University of Victoria Athletics

Canada Soccer Hall of Famer Tracy David enters her 24th year as the head coach of the Vikes women’s soccer program in 2025-26. David was named head coach in 2002 after guiding the University of Alberta Pandas from 1985 to 2000.
 
In her Canada West coaching career split between the Vikes and the Alberta Pandas, David has three national titles to her name, including the Vikes’ only CIS (now U SPORTS) title in 2005. David has been named Canada West Coach of the Year seven times (1989, '95, '97, '98, ‘05, '08, '13) and had one CIS Coach of the Year nod in 1989. Including her time with both the Vikes and Pandas, David has won over 220 Canada West regular season games. 

David guided the Vikes to a Canada West silver medal in 2024, marking the first conference medal for the program since a silver medal finish in 2017. Finishing the Canada West season with a 7-2-5 record, the Vikes finished 9-5-5 overall after a 2-3 postseason run that included two wins during the Canada West playoffs and the program's first appearance at the U SPORTS championship since 2019. Ruby Nicholas was the Canada West Player of the Year, Canada West All-Star, and a U SPORTS All-Canadian in 2024, while Sophie Fingarson garnered Canada West Second Team All-Star honours to round out the Vikes' award winners.

Posting an 8-4-2 record during Canada West play during the 2023 season, the Vikes recorded the most Canada West wins for the program since the 2019 season, earning a fourth place seed for the conference playoffs. Defeating Fraser Valley on penalty kicks in the play-in round, the Vikes advanced to the quarterfinal round for the first time since 2019, Victoria shutout top-seeded MacEwan to secure their first appearance in the Canada West Final Four since 2017. Though the Vikes ultimately fell in the bronze medal game, UVic finished the season with four Canada West All-Stars: second team selections Emma Skalik, Sophie Fingarson, and Ruby Nicholas, and all-rookie honouree Adrianna Hilton.

The 2017 season was Tracy David's 16th season as head coach of the UVic Vikes women's soccer team. Finishing the regular season with a 9-1-4 record David led the Vikes to second place in Canada West and a berth in the U SPORTS National Championship. After falling in the quarterfinals, the Vikes defeated both the No. 1 seed Laval and Manitoba to claim fifth-place in the nation.

In the 2015 regular season, David's team finished fourth with a record 7-3-4. The team cracked the CIS Top-10 polls for five-straight weeks as the Vikes' record secured them a spot in the Canada West Select Six.

In the 2013 regular season, David was named Canada West Coach of the Year for guiding her team to a 10-2 record to earn the top seed and hosting rights of the Canada West Final Six. Come playoffs, the Vikes were unable brought home a Canada West bronze medal.
 
Before becoming one of the top university coaches in Canada, David enjoyed a long and prolific playing career. She began with the Edmonton Angels, where she captained the team to six national titles over ten seasons. In 1986, David was selected to be a part of the inaugural Canada Soccer Women’s National team and played with them until 1990. David was capped 15 times for Canada and was inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame in 2003.
 
As a student at the University of Alberta, David was instrumental in the creation of a university varsity women's soccer league. Thanks to David and her colleagues, the first official Canada West women’s soccer league was established in 1983, the year after David graduated. In 1987, David was solicited to be president of the CIAU (now U SPORTS) women’s soccer coaches association and served in that role until 1995. In recognition of her accomplishments, the University of Alberta inducted David into their Sports Wall of Fame in 2007.
 
Along with coaching at the U SPORTS level, David has also served as a head coach for numerous U17, U16 and U15 provincial teams for both Alberta and B.C. In the summer of 2005, David coached Team B.C. to gold at the Canada Summer Games hosted in Regina.
 
On a national level, David was an assistant coach for the U17 Canadian team and an assistant coach with the U20 Canadian team that won the 2008 CONCACAF Championship.
 
David is a National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) level four coach and earned her Master of Coaching Studies from the University of Victoria in 1999. 

MAJOR AWARDS:

U SPORTS (formerly CIS) CHAMPIONSHIPS (3):  1989*, 1997*, 2005
CANADA WEST CHAMPIONSHIPS (6): 1988*, 1989*, 1991*, 1996*, 1997* 2008
CIS COACH OF THE YEAR (1): 1989*
CANADA WEST COACH OF THE YEAR (6): 1989*, 1995*, 1997*, 1998*, 2005, 2008, 2013
* as Head coach at the University of Alberta

TRACY DAVID'S RECORD AT UVIC