Player Recruiting Contact email:
wsocrec@binghamton.edu
Shauny Alterisio, a native of Danbury, Conn., joined the Binghamton women's soccer coaching staff in December 2020 after an acclaimed playing career at Central Connecticut State.
A central defender, she led the Blue Devils to back-to-back NCAA tournament berths in 2018 and 2019 and graduated holding a 28-game home unbeaten streak. Alterisio was a two-year captain, two-time Northeast Conference Defensive Player of the Year and was twice named to the United Soccer Coaches All-North Region Team. Her senior season accolades were aplenty and included an invite to the NEWISA Senior Bowl. She led CCSU to a 9-1-1 conference record and a return spot in the NCAA tournament, where they advanced to the second round. Alterisio helped lock up seven shutouts and added a goal and three assists to the offense.
She also played two seasons for the New England Mutiny of the United Women's Soccer League, making 12 appearances and contributing a goal and two assists from the back line. She was named to the UWS East Conference First Team and was an All-UWS Third Team selection in 2019.
Alterisio served two seasons as U8 and U9 Girls Soccer Coach in West Hartford in 2018 and 2019, handling all aspects of the recruitment, tryouts, training and games.
She graduated with a bachelor's degree in exercise science from CCSU in May 2020. She continued her professional development by completing a practicum with the Western Pioneers Injury Prevention and Strength and Conditioning in spring 2020. There, she developed exercise and injury prevention programs for teenage soccer players.
"Our program is excited to add Shauny," head coach Neel Bhattacharjee said at the time of her hire. "Shauny had a terrific playing career at one of the top mid-major programs at Central Connecticut State under Mick D'Arcy. At CCSU she was a steady, no-nonsense defender and had terrific postseason NCAA experience our team will learn from. She is an outstanding addition to our coaching staff."
