The Falcons will be under the direction of new Head Coach Nicholas Finch in 2025-26. He replaces Tyler Cotton, who stepped aside after a successful five-year run leading the program that included a 44-19-6 record and three district titles. The 2022 and 2023 teams both advanced all the way to the regional semifinals.

Despite a 2024-25 season that started 4-1-2 but finished with losses in six of the last eight games, a standard of success defines the program. Saint Stephen’s has had just four losing seasons and captured 13 district titles since 2000, including a string of five consecutive from 2008-12 and three straight from 2022-24.

SSES soccer has also produced a group of stars who have gone on to play collegiately. Goalkeeper Shannon Morrish was 76-23-5 in five seasons as a Falcon and was part of four straight district champions. She was the team MVP in 2010 and played in 16 games during her career at Vanderbilt. Morgan Fragapane starred for the Falcons as a forward and then appeared in 51 matches at Presbyterian College in South Carolina. Hannah Howell was the Bradenton Herald’s player of the year in 2013, scored 101 career goals at SSES – including 39 as a senior – and signed with Georgetown University. Taylor Vogt, who scored 22 goals as a senior in 2023, played at Florida Atlantic University and as a member of the Peruvian under-19 and under-20 national teams.