Soccer, Girls: Varsity

Carly Barbato

Head Coach

Carly Barbato joined the Deerfield community from the University of New Hampshire, where she served in many roles during her tenure, including assistant women’s soccer coach, academic support coordinator for student-athletes, and assistant athletic director for compliance.  At Deerfield, Barbato works in the Athletics Office as the Sports Information Director and coaches the girls varsity soccer team.  Barbato has ten years combined coaching experience.  A native of Ottawa, Ontario, Barbato played collegiately at St. Lawrence University, starting at goalkeeper in all 66 games from 2003-06.  She helped captain the team in her senior season and earned All-Liberty League honorable mention in her junior and senior years.  She later earned her master’s degree in Educational Leadership from Loyola University Maryland, where she also served as an assistant women’s soccer coach - specifically coaching the goalkeepers.  She helped the Greyhounds to a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference title and automatic NCAA tournament appearance with Greyhound goalkeeper earning MAAC Defensive Player of the Year. She and her husband Brian live on campus in Field Dorm with their two sons, Charlie and Teddy.

Edgar Arceo

Assistant Coach

Originally from California, Edgar is a graduate of Kenyon College. While at Kenyon, Edgar studied psychology and philosophy, and played for the men’s soccer program, captaining the team his senior year. After college, Edgar pursued his passion for cultures, traveling to five different continents with the same trusty backpack. While in South America, Edgar worked as a teacher in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil while studying Portuguese. Passionate about youth development through education and sport, Edgar also worked for an international non-profit organization committed to the cause in both Latin America and Africa. Upon returning to the United States, Edgar joined the faculty at The Thacher School in Ojai, California. There, Edgar served as the School’s inaugural Fisher Fellow, in which he taught AP Psychology and Spanish. He also helped coach soccer, track, and cross-country, led camping trips, and instructed freshman riders in the Horse Program. Currently, Edgar spends his summers at the Language School through Middlebury College, completing a M.A. in Spanish Language and Literature. He is thrilled to be joining the Deerfield Community as a Penn Fellow, and eagerly looks forward to “collaborating with such a fun and excellent community of teachers and learners.”

Molly Nickerson

Assistant Coach

Molly came to Deerfield in 2018 after three years in the science department at the Hotchkiss School. She was a UPenn Teaching Fellow while at Hotchkiss, earning her M.S.Ed. before joining the Hotchkiss faculty full-time at the end of the Fellows program. At Deerfield, Molly teaches AP Biology and Biology I Accelerated, lives in the dorm, and is a member of the Varsity Soccer and JV Lacrosse coaching staffs. As a Brown University graduate with a degree in biology, Molly also found a love for running and rock climbing in college and trained for long distance races. As a Boston area native, she is looking forward to finding new routes to run and climb in the western half of the state.