Title: | Volunteer Assistant Coach |
Previous College: | Colorado College B.A. '18, Lesley M.Ed. '21 |
Nico Calabria joins the Regis women's soccer program as a volunteer assistant coach starting in the 2024 season.
Calabria has been a member of Team USA within US Amputee Soccer and the American Amputee Soccer Association, serving as team captain at the 2014, 2018, and 2022 Amputee Soccer World Cups. He is the all-time leading goal scorer for Team USA, earning 33 goals in 42 international appearances. At the 2022 Amputee Soccer World Cup, he was the runner-up for the Golden Boot Award after collecting eight goals and three assists during that tournament. He has also been an AASA board member, serving as director of development and player representative.
Calabria is currently the lead educator for the Bionic Project, which seeks to eliminate disability bias through education, story, and sport. He is in charge of curriculum development, DEI consultation, in-person teaching in K-12 schools, program development, and event planning. Previously, Calabria taught seventh grade social studies at Concord Middle School and ninth & 10th grade history at Concord-Carlisle Regional High School, where he was also the head junior varsity coach for boys' soccer.
Calabria was the first person ever to summit 19,331-foot Mount Kilimanjaro on crutches. In the process, he raised more than $100,000 for the Free Wheelchair Mission. He was named MVP of both the 2022 World Cup Qualifying tournament and the 2023 US Amputee Soccer Cup. The director and founder of the New England Revolution Amputee Soccer Club, he received Heroes Among Us Award from the Boston Celtics and was the subject of Nico’s Challenge, an award-winning short documentary film.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in education and history from Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 2018 and his Master of Education degree in secondary social studies from Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass., in 2021.