George Washington University Men's Soccer

Matthew Watts was named as the GW Men's Soccer Head Coach in December of 2025. Watts comes to GW with a decorated resume that includes 14 years of head coach...

Nick Conklu was hired as an assistant coach for the men's soccer program in July of 2024. Conklu is native of the DMV and comes to GW with youth and NCAA D-II coaching experience, along with playing experience at the D-I, D-II and semi-professional levels. Conklu comes to GW from the University of the District of Columbia, where he was the Volunteer Assistant & Goalkeeper Coach for the 2023 season. There he was in charge of planning and implementing multiple goalkeeper sessions per week, along with goalkeeper match analysis and opponent scouting reports. Additionally, Conklu assisted the head coach with team practices, game preparations and local recruiting of future student-athletes. In his only season coaching at UDC, Conklu helped produce an East Coast Conference (ECC) Third Team All-Conference Goalkeeper, while helping the team to a runner-up finish at the ECC Tournament Championship. Conlku also has experience as the U13-U19 MLS NEXT Academy Goalkeeper Coach and as the Head of Academy Futsol Goalkeeper Program at the Alexandria Soccer Association. A product of the Arlington Soccer Association in his youth, Conklu was recruited and played college soccer at Holy Cross, where he served as team captain during the 2020-21 season. While with the Crusaders, Conlku was a two time recipient of the Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award (2019, 2020), was named three times to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll (2017, 2019, 2020) and he was tabbed to the CoSIDA Academic All-Distri

Richard Ainscough was hired in January 2026 as an assistant coach for GW men's soccer. Ainscough brings over six seasons of college soccer coaching experienc...