Bio entering 2024 season.
Chassion Griggs enters his ninth season as a full-time assistant, and third as Associate Head Coach. He previously served as an assistant coach and volunteer assistant coach under Mike Friesen and works with the sides keepers.
In 2023, Griggs helped the Aztecs to their sixth Mountain West title since his arrival on The Mesa. The Scarlet and Black finished with a 14-3-3 record including going 9-1-1 in conference matches.
Senior keeper Alexa Madueno, under Griggs’ tutelage, recorded the second 100+ save season in program history in 2023, following up 92 saves in 2022. Her 308 saves rank second in school history behind Aubree Southwick (338). Madueno also ranks in the top ten in the SDSU record book in career goals against average (1.26, 7th) and shutouts (22, 4th). In 2020, Madueno was the first true freshman keeper to start every game in a season for SDSU since Aubree Southwick in 2007 and is the third player, and only true freshman, to play every minute in a season for the Aztecs since Stephanie Pearson in 2003.
In 2019, he guided Brooke Lisowski to inclusion on the Mountain West All-Newcomer Team. The graduate transfer posted a 10-9-1 overall record but was 8-3-0 in conference play. She recorded five shutouts, four in league play, with a 1.72 goals against average.
As an official member of the coaching staff in 2017, Griggs helped the Aztecs win their first Mountain West tournament title since 2014, and return to the NCAA tournament for the first time in three years. Working with the keepers, Griggs mentored a group that posted eight shutouts and allowed one goal or less in 12 of SDSU’s final 15 games. Starting keeper Gabby English blanked a pair of foes in the conference tournament to help lead the Aztecs to the title. She earned MW all-tournament recognition for her efforts.
In his two seasons (2014, 2016) as a volunteer assistant coach, the Aztecs posted a record of 25-12-6 (15-4-3 Mountain West), won an MW regular-season and tournament title, and advanced to the NCAA Championship. He tutored four-year letter-winning goalkeeper Melanie Vaughn, who ended up being a three-time all-MW tournament performer and an all-conference second-team goalkeeper her senior campaign.
Griggs brought to Montezuma Mesa six years of collegiate coaching experience from his time spent at Point Loma Nazarene and Cuyamaca College. As an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the Sea Lions, he guided the PLNU men’s team to its best finish in eight seasons and coached the goalkeeping unit to the 15th-best goals-against average in the nation. During his time with the women’s team, he helped PLNU to a PacWest title and an NCAA appearance. Griggs also mentored a goalkeeping group that produced the second-best GAA nationally and the conference goalie of the year, who went on to earn NSCAA all-West Region accolades.
Prior to his time at Point Loma Nazarene, Griggs coached for two seasons at Cuyamaca College. During his stint with the men’s team in Rancho San Diego, the Coyotes posted back-to-back winning seasons and finished second in their league twice. Griggs also guided Cuyamaca’s goalie to back-to-back conference goalkeeper-of-the-year awards.
Outside of the college ranks, Griggs was the director of goalkeeping and a head coach for the San Diego United club team, and a coach for the San Diego Surf Soccer Club.
Griggs is a 2009 graduate of SUM Bible College & Theological Seminary in El Dorado Hills, Calif., and received his Master’s Degree from Liberty University in 2014.