Matt Hall Position: Assistant Coach Year at SDSU: Eighth year

Matt Hall enters his eighth season as an assistant with the San Diego State men's soccer program. His primary duties are coordinating the team's recruiting and working with the goalkeepers.

Under Hall's guidance last season, Tally Hall became the first Aztec to earn All-America honors in consecutive years since National Soccer Hall of Famer member Marcelo Balboa accomplished the feat in 1988 and again in 1989.

Tally Hall also was a M.A.C. Hermann Award semifinalist, a Scholar All-American and a first-team all-West Region and all-Pac-10 performer.

Matt Hall helped the SDSU goalkeepers limit the opposition to just nine goals in Pac-10 play, tied with Stanford for the fewest in the conference.

A year before (2005), Tally Hall led the nation with a 88.9 shots-on-goal save percentage and was second in the country with a 0.49 goals against average, both school records.

With Matt Hall's assistance, four different SDSU keepers have earned postseason all-conference honors each of his seven years.

Brian Barnes set the school's single season saves record in both 2000, and 2002. Barnes recorded 90 saves in 2000 and 98 saves in his final season.

Actively involved in recruiting, Matt Hall has helped San Diego State to consecutive top-20 nationally rated recruiting classes.

Hall is a familiar face to San Diego State soccer fans, having spent three years (1996-98) defending the Aztecs' net and beginning SDSU's recent tradition of nationally-renowned goalkeepers.

Hall is listed third on the school's season saves list, recording 89 during the 1998 campaign. He is ranked third on SDSU's career saves list with 213.

In June 1998, Hall represented SDSU at the adidas Summer League, a prestigious camp designed for the nation's top collegiate players. He was one of 15 goalkeepers from across the country invited to participate in the clinic. He also had a solid professional career, starting for the San Diego Flash, which reached the quarterfinals of the A-League championships in 2001.

Hall completed his undergraduate degree at the University of San Diego in 2001, and holds a U.S.S.F. National "B" license.

He resides in San Diego with his wife Kelli.