Staff
Alyssa Krause | Assistant Coach
Alyssa Krause joined the SIUE women's soccer staff as an assistant coach in July 2023 after spending the previous season as an assistant coach at SIU Carbondale.
Krause previously was the head women’s soccer coach at Saint Xavier for two seasons. She spent 2018 through 2020 as an assistant at Purdue Fort Wayne, where she helped the program to the best 10-game start in program history and tied for the third lowest goals in program history.
During the 2016 and 2017 season, Krause was an assistant at Taylor University. She helped the Trojans earned a No. 16 national rankings in the NAIA Top 25.
Nick Luciani | Assistant Coach
Nick Luciani joined the SIUE Athletics family as an assistant coach for women's soccer in February 2025.
Luciani will be working with the SIUE goalkeepers as he makes the transition from being a volunteer men's assistant coach last season at Lindenwood.
Luciani has worked with Lou Fusz Athletics as the girl's goalkeeping director and academy assistant since 2022. In 2023 and 2024, he served as an assistant coach and goalkeeper coach for Saint Charles FC of the USL W league, a pre-professional women's soccer league.
He began coaching as a graduate assistant at Missouri Baptist, where he worked with Spartan women's soccer goalkeepers. While at Missouri Baptist, the Spartans made two conference tournament semifinal appearances. He helped coach five first team All-Conference players and 12 All-Conference selections overall, including a first team All-Conference goalkeeper each season.
As a collegiate player, Luciani was a three-year starter and two-time captain for Culver-Stockton. He made 70 appearances and holds school records for single-season shutouts, career shutouts and fewest goals conceded in a career.
After leaving Culver-Stockton, Luciani played one season with the South Bend Lions (USL), collecting 10 starting assignments. He also played professionally on an international level playing for the SV Vatanspor Aschaffenburg in Germany and the Finland Kasko IK.
He earned a bachelor of arts in sports management from Culver-Stockton in 2020 and later earned a master of science in sports management in 2024.
Luciana holds a USSF D license and a USSF grassroots license (2023) as well as a United Soccer Coaches Goalkeeping Level 1 Diploma (2024).