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Beth Goetz | Women's Soccer Head Coach/Assistant Director of Athletics/SWA
P: 314-516-5646
E: goetzm@umsl.edu
The 2008 campaign marks the 12th year for Beth Goetz as head coach of the UMSL women's soccer program. Year after year, she continues to guide the team to success, producing eight winning seasons under her direction.
She has a coaching mark of 120-90-9 and has directed UMSL to 10 consecutive GLVC Tournaments.
Last year, Goetz guided her squad to a 12-7-3 record and a berth in the league tourney, where the Tritons played their way to the championship game, falling in penalty kicks to Drury.
During the 2006 season, Goetz reached a personal milestone, recording her 100th career win with a 1-0 victory over Wisconsin-Parkside on September 22. The team finished with a 12-7-1 overall record on the year.
In 2005, Goetz guided the team to its eighth straight appearance in the GLVC Tournament, finishing with a 12-8 overall record and an 8-5 record in conference play.
In the 2003 season, Goetz led UMSL to the semifinals of the GLVC Tournament for the fourth consecutive season. The team finished with a 13-6-1 record that year. UMSL had a second place finish in the GLVC regular season in 2002 after finishing third in 2000 and 2001. The second place finish was the best finish for UMSL in the GLVC since joining the conference. In 2001, UM-St. Louis added a second place finish in the GLVC Tournament. In 2000, Goetz earned Co-Coach of the Year honors for the Great Lakes Valley Conference after leading UMSL to a third place finish, four spots higher than the seventh place finish the year before.
Goetz served as interim coach in 1997 and was named the head coach in March 1998, becoming the second head coach in program history. She took over as interim coach after Ken Hudson, the first head coach in UMSL history and an UMSL Sports Hall of Famer, resigned just prior to the start of the 1997 season. Goetz had served as an assistant coach for Hudson during the 1996 season.
In her first season, Goetz took over just days before the start of the 1997 season and guided UM-St. Louis to a 10-9 record and an eighth place finish in the GLVC.
The next two seasons saw UMSL finish at 7-12-0 in 1998 and 7-12-1 in 1999. UMSL improved in the conference standings those years as well, finishing seventh in both seasons before the jump to third in the 2000 season.
Under Goetz’s guidance, UM-St. Louis has had 26 players who have earned all-conference recognition, including 10 players who were first team all-conference selections and each of those 10 were in the past six years. Also during the past six years, Goetz has coached a total of eight all-region players.
Prior to coming to UMSL as an assistant coach in 1996, Goetz played for two seasons at Clemson University. She was a defender for the Tigers as the team finished 15-4-1 in 1994 and 14-7 in 1995. Before attending Clemson, Goetz earned All-American accolades at Brevard College.
Goetz graduated from Clemson University with a degree in psychology and earned a Masters in Education from UMSL in 1999. She serves as an Assistant Director of Athletics at UMSL and is the Senior Woman’s Administrator.
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