team from 1996-99. More recently, she was a member of the UWIC team which won the Women's Welsh Premiere League. She also represented Wales at the 2000 European Club Championships, held in Amsterdam. In the United States, Shona was a national squash age-group champion for under-35 and at the 5.0 skill level in both 2004 and 2005 and also played for the Boston Ladies "A" Team which won the Howe Cup.

In addition to her playing and coaching experience, Shona holds Level III advanced coaching certification from the England Squash Association. In the summer 2003, Shona traveled to Cairo, Egypt as a presenter at the World Squash Federation Development and Coaching Conference. She also has been active in several camps as a coach including Squashbusters summer camp for which she served as director. Shona began a two-year term as vice-president of the College Squash Association in 2005, of which she has been a member since 2001.

Shona earned a bachelors degree in music from Cardiff University in 1998 and graduate certification in management from Oxford University in 2000.
In Ocotber, 2006, Shona acted as local coordinator for the College Squash Association's Coaches Conference held at Wesleyan. Shona also organizes activities around Wesleyan's Rosenbaum Squash Center to foster greater interest in the sport in the area.

Geoff Wheeler - Assistant Coach

Geoff Wheeler joined the Wesleyan staff in 1999 and completed his ninth season as head men's soccer coach sporting a 78-54-10 record. He led his 2005 squad to a first-ever NESCAC tournament title and trip to the NCAA Division III tournament, and was named NESCAC Coach of the Year for his accomplishments. His 2006 team also qualified for the NCAAs. He is in his ninth season as assistant men's squash coach as well and spent part of the 2000-01 season as acting head coach. An assistant soccer coach at Stanford for the 1997 and 1998 seasons, Geoff is a 1993 graduate of Dartmouth College, where he was a four-year letterman in soccer, helping the Big Green qualify for the NCAA Division I tournament twice, including the 1992 season in which he served as a team captain. After serving as an assistant coach at Dartmouth for the 1993 season, Geoff went on to play professionally in Zimbabwe for a year. Returning to the United States, he played semi-professional soccer for the Cape Cod Crusaders of the USISL for two years while also teaching at two middle schools in Massachusetts and coaching soccer at the Middlesex School in Concord, Mass. Before taking the position at Stanford, Geoff was Director of Coaching for Play Soccer, a program that organized camps, coaching clinics and youth clinics in Massachusetts. The past four summers, Geoff has been director of the East Coast Soccer Academy, conducted at Wesleyan, a camp for high-school aged players who are planning to play soccer at NESCAC or Ivy League caliber colleges.
Geoff holds a USSF A license and received an Advanced National Diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) in 1998. During the summer of 2000, Geoff renewed his professional playing status as a member of the Connecticut Wolves, an A-League team which played out of New Britain, for a season. An adjunct assistant professor of physical education at Wesleyan, Geoff is currently pursuing a master's degree in liberal studies at Wesleyan.