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Beth Goetz will be in her 11th season as head coach of the UMSL women's soccer program heading into the 2007 season, and she has continued to guide the team to success year after year. Last year, Goetz reached a personal milestone, recording her 100th career win with a 1-0 victory over Wisconsin-Parkside on September 22, 2006. The team finished with a 12-7-1 overall record on the year, the eighth winning season under Goetz in her ten years. She also led the team to it's ninth consecutive appearance in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament. 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.
Goetz served as interim coach in 1997 and was named the head coach in March 1998, becoming the second head coach in UMSL 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. During her nine seasons as head coach, Goetz has led UMSL to a 96-76-6 record, including three straight, 13-win seasons. 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 22 players who have earned all-confernece recognition, including nine players who were first team all-conference selections and each of those nine were in the past five years. Also during the past five years, Goetz has coached a total of seven 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, an NAIA school. Goetz graduated from Clemson University with a degree in psychology and earned a Masters in Education from UMSL in 1999. She serves as the Assistant Athletic Director at UMSL, overseeing the sports of softball, men's and women's golf, and the student services departments, including academic services, sports medicine and sports information. Goetz also serves as the Senior Woman Administrator for the athletic department.
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