Two-time Major League Soccer (MLS) Goalkeeper of the Year and former Jamaican National Team member, Donovan Ricketts, has accepted the position of goalkeeper coach for the Emory men's soccer team in June of 2016.

In his first season on Travis' staff, Ricketts helped the Eagles post a 10-5-1 record in 2016. Emory goalkeepers in his first season with the team combined for five shutouts a 1.20 goals-against average and a .692 save percentage.

Ricketts joins the Emory coaching staff having played over 12 years professionally with four MLS clubs: Los Angeles Galaxy, Orlando City SC, Portland Timbers and Montreal Impact with other professional stints including England’s Bradford City FC of League One and the Jamaican National Team (Reggae Boyz). While playing in the MLS, Ricketts was a two-time Goalkeeper of the Year selection while playing with the Galaxy (2010) and Timbers (2013) and was named the league’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2009 and 2013. In 2011, Ricketts was a member of the LA Galaxy’s MLS Cup championship team that defeated the Houston Dynamo in the finals.

In addition to his MLS highlights, Ricketts served as team captain while receiving 100 caps with the Jamaican National Team, who were crowned winners of the Digicel Cup in 2008, and was part of Jamaica’s only World Cup team at the 1998 competition in France. Prior to playing professionally, Ricketts also served as captain of the Jamaica U-23 and U-20 National teams.

Updated December 2016