Coaching Staff
Panos Galatas
Assistant Director
Panos Galatas is currently in his third season as the director of operations for the men's soccer program in 2024.
He was a member of the America East Coaching Staff of the Year in 2022 amd 2023, and the Northeast Region Staff of the Year in 2023.
Galatas, who is native of Hillsboro, N.H., had an outstanding playing career at New England College. As a four-year midfielder, he started in 81 matches, as the Pilgrims won two conference championships and made two NCAA Tournament appearances. He was also named a First Team All-Conference player twice, Conference Player of Week and New England College Player of the Month. In his last season at New England College, Galatas was coached by current UNH assistant coach Brad Campion.
During his gap year in college, Galatas studied aboard and was able to join Liga Revelacao Academica u23 team in Coimbra, Portugal. Before college, Galatas played for several clubs competing in USYS Region 1 League and National league.
Galatas obtained his B.A. in Business Administration and his M.B.A. in Project Management through New England College. Galatas is also the Publicity Administrator for New Hampshire Olympic Development Program and is the head coach of the u12 Boys ODP New Hampshire State Team.
Ian de Oliveira
Assistant Director
Ian de Oliveira is currently in his first season as an assistant coach at UNH in 2024.
de Oliveira spent the 2023 season as an assistant coach at Northeastern. Previously, he was the goalkeeper coach at Marshall University where the team had the best goal against average in the conference and allowed the least amount of goals. Prior to working at Marshall, he was the goalkeeper coach for both West Virginia United (USL2) (2021-2022) and River Valley Soccer Club (2020-2021). At West Virginia United he coached a goalkeeper that was selected to the 2022 All-Southern Conference First Team.
de Oliveira played for the University of Charleston and was on the 2017 and 2019 teams that won the NCAA Division II National Championship. He graduated from the University of Charleston with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration in 2022 and a Master of Science degree in Strategic Leadership in 2022.
He lives with his wife Taylor in Waltham.
Alan Kehoe
Assistant Director
Alan Kehoe is currently in his first season as a men's soccer assistant coach in 2024.
Kehoe previously served as the Director of Player Development for the UNH men's soccer team in 2022. He was a member of the 2022 America East Coaching Staff of the Year as the Wildcats won the America East Championship and advanced to the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament.
As a Wildcat student-athlete in 2018 and 2019, UNH won two conference championships. As a senior in 2019, the midfielder played in 19 games with 18 starts and one assist.
Kehoe also was the captain of the Franklin Pierce men's soccer team after his time at UNH.
Kehoe has professional soccer experience in Ireland and Iceland, while he has coached on the youth level in Europe and the U.S.
He graduated from UNH in 2020 as a Kinesiology major and earned his MBA at Franklin Pierce in 2021.
David Williams
Goalkeeping Director
David Williams is currently in his 10th season as the goalkeeper coach in 2024.
Williams has been a member of the America East Staff of the Year six times (2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 & 2023), Northeast Region Staff of the Year three times (2019, 2021 & 2023) and Eastern Region Staff of the Year once (2017).
Throughout his career at UNH and SNHU, he has coached three All-American keepers, six All-Region keepers and nine All-Conference keepers.
The keepers coached by Williams are consistently in the top 10 nationally for the most shutouts and the lowest goals against average. Collectively the keepers under his tutelage have appeared in a total of 13 Division 1 and Division 2 NCAA Tournaments with seven Sweet Sixteen berths, two round of eight berths and one Division 2 Final Four and National Championship.
Williams graduated from Cornell University in 1993 and was a four-year starting keeper and two-year captain for the Big Red and is still ranked third all-time for career saves. While at Cornell he played for and coached one season with former Chicago Fire and US Men’s National Team first assistant and interim head coach Dave Sarachan.
Upon graduating Williams played professionally for the San Diego Top Guns in the U.S.I.S.L. and for the Colorado Foxes of the ASL and A-League. Williams has coached U-13, U-16 and U-17 premier club players in San Diego and New Hampshire.
After a catastrophic knee injury cut Williams’ career short, he worked in sales, marketing and operations, ultimately coming to New Hampshire to be the director of operations for a manufacturing company. Williams decided to leave his corporate position, work as an independent consultant and vest himself in developing and getting the most out of the keepers that serve as the last line of defense for consistently hard working, high quality and winning teams.
Williams is originally from Colorado and has lived in Rye, N.H. for the past 20 years with his wife Kate, daughter Kamara and son Kai.