Chloe Roberts joined the staff of head coach Daniel Clitnovici and the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi soccer program as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator in April 2024, and in June 2025, she was officially elevated to the role of Associate Head Coach. The 2025 season will be her second with the program.
In her first season on the Island, Roberts helped lead the Islanders to their most successful season in program history, with the team putting together its first winning season while also setting numerous other program records, including longest unbeaten streak (7 games), longest winning streak (5 games), most home wins (6), most consecutive shutouts (4) and most shutouts in conference play (6). In addition to these, the Islanders also came in second in the Southland Conference standings for their highest-ever regular season finish and matched their best postseason performance by advancing to the semifinals of the Southland Conference Women's Soccer Championships.
Roberts joined A&M-Corpus Christi after spending two seasons as an assistant coach at Marshall. In her first season with the Herd, she helped them achieve an eight-point improvement in the conference standings from the previous season.
Prior to her stint at Marshall, the Plymouth, England native spent the previous eight years with the University of Nebraska-Kearney, where she held multiple leadership roles. She was a graduate assistant from 2014 to 2016, the assistant coach in the fall of 2016, and was then elevated to the head coach from 2017 to 2021. During the time Roberts was the head coach, the Lopers set records in save percentage (.892) and goals against average (0.97) in 2019.
Before beginning her coaching career, Roberts played for the U16-U23 England National Teams in addition to being a four-year letterwinner at the University of North Alabama where she left as one of the most decorated student-athletes in program history.
She set numerous records and won several awards during her time with the Lions, including the 2009 Gulf South Conference Freshman of the Year when she scored a program record 32 goals in a season and tallied a single-season program record 79 points. She was named National Player of the Year in 2011 and won the 2011 GSC Player of the Year, was first-team all-GSC four times, and was a four-time Division II All-American. Roberts was named the GSC Player of the Decade (2009-12) in 2020 and is the all-time leader in UNA women's soccer history with 93 goals, whilst also being tied for the program lead in career assists at 51. On September 30, 2023, Roberts was inducted into the UNA Athletic Hall of Fame.
From 2011-2013, Roberts also played for the Colorado Rapids, a professional women's soccer team coached by Clitnovici at the time.
"I've been fortunate enough to have closely watched Chloe grow from a top-level player who received all the accolades to a very good coach and role model," Clitnovici said. "She is guided by her moral compass and has a positive way of motivating and leading our student-athletes. She is a great example of the empowerment we search for in all our student-athletes and staff. I coached her 13 years ago, and to now have her work alongside me is something I'm really proud of. We are very happy to have Chloe on the Island moving this program forward and to call her a colleague and friend."
Roberts graduated from the University of North Alabama in 2013 with a bachelor's degree in fitness management. She then earned her master's degree in exercise science from the University of Nebraska-Kearney in 2016.
