Women's Soccer
- Title:
- Director of Soccer Operations
- Email:
- sgreene@athletics.ucla.edu
Former Northwestern standout Sam Greene completed her second season as Associate Head Coach, her fifth season as a Bruin coach, and her ninth season on the UCLA staff in 2021.ย
Greene serves as the teamโs recruiting coordinator and has brought in three Top 10 recruiting classes in each of her four years in the role, including the No. 1 classes in 2020 and 2022 and the No. 2 class in 2019.
In addition to her recruiting duties, Greene focuses on attacking play and holistic player development, and contributes to all aspects of the program, including coaching, scouting, video analysis, marketing and branding including NIL, camp design and curriculum development.
UCLAโs Director of Soccer Operations from 2013-16, Greene moved into a volunteer assistant coach role in the summer of 2017 and helped guide the Bruins to the College Cup that year. She was promoted to assistant coach in 2018 and helped coach the Bruins to the quarterfinals that year and back to the College Cup in 2019. In 2020, after guiding UCLA to the Pac-12 title, she and the Bruin coaching staff were selected by the United Soccer Coaches as the Pacific Region Coaching Staff of the Year. She helped lead the Bruins to a second consecutive Pac-12 Championship in 2021, along with an unbeaten regular season record.ย
Greene has a U.S. Soccer Federation Senior โAโ License. In 2018, she was selected to the United Soccer Coaches 30 under 30 program.
A four-year letterwinner at Northwestern, Greene was a two-time Academic All-Big Ten soccer player and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar during her senior year. She finished her career ranked fourth on Northwesternโs career (16) and single-season (eight) assists lists and fifth on the career games played list (78). She graduated from Northwestern in 2011 with a degree in Learning and Organizational Change.
Greene and her wife, Alicia Greene, currently reside in Redondo Beach, Calif.
