Niki Brooks enters her first season as assistant coach with the NM State soccer team. She will primarily work with the Aggie goalkeepers, while helping head coach Freddie Delgado in recruiting efforts.
Brooks spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach for San Jose State University where she was responsible for the daily technical and tactical goalkeeper training. Before San Jose State, Brooks served as assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay from 2011-13. She coached one of Green Bay’s goalkeepers to become the all-time career in saves as well as earn Player of the Week honors.
Throughout her career, Brooks has primarily focused on goalkeeper training. She was also head coach for the FC Green Bay soccer club, assistant coach of the Wisconsin and Oregon Olympic Development Program, among others.
Brooks joins the Aggies with knowledge of the WAC as she was an assistant at Idaho during the 2010 season and helped the Vandals make their first WAC Tournament appearance, which led to the best finish in school history.
At the collegiate level, Brooks also spent time with Portland State, Linfield College and Pacific University, assisting with each school’s soccer programs.
Brooks played internationally for the FC Braatz Soccer Club as a goalie in 2004 and 2006. She helped her team win the Regio Haarlem Cup Champion in 2004 in Haarlem, Netherlands and come back to win the Donosti Cup Tournament Champion in San Sebastian, Spain in 2006.
Brooks played as a goalie from 2002-05 at Portland State. She broke school records in career saves and shutouts and tied single-season shutouts. Brooks also received Big Sky All-Conference Honorable Mention, Big Sky Conference Player of the Week and helped the Vikings to a 2004 league title.
Brooks graduated from Portland State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in physical activity and exercise with a minor in sociology. She went on to receive her masters from PSU in secondary education.
