Staff Directory
Amanda Attanasi
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
The 2026 season is Amanda Attanasi’s first year as an assistant coach with the Montana soccer program. She coaches the team’s forwards and guides the Grizzlies’ offensive attack.
Attanasi spent the 2025-26 season as the director of operations for the Temple women’s lacrosse program following a decorated soccer career at James Madison from 2021 to ’24.
Attanasi totaled 28 career goals and 13 assists on JMU teams that won 42 matches over four years, went 24-5-10 in league and made the 2023 and ’24 NCAA tournaments.
She was third-team All-Coastal Athletic Association as a freshman and part of the CAA All-Rookie Team, second-team United Soccer Coaches All-Southeast Region as a sophomore.
She had six goals and three assists as a junior, when the Dukes made the NCAA tournament as an at-large selection.
James Madison made the NCAA tournament again in 2024, when Attanasi was a senior and totaled 10 goals and three assists on her way to second-team All-Sun Belt and second-team all-region honors.
Attanasi pulled the Dukes within 2-1 late in the first half of their NCAA tournament match at Ohio State, what would be her 28th and final collegiate goal.
From Washington Township, N.J., Attanasi was the South Jersey Times Player of the Year as a freshman at Washington Township High after scoring 29 goals.
She added the same award as a senior in 2020 as she wrapped up a prep career that had her total 79 goals, 26 more than any other player in school history.
She earned her undergraduate degree from James Madison in sport and recreation management in 2025.
She began working toward a master’s degree in sport business with a concentration in athletic administration at Temple in 2025-26 while helping the Owls lacrosse program go 12-5.
Attanasi spent the 2025-26 season as the director of operations for the Temple women’s lacrosse program following a decorated soccer career at James Madison from 2021 to ’24.
Attanasi totaled 28 career goals and 13 assists on JMU teams that won 42 matches over four years, went 24-5-10 in league and made the 2023 and ’24 NCAA tournaments.
She was third-team All-Coastal Athletic Association as a freshman and part of the CAA All-Rookie Team, second-team United Soccer Coaches All-Southeast Region as a sophomore.
She had six goals and three assists as a junior, when the Dukes made the NCAA tournament as an at-large selection.
James Madison made the NCAA tournament again in 2024, when Attanasi was a senior and totaled 10 goals and three assists on her way to second-team All-Sun Belt and second-team all-region honors.
Attanasi pulled the Dukes within 2-1 late in the first half of their NCAA tournament match at Ohio State, what would be her 28th and final collegiate goal.
From Washington Township, N.J., Attanasi was the South Jersey Times Player of the Year as a freshman at Washington Township High after scoring 29 goals.
She added the same award as a senior in 2020 as she wrapped up a prep career that had her total 79 goals, 26 more than any other player in school history.
She earned her undergraduate degree from James Madison in sport and recreation management in 2025.
She began working toward a master’s degree in sport business with a concentration in athletic administration at Temple in 2025-26 while helping the Owls lacrosse program go 12-5.
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