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Gaffney, Evan
Evan Gaffney
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Evan Gaffney enters his first season as an assistant coach at Duke and will be in charge of the goalkeepers.
Gaffney, a native of Dublin, Ireland, arrives in Durham after spending the last three seasons at East Carolina.
During the three years with the Pirates, Gaffney and the ECU squad totaled 27 overall wins and 12 league victories, while helping claim ECU’s first conference tournament championship and NCAA Tournament appearance in 2024.
“We’re excited to bring Evan Gaffney on board as goalkeeper coach,” said Duke head coach Kieran Hall. “His experience, technical knowledge and dedication to player development aligns perfectly with the culture we have here at Duke. Evan’s ability to connect with student-athletes and push them to their full potential will be a huge asset to us and we’re looking forward to seeing the positive impact he will have on our program.”
Coming off one of the best seasons in program history in 2024, Gaffney helped the Pirates to a 10-4-7 ledger and to a 1-0 victory over top-seeded Memphis in the American Athletic Conference Championship to send the Pirates to the NCAA Tournament.
He mentored goalkeeper Maeve English to AAC Tournament Most Outstanding Defensive Player honors, while also earning AAC All-Conference Third Team recognition. Over the last three years, he helped English finish out her career as the ECU all-time leader in starts, appearances, goalkeeper minutes played and shutouts as well as ranking in the top three in program history in saves, goals against average and save percentage.
“I am incredible honored an extremely excited to be a part of the Duke family and join the Blue Devil coaching staff,” said Gaffney. “Thank you so much to Kieran Hall and Carla Overbeck for this opportunity to be a part of one of the best programs in the country and I can’t wait to get started.”
Prior to ECU, Gaffney recently served as men's assistant coach and developmental squad head coach at Coker University where he helped lead the Cobras to the South Atlantic Conference Tournament championship and an overall 12-7-2 mark during the 2021 campaign.
In addition to being ranked as high as fourth nationally during the season, Coker produced four All-SAC and all-region performers. Defensively, the Cobras posted five shutouts and surrendered a paltry 1.46 goals against average.
Following a stellar playing career at Truett McConnell (Ga.) University, Gaffney served a part-time role as keeper coach for the women's program at his alma mater in 2020. He was a four-year starter, a two-time All-Appalachian Athletic Conference selection and two-time team captain, while manning the net for the Bears from 2016 to 2019. He helped lead TMU to an AAC Tournament title in 2017, was selected as the defensive player-of-the-year on three occasions and was the newcomer-of-the-year in 2016.
Gaffney earned a bachelor's degree in business administration with a concentration in sport management from Truett McConnell in December of 2020.
Gaffney, a native of Dublin, Ireland, arrives in Durham after spending the last three seasons at East Carolina.
During the three years with the Pirates, Gaffney and the ECU squad totaled 27 overall wins and 12 league victories, while helping claim ECU’s first conference tournament championship and NCAA Tournament appearance in 2024.
“We’re excited to bring Evan Gaffney on board as goalkeeper coach,” said Duke head coach Kieran Hall. “His experience, technical knowledge and dedication to player development aligns perfectly with the culture we have here at Duke. Evan’s ability to connect with student-athletes and push them to their full potential will be a huge asset to us and we’re looking forward to seeing the positive impact he will have on our program.”
Coming off one of the best seasons in program history in 2024, Gaffney helped the Pirates to a 10-4-7 ledger and to a 1-0 victory over top-seeded Memphis in the American Athletic Conference Championship to send the Pirates to the NCAA Tournament.
He mentored goalkeeper Maeve English to AAC Tournament Most Outstanding Defensive Player honors, while also earning AAC All-Conference Third Team recognition. Over the last three years, he helped English finish out her career as the ECU all-time leader in starts, appearances, goalkeeper minutes played and shutouts as well as ranking in the top three in program history in saves, goals against average and save percentage.
“I am incredible honored an extremely excited to be a part of the Duke family and join the Blue Devil coaching staff,” said Gaffney. “Thank you so much to Kieran Hall and Carla Overbeck for this opportunity to be a part of one of the best programs in the country and I can’t wait to get started.”
Prior to ECU, Gaffney recently served as men's assistant coach and developmental squad head coach at Coker University where he helped lead the Cobras to the South Atlantic Conference Tournament championship and an overall 12-7-2 mark during the 2021 campaign.
In addition to being ranked as high as fourth nationally during the season, Coker produced four All-SAC and all-region performers. Defensively, the Cobras posted five shutouts and surrendered a paltry 1.46 goals against average.
Following a stellar playing career at Truett McConnell (Ga.) University, Gaffney served a part-time role as keeper coach for the women's program at his alma mater in 2020. He was a four-year starter, a two-time All-Appalachian Athletic Conference selection and two-time team captain, while manning the net for the Bears from 2016 to 2019. He helped lead TMU to an AAC Tournament title in 2017, was selected as the defensive player-of-the-year on three occasions and was the newcomer-of-the-year in 2016.
Gaffney earned a bachelor's degree in business administration with a concentration in sport management from Truett McConnell in December of 2020.
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