Azusa Pacific University Athletics

The 2025 season marked Brooke Lincoln's seventh at Azusa Pacific. She was named the fifth head coach in Azusa Pacific women's soccer program history in January of 2018.

Since Lincoln's arrival, the program has posted a 67-37-21 record, highlighted by a historic 2025 season. Lincoln led the Cougars to a first-place finish in the PacWest while posting an 8-2 conference record. She earned PacWest Coach of the Year while 10 of her players received All-PacWest honors, including the PacWest Defender of the Year. Throughout the season the Cougars went on a 10 game shutout streak to break the previous program record (9). In the post-season, APU made it to the West Region Final, taking down 2023 National Champion Point Loma in the 1st round and 2022 National Champion and No. 1 seed Western Washington in the 2nd round before falling to 2024 National Champion Cal Poly Pomona in the Sweet 16. Lincoln and her staff were named United Soccer Coaches West Region Staff of the Year, while one of her athletes was named to the United Soccer Coaches All-America Third Team.

In 2024, the Cougars broke onto the national stage with an NCAA West Regional appearance after finishing 4th in the PacWest standings in the 2023, 2022 and 2021 season seasons.

In 2022, the Cougars went 9-4-4, posting a 6-2-2 conference record, and was receiving votes for the Top-25 National poll for the second consecutive year.

In 2021, Lincoln led the Cougars to an 11-5-1 record, including a 6-3-1 conference mark. At the conclusion of the season, the Cougars ranked eighth in the regional rankings and also received votes for the Top-25 National poll for their efforts throughout the season. 

In 2019, the Cougars finished 9-7-2 overall, with a 5-5-1 record in PacWest play that placed them sixth in the final conference standings. On Nov. 5, Lincoln and her team upset rival Biola by a 2-1 score. Biola had entered the match as the first place team in the conference with an 11-game unbeaten streak, but a tough and gritty performance lifted the Cougars to the big win in front of their home fans.

In 2018, which was Lincoln’s first season at the helm of the program, Azusa Pacific went 6-9-2 overall. While the Cougars struggled to find their rhythm at the beginning of the season, Lincoln’s system began to blossom and come to fruition in conference play, as the squad went 6-3-2 against PacWest competition to close the season out.

Through seven seasons at the helm, Lincoln has coached four All-Region and 27 All-PacWest performers. Off the pitch, her teams have also excelled in the classroom, as she has had 82 Academic All-PacWest honorees from 2018-22. For the 2019-20 school year, the Cougars posted a team GPA of 3.61.

Lincoln has served as the head coach at Asbury University (Ky.) for the past five seasons. During her tenure with the Eagles she has tallied a 51-32-15 overall record. She had a decorated tenure at the NAIA school. She won three regular season River State Conference titles (formerly the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference), two league tournament titles which earned two berths into the national tournament. Lincoln was named the conference Coach of the Year on two occasions. In addition, she coached three Conference Players of the Year and 17 all-conference players.

Lincoln went to Asbury after serving as a graduate assistant at Belhaven University in Jackson, Miss. During the 2012 season Lincoln helped Belhaven reach the Southern States Athletic Conference Tournament for the first time in its third season in the league. The Blazers finished eighth in the  conference that had the top seed in the NAIA National Tournament. During Lincoln's two years with the Blazers, she handled recruiting in the south region as well as in the state of Mississippi. Although a graduate assistant, Lincoln was the only assistant coach on staff and often ran training sessions. She was also charged with coordinating summer camps, bringing in more than 400 campers during the course of the summer as well as 10 teams.

Prior to joining the staff at Belhaven, Lincoln was the head girls' soccer coach at Terry High School in Terry, Miss., for two years. At Terry, Lincoln guided the squad to the state Final Four for the first time in school history and garnered a ranking as high as No. 6, finishing the year at No. 12.

She earned her Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education from Mississippi College. Lincoln has a Master's Degree in Sports Administration from Belhaven University.

LINCOLN'S COLLEGIATE COACHING CAREER