Bio

After a season as assistant coach at Perkinston, Carly Mauldin takes over the head women’s soccer coaching duties for Gulf Coast’s 2023 season. She sports an NCAA Division I coaching background and dazzling playing performances at the high school, college and professional levels.

Before coming to Gulf Coast, she spent two years as an assistant coach at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she helped lead the Golden Eagles to their first division championship and second appearance in the conference title game.

USM won its first Conference USA West Division championship in fall 2021. The Golden Eagles advanced to the C-USA championship game, finishing 10-4-3 overall and 4-1-3 in the division. The season scheduled for fall 2020 was played in spring 2021, and USM went 7-3-1 overall and 4-2 in division competition. They played in the C-USA semifinal, losing in penalties after a scoreless draw to eventual champion Rice.

Mauldin, who is originally from Laurel, played her high school soccer at West Jones. She led the Mustangs to three Class 5A state championships, earning All-District six times.

She played collegiately at Mississippi State, where she was a star midfielder from 2015-18. She started all 72 games, which ranks seventh in school history, and her 6,545 minutes are the fifth-most. She was named to Mississippi State’s All-Time Team selected in 2019. Mauldin earned All-SEC Second Team and NCSAA All-Region Third Team honors in 2018. That year she was the Bulldogs’ captain and led MSU to its first NCAA Tournament appearance.

Mauldin moved to Finland to play professionally. Playing for Nurmijärven Jalkapalloseura, she won Female Player of the Year of the Kakkonen League in 2019.

She started coaching in 2017 as a youth coach for Next Level Training in Detroit, Mich., and did that for two summers.

Mauldin has a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology with a concentration in clinical exercise physiology from Mississippi State. She earned spots on the Bulldog Honor Roll and MSU’s Academic Honor Roll each semester from spring 2015 to fall 2018 and won spots on the SEC Academic Honor Roll three years.

Mauldin is engaged to Todd Makovicka, a strength and conditioning coach at USM.