The search for a new NIU women’s soccer coach will end Friday and a new one is expected to be named by the end of May or beginning of June.

“We will accept applications until [Friday] and then narrow it down to two or three candidates from there,” NIU assistant athletics director Stacy Allie said.

The list of applicants and potential coaches is not limited to coaches with college coaching experience. The winner of the job could be a current assistant, pro player or soccer club coach, Allie said.

“I’m sure that [NIU Athletics Director] Jim Phillips will find the best coach possible,” junior Angeline Impelido said. “It was obvious we needed a change because we need to make it to the playoffs and finish over .500.”

Not among the list of potential candidates is former NIU assistant Pete Pososki, who accepted an assistant coaching job at the University of Pennsylvania.

“[Pososki] has turned in his resignation and will start at Penn in mid-May,” Allie said.

Last season was Pososki’s first as an assistant at NIU.

Pososki was looked at for the head coaching job at NIU, but Impelido said that they would like someone with more experience.

“Pete handled the last two weeks of games and he ran practices, but I think that [Phillips] would like someone with more experience.”