Cris Lewis enters her first season on staff at Utah State in 2025. She serves as an assistant coach and as the team's goalkeepers coach.
Lewis joins the Aggies after spending the past three years as the Director of Programming and Elite Girls Goalkeeping for Legends FC San Diego Del Mar (formerly DMCV Sharks), an ECNL club based in San Diego, California. She also spent two years as the head coach of Century High School girls soccer and Director of Player Development at Bridge City Soccer Academy in Hillsboro, Oregon, after a two-year stint on staff at Oregon (2018-19), where she served as an assistant coach alongside Martins.
With the Ducks, Lewis helped mentor the team’s goalkeepers and assisted with the defense. During her first season in Eugene in 2018, Lewis helped goalkeeper Halla Hinriksdottir match the program’s season record for shutouts (7) and wins (9). Hinriksdottir’s 1.16 goals against average was the sixth-best in program history.
Prior to her stint at Oregon, Lewis spent three seasons on staff at her alma mater, Portland State, first as a volunteer assistant, before being elevated to a full-time assistant for the 2015 and 2016 seasons.
Lewis’ coaching career began at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, where she served as the goalkeepers coach during the 2011 season as the team posted a 10-6-4 record. Lewis then moved to Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, to instruct the goalkeepers from 2012-13. She helped guide the Penguins to a 10-4-2 record in 2013.
Lewis enjoyed a decorated playing career at both the collegiate and professional levels. At Portland State, she earned all-Big Sky honors all four seasons of her career and was named the Big Sky Defensive MVP as a senior in 2009 after leading the Vikings to the program’s first outright Big Sky regular-season title as she set a then-PSU single-season record for shutouts with eight.
Lewis holds program career records for saves (375), saves per match (5.68) and goalkeeper wins (24). Additionally, she is tied for the career lead in shutouts with 17. Following her collegiate career, Lewis was a reserve goalkeeper for the NWSL’s Portland Thorns from 2013-15.
Throughout her time at PSU and with the Thorns, Lewis concurrently served as a team coach at Tualatin Hills United Soccer Club from 2009-17, as well as the director of goalkeeping from 2016-17. She was the head coach of the Tualatin Hills squad that won the 2016 U-13 President’s Cup, and an assistant for the team that won the 2014 U-16 Oregon State Cup.
A native of Burien, Washington, Lewis earned a degree in physical education and exercise from Portland State with a minor in Spanish. She received her USSF Goalkeeping "C" License August 2024 and USSF "A" License July 2025.