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 Bender Arena 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, DC 20016
Division 1 Dist of Columbia Northeast
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Marsha Harper

Marsha Harper is the seventh head coach in women's soccer history at American University, announced Director of Athletics and Recreation Dr. Billy Walker on December 29, 2019. Harper joined the Eagles after two seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Massachusetts, during which time the Minutewomen went 21-12-4.


Harper was part of a full coaching staff change at UMass, working with head coach Jason Dowiak who was a former mentor and colleague from the University of South Florida. While at UMass, Harper was directly in charge of all internal operations such as the development of practices, recruiting, social media, compliance and admissions for the women's soccer program.


Prior to her time at UMass, Harper spent two seasons at Richmond, another Atlantic 10 Conference program. She has also had assistant coaching stints at Bowling Green State University (2015) and Northwestern State University (2014).


In addition to her tenures as an assistant coach at the collegiate level, the USF double-graduate has spent time coaching at the club and Olympic Developmental levels.


After completing her collegiate playing career, Harper volunteered as an assistant coach at USF in the spring of 2014 while also serving as a staff coach for the Future 50 Soccer Camp.

Harper was a member of the University of Florida women's soccer team for three seasons before transferring to USF in 2011. She served as captain for the Bulls during the 2013 season. The collegiate defender earned her bachelor’s degree in applied science in 2012 and her master’s degree in exercise science at USF in 2014.

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Katie Greenberg

Katie Greenberg enters her first season at American in 2020 and comes to Tenleytown with eight seasons of Division I coaching experience, including the last five at Purdue University.


At Purdue, Greenberg coached the goalkeepers and also served as the coordinator of Purdue’s youth soccer camps. In 2019, Purdue returned to the conference tournament, and Greenberg guided sophomore goalkeeper Marisa Bova to nine shutouts and a 0.81 GAA, which was the lowest goals against allowed by a Purdue keeper since 2007.


The Boilermakers upset No. 1 seed Wisconsin to advance to the Big Ten semifinals in 2019, which ended the Badgers’ 17-game home winning streak. It was only the fourth time in conference history that a No. 8 seed had topped the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament.


She was part of a staff led by Drew Roff that saw the greatest turnaround in program history, as the Boilermakers won 10 games in 2017 and returned to the Big Ten Tournament for the first time since 2009. During that 2017 season, Purdue did not surrender a goal at home for 470 consecutive minutes from Aug. 21 through Oct. 12, the longest such streak in program history. Under Greenberg’s guidance, two Boilermakers were named to the Big Ten All-Freshman Team.


Prior to her time in West Lafayette, Greenberg spent three seasons at Illinois State University, also working under Drew Roff. Greenberg helped the Redbirds to three straight Missouri Valley Conference Tournament championships and three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances.


Greenberg also coached Aryn Newsom to Goalkeeper of the Year accolades in 2013 after the junior compiled a 0.33 goals against average in league play. She also coached four-time MVC Player of the Year, Rachel Tejada, who played a huge role in Illinois State running up a 46-18-5 ledger from 2012-14.


As a player at Ohio State University, Greenberg helped lead the Buckeyes to a share of the Big Ten title in 2010 and an appearance in the national semifinals at the NCAA College Cup. She was the starting goalkeeper as OSU posted shutouts against St. Francis (Pa.), Dayton and Georgetown in the NCAA Tournament that year.


She was named to the College Cup All-Tournament Team after making 10 saves in a 1-0 loss to a Notre Dame team that went on to win the national title. She started every game as a senior in 2011 as the Buckeyes advanced to the sweet sixteen round of the NCAA Tournament.


Greenberg has served as an assistant on the club level with the GK 1 Goalkeeper Academy and Worthington Crew Juniors, both of Columbus, Ohio, and the Fusion Soccer Club of Normal, Ill.


She holds a USSF National “B” License and earned a master’s degree in sport psychology from Illinois State.


A native of nearby Sterling, Va., the former Katie Baumgardner married Dan Greenberg in January 2018.

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