Updated: August 7, 2026
First Day at Johns Hopkins: August 15, 2026
A Baltimore area native, Carly Wetzel joined the Johns Hopkins women's soccer coaching staff in the summer of 2026.
Wetzel won three state championships at nearby River Hill High School and played two seasons at Centennial Conference rival McDaniel (2018-19) before transferring to North Carolina to play for the Tar Heels. In a career interrupted by the COVID pandemic, she was a member of the North Carolina women's soccer team during the 2021-22 season and was named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll while graduating as a double major in Political Science and Spanish with a 3.96 cumulative grade point average. She later played one season at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland as she earned her master's in Global Social and Political Thought.
An assistant coach at UMBC from 2024-25, Wetzel has played professionally in Ireland, Iceland and Germany. While working with the Retriever women's soccer team, she assisted in all areas of the program, including practice and game-planning and individual player development. She also spent four years as an assistant youth soccer coach with Soccer by Rachel. There, she focused as a developmental coach with youth players and led individual, group and team training sessions.
