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Amy Helliwell enters her 17th year as Rose-Hulman women's soccer coach in the 2025-26 academic year after leading the Fightin' Engineers into their second and third NCAA Division III Tournament appearance in program history in 2019 and 2022. She also enters her 8th year as the Senior Woman Administrator for the Rose-Hulman athletic department.
Helliwell's teams have a 46-20-14 mark over the past five seasons. In 16 years at Rose-Hulman, her career record stands at 149-111-26 overall and 87-40-13 in conference play.
In 2022, Helliwell earned her third HCAC Coach of the Year award in 2022 after leading the Fightin' Engineers to a 10-3-6 record and 6-0-3 record in the HCAC. The Fightin' Engineers won the HCAC Tournament title at Hanover and advanced to the NCAA Tournament where they fell to Ohio Northern on a goal in the 83rd minute. The Fightin' Engineers defense set records including 13 straight games without a loss, 8 consecutive clean sheets, and 865 consecutive minutes without allowing a goal.
Helliwell was named Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year for the second time in 2019 after leading Rose-Hulman to both the league regular season and conference tournament championships. The 2019 team finished 15-5-1 overall and 8-0-1 in league play, and did not lose a match from Sept. 21 until its 1-0 NCAA Tournament overtime loss on Nov. 16.
The 2019 squad featured both the HCAC offensive (Jessica Wells) and defensive (Christina Rogers) Most Valuable Player award winners. Rose-Hulman outscored the opposition 30-5 during the HCAC regular season to win the league title.
The most recent teams continued the tradition of excellence despite the Covid-19 pandemic. Rose-Hulman finished as the 2020-21 HCAC runner-up and compiled a 12-3-2 record with a 7-1-1 conference mark in 2021.
Helliwell's teams have a tradition of ranking among the top defensive squads in the nation. In 2013, the Fightin' Engineers finished No. 3 nationally with a .924 save percentage, and in 2014 the team was No. 5 nationally at .900. The 2015 team allowed just 20 goals for a 1.10 goals against average. In 2017, Rose-Hulman recorded seven shutouts and allowed just 21 goals in 18 matches.
Recent graduate Lucinda Combs completed a historic career in 2015 with school records of 40 wins, 36 shutouts, 464 saves, an .885 save percentage and a 0.78 goals against average. Defenders have also earned regional and national acclaim, highlighted by 2014 first-team CoSIDA Academic All-American honors for Mallory McDevitt.
In 2009, Helliwell inherited the program in August and led the Fightin' Engineers to a regular season conference championship. Rose-Hulman earned the top seed for the league tournament that year on the heels of a win at fellow league co-champion Hanover College. Eventual NCAA Tournament representative Transylvania University ended the magical run in the league tournament with a narrow 1-0 victory.
Helliwell came to Rose-Hulman after spending the last 11 years as head coach at Greenwood High School in Kentucky, where she led squad to six state Final Four appearances. Her teams combined for a 207-64-1 record with seven district championships, six regional and sectional titles, and the six Final Four appearances.
She also served as coach of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association All-Star Game in 2001, 2005 and 2008, and was named Southern Kentucky Soccer Referees Association Coach of the Year from 2001-05 and in 2008. Her career also includes serving as a mathematics teacher at Greenwood High School for 13 years.
In 2022, Helliwell was honored with a place in the Kentucky Girls High School Soccer Coaches Association Hall of Fame for her efforts as a prep coach.
Helliwell earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and secondary education from the University of Southern Indiana in 1996 and obtained a master's degree in education guidance counseling from Western Kentucky University in 2003. She was a four-year varsity soccer player, all-state honoree at team captain during her prep career at Evansville Reitz Memorial High School.
Helliwell and her husband Sean, the men's soccer coach at Rose-Hulman, reside in Terre Haute.
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