Adam Christensen joins the Lee University Men’s soccer team in the spring of 2025.
Prior to joining Lee University, Adam Christensen served as the Director of Recruiting and Analytics at Trine University in Angola, Ind. during the 2024 season. While at Trine, he played a key role in helping the program achieve its first-ever regular-season conference championship. The team went undefeated in conference play and secured the top seed in the MIAA Tournament.
In 2023, Christensen was the Head Women’s Soccer Coach at West Virginia Wesleyan College. In his lone season, he successfully transformed the program’s culture and emphasized academic excellence. Under his leadership, the team’s average semester GPA rose from 3.3 to 3.65, earning 17 Academic All-MEC selections and 9 MEC Commissioner’s Honor Roll honors. Christensen spent the 2021-2023 seasons in Conference Carolinas (NCAA D2) as a consultant with the men's program at Francis Marion University and as an assistant with Barton College.
Before coaching at the NCAA Division II level, Adam gained valuable experience as both a head coach and assistant coach at the college club levels. He served as the head coach for the University of Florida Women's Soccer Club (U23) and as an assistant coach for the men's U23 team. During his two years at The University of Florida, he accumulated an impressive 23-6-3 overall record securing three tournament championships.
At the high school level, Christensen was the WSOC head coach at Freedom High School for two seasons, the head MSOC coach at Oak Hall High School (Fla.) for two seasons, and head MSOC coach at The Rock School (Fla.) for one season. While at The Rock School in 2019, Christensen led the Lions to a (15-0) overall record while outscoring their opponents 87-16 on their way to a FCAPPS State Championship. He also served as the assistant coach for Santa Fe High School in Alachua, FL, in 2017.
Christensen is also a published author in the field of analytical chemistry, he has co-founded three companies. In 2020 he was the Democratic Nominee for Florida’s Third Congressional District becoming the youngest national nominee for congress in 2020 at the age of 25. Adam is married to Kristen Christensen and the two of them have two dogs, Buster and Pummel.
As an athlete, Christensen competed in three sports at the collegiate level. He ran track and cross country for Lee University, played soccer and ran track at Trevecca Nazarene University and ended his career playing soccer at Hampden-Sydney College, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology and a minor in Chemistry in 2016. He earned a master’s in Sports Administration (2024) from Arkansas State University.
