Camp Staff
Julie McClure | Associate Head Coach
Julie McClure is in her first season as the associate head coach at Kansas State.
McClure's responsibilities on staff include: recruiting coordinator and working with the team's defense.
“I am absolutely thrilled to add Julie to our staff here at K State and feel so lucky that her and Tanner have decided to call Manhattan home,” stated Corbin on the newest addition to the coaching staff. “Julie has had an incredibly positive impact on both my life and my career, and I am ecstatic to have the opportunity to work with her again and to build something special together, along with the rest of our staff.
“She is a very talented coach who sees and understands the game at a high level and is the most competitive person I know. Julie will undoubtedly add to our team’s culture of success and will pour everything she has into helping our young women achieve their full potential. Her past experiences as both an elite level player and a championship coach will provide her the opportunity to support our young women and be a sounding board for them as they navigate their own athletic careers.
“On the field, Julie will bring a disciplined and organized approach when developing our team’s defensive identity, while also encouraging confidence and belief in their abilities. In the office, she will head up our recruiting efforts as we begin to search for talented players and high-quality humans to join our program in our pursuit of championships. Overall, she will be a fantastic addition to our staff who will teach, inspire and motivate, and I could not be more excited for the positive impact she will have on the K-State Soccer program and our student-athletes.”
Prior to coming to the Little Apple, McClure spent four seasons as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Wyoming. She helped guide the Cowgirls to a Mountain West Conference regular-season title during her second season in 2022, ending with an 8-6-6 overall record, which included a 6-3-2 league mark.
“I am extremely proud and excited to be joining the Wildcat family,” said McClure about her appointment. “Colleen has been an amazing influence on my coaching career and I am so grateful for the opportunity to help lead this program with her. Her energy is contagious and her commitment to developing young women is something I truly admire. K-State has all of the tools to allow student-athletes to thrive. My husband and I can’t wait to start our lives in Manhattan.”
McClure primarily worked with the offensive third during her second and third seasons. The Cowgirls tallied 26 goals in 2023. They enjoyed seven multi-goal contests, including a five-goal outburst against Colorado College, which marked the largest margin of victory over a league foe in a shutout in program history.
McClure played a role in the Cowgirls leading the Mountain West at 1.4 goals scored per contest with a total of 28 goals scored in 2022. Wyoming also logged eight games in which it scored at least twice and four contests where it scored three or more goals. She also mentored two All-Mountain West Conference First Team recipients, including the Mountain West Conference Offensive Player of the Year, Jamie Tatum.
In McClure’s first year, she helped lead the Cowgirls to a season where they netted 30 goals, which was third best in the Mountain West Conference. That offensive output included a six-goal effort against Nevada, which was the most goals scored ever for the Cowgirls against a league foe. Wyoming tallied at least three goals on five different occasions.
Prior to Wyoming, McClure was an assistant coach at James Madison for the 2020 season and worked with Corbin.
McClure started her coaching career at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pennsylvania during the 2017 to 2019 seasons where she attained a Master of Arts degree in Organization Management. In her time with the Cougars, the team went a combined 32-8-4 in two seasons which included trips to the 2017 NCAA Division III Round of 32 and the 2018 NCAA Division III Elite Eight.
In the 2018 season, McClure was part of a coaching staff that was named the NCAA Division III Mid-Atlantic Regional Coaching Staff of the Year by the United Soccer Coaches.
McClure, a native of Eastampton, New Jersey, played collegiately at Monmouth University from 2013 to 2016 and attained a bachelor’s degree in health studies in 2017.
Her playing career included being named to the 2016 NSCAA/USC All-Region First Team, 2016 NSCAA/USC Division I Scholar All-American, three-time All-Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) First Team selection and 2013 MAAC All-Rookie Team honors. She helped Monmouth to four regular season MAAC titles, postseason tournament crowns in 2013 and 2016 which led to two NCAA Tournament appearances.
Elissa Post | Assistant Coach
Elissa Post enters her first season as assistant coach on head coach Colleen Corbin's staff. This is Post's second stint at K-State, as she served as a volunteer coach with the Wildcats for three seasons from 2018-20 before departing for Wofford.
Post’s responsibilities with the program will include: video analysis and scouting, on-field instruction with K-State’s student-athletes and assisting at K-State’s various camps and clinics.
Before returning to Manhattan, Post was an assistant coach at Wofford in 2021, associate head coach in 2022 and was the head coach of the Terriers in the 2023 and 2024.
During her time in the head chair, Post carded an overall record of 11-23-6. In the 2024 season, Post guided the program to a 6-12-2 overall record. At the conclusion of the season, Post saw six of her players garner College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honors and freshman forward Kate Markey was named to the SoCon All-Freshman Team.
In her first season as head coach, the team was 5-11-4 overall and were 2-5-2 in the Southern Conference. Following the season, Ines Obradovac was named second team All-Southern Conference.
As an assistant coach, Post helped guide the Terriers to one of their best seasons in recent history in 2022. After a 5-12-2 mark in 2021, Post moved up to the associate head coach role and lifted the squad to a 9-8-3 record with a 3-4-2 SoCon record. It was the first winning season for the program since 2013 (8-5-6) the and most overall wins since claiming 10 triumphs in 2000. With seven shutout wins in 2022, the Terriers tallied their highest number of clean sheets since eight in 2013.
Prior to her first stint in Manhattan, Post served as an assistant coach at Emporia State from 2016-18. With the Hornets, she was responsible for facilitating practice plans, conditioning and recovery of student-athletes while also coordinating recruiting efforts. Eleven players earned MIAA All-Academic honors during her time with Emporia State while seven were selected to the All-MIAA Team.
Before her time at Emporia State, Post served as a youth club coach with Sporting Kaw Valley in Manhattan, as she helped with the development of the U12 boys and the high school girls programs.
Post also worked as a KSYSA staff assistant coach for the 2001-02 girls program. She also served as the junior varsity girls head coach and an assistant varsity coach with Manhattan High School in two stints with the program, the first from 2014-16 and the second in 2018.
She is certified with NSCAA goalkeeper level 1, USSF national B, C, D and E licenses and NFHS fundamentals of coaching, concussion certified and first aid certified.
Post graduated from Kansas State in 2015 with a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education with an emphasis in social studies. In 2018, Post completed her Master of Science degree in HPER from Emporia State. She and her wife, Felicity, have a daughter, Serenity, and a dog, Luna.
Haley Dionision | Director of Operations
Haley Dionisio is in her third season as a member of Dibbini’s staff, serving the program as the Director of Soccer and Tennis Operations.
Within her role as the Director of Women’s Soccer and Tennis Operations, Dionisio is responsible for coordination of staff and team travel, money and budget management, organization of official and unofficial recruiting visits, facility and officials reservations and team equipment purchases.
Prior to joining the staffs of the K-State soccer and tennis programs, Dionisio served as K-State’s Assistant Director of Compliance in 2021-22 and K-State’s Compliance Coordinator in 2020-21.
Dionisio received her bachelor of science in sport management from Florida State in May of 2019 and completed her Master of Science in sport management from Florida State in May of 2020.
While at Florida State, Dionisio served as the Compliance Graduate Assistant in 2019-20.
