Katie Greenberg, who was hired on staff as an assistant for American University women's soccer in March, 2020, completed her fourth season with the Eagles in 2023 and was then promoted to Associate Head Coach. Greenberg serves as both the defensive coordinator and the recruiting coordinator for the Eagles.

In her time at American, she has helped coach three All-Patriot League honorees in Asia Horne (2021, 2022), Tate Jordan (2021) and Natalie Oliver (2022), while also working with the goalkeepers.

She guided Julia Kato to a remarkable freshman campaign between the pipes in 2022, earning a Patriot League Goalkeeper of the Week award and a shutout streak that stretched over four games and 246 minutes. It was AU’s first Goalkeeper of the Week award since 2015.

In the condensed spring 2021 season, Greenberg worked directly with the goalkeepers, helping Ryleigh Brown finish her career in the program’s all-time top five in three categories: career saves (197), minutes played as a keeper (3,364), and games played as a keeper (40).

She joined Coach Harper’s staff in March 2020 and came to Tenleytown with eight seasons of Division I coaching experience, including the previous 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.