MM 5.15: Maryland women’s soccer adds assistant Sarah Butler to coaching staff 

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On Tuesday, Maryland women’s head soccer coach Meghan Ryan Nemzer announced that former Saint Francis head coach Sarah Butler will join the coaching staff for the fall season.

In 2023, Butler became the fifth-fastest Saint Francis head coach to reach 10 wins. The year prior, she led the Red Flash to a seven-win campaign and the NEC Conference Tournament quarterfinals.

Before her time at Saint Francis, Butler spent time coaching at St. Bonaventure, Eastern Kentucky and Division III Houghton College in western New York.

Butler had an impressive playing career, too, slotting in at goalkeeper for five years at Division III Messiah College in Pennsylvania. While there, she was an All-American in her senior season and was a part of the Division III national title runner-up squad in 2016. In her career, she played a total of 60 games, stopping 90 shots and allowing just 14 goals.

Nemzer will certainly hope that Butler’s combined playing and coaching experience can aid the Terps in their upcoming campaign after they went 3-10-5 in 2023.

In other news

Maryland women’s tennis secured graduate transfer Danielle Hack from UMass.

Former Maryland men’s basketball player Sarunas Jasikevicius has coached Fenerbache to the Euro League Final Four.