Lynsey Winkler enters her second season as Head Coach at UT Permian Basin. She had spent the prior three seasons as the assistant women’s soccer coach at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. During her time there she helped develop four All-Northwest Conference players.
In her first year as head coach Winkler tied the total amount of goals the Falcons scored in the spring 2021 season with seven less matches played. The Falcons had three matches determined by one goal or less.
After the season, Hayley Sawyer was named the Lone Star Conference Freshman of the Year and Second Team All-Conference, while Olivia Rees made the LSC All-Academic team.
Prior to joining Whitman, Winkler spent the previous three years as the head girl's soccer coach at Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was elevated to that position after serving as the program's assistant coach the season before (2014).
In addition to her coaching duties, Winkler also served Newman in the capacity of Assistant to the Athletic Director, and as the developer and instructor of the Captains Leadership Class for all of Newman's varsity team captains.
Winkler's teams at Newman collected Division IV state champion titles in 2016 and 2017 and 15 of her players would earn first-team all-state recognition. She was voted the Louisiana D-IV coach of the year twice (2016, 2017) and the D-IV District 8 coach of the year three times (2015, 2016, 2017).
Winkler earned a degree in business administration in 2009 from Spring Hill (Ala.) College where she started all four years for the Badgers' women's soccer team, serving as a team captain her senior season. A two-time First Team All-Gulf Coast Conference player (2005, 2008) she was also tabbed Spring Hill's Athlete of the Year in the spring of 2009. In the summer before her final year Winkler started at center back for FC St. Louis in the Midwest Conference of the Women's Premier Soccer League.
A holder of a United States Soccer Federation National 'C' License, she also possesses a National Soccer Coaches Association of America Goalkeeping Level 2 certification. She will compete her Masters of Education in Educational, School and Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Positive Coaching from the University of Missouri this spring.
