Lisa Fraser has been named the women’s...

Lisa Fraser has been named the women’s soccer coach at UC Irvine, replacing Janu Juarez, who stepped down after three seasons.

Fraser coached women’s soccer at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland from 1985-88. She began her career as a head soccer coach at Kenyon College in Ohio in 1984 after serving as a men’s and women’s assistant at her alma mater, Sonoma State, in 1983.

Fraser graduated from Sonoma with a bachelor of arts in physical education and was a member of the school’s 1984 Division II Northern California championship soccer team.

She will conduct a meeting for prospective women’s soccer team members in Irvine’s Crawford Hall at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 22.