Sarah Greer finished her second season as head
women's lacrosse coach at her alma mater, Kutztown University in
2009.
In the 2009 season, the Golden Bears finished with a
2-14 overall record and 0-10 in the their first season in the PSAC
East. Greer coached two PSAC East second team athletes. The Golden
Bears were an independent in the 2008 season, after an 18-year
hiatus, finished with an overall record of 2-8.
Greer returns to Kutztown after a four-year stint at
Gwynedd-Mercy College, where she served as the head field hockey
coach and assistant lacrosse coach. In her three seasons with the
Lady Griffins lacrosse program, Greer served under head coach Sarah
Quintois, while fulfilling temporary head coaching duties in parts
of two seasons. In her three years as assistant coach, the squad was
23-23 and was a two-time Pennsylvania Athletic Conference
semifinalist. As field hockey coach, Greer stressed excellence on
the field and in the classroom, as her team was honored with the
prestigious National Field Hockey Coaches Association Academic award
in all four of her years as head coach.
Greer began coaching in the collegiate ranks as a
part-time assistant with the KU field hockey team in 2001, serving
under her mother, head field hockey coach Betty Wesner.
Her first full-time coaching position came the
following year in 2002 at Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., where
she served as an assistant coach in both field hockey and lacrosse.
In her time as a player at Kutztown, Greer, then
Sarah Wesner, was the definition of a student-athlete. She was the
captain of the field hockey team and also took home the team’s
coach's award in 2000. She was a N4A Student-Athlete Achievement
Award and a Honda Inspiration Award nominee that season, and served
as secretary on Kutztown’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. In
her freshman season, she was a member of the 1997 squad that fell in
the title game to PSAC foe and national powerhouse Bloomsburg. In
1999 she finished as the teams second leading scorer and led the
team in assists.
Greer is a 1996 graduate of Exeter High School, and
graduated from Kutztown with a degree in social work and a minor in
anthropology in 2002. While coaching at Gwynedd-Mercy, Greer
obtained a master’s degree in school counseling in 2006.
Greer and her husband, Samuel, a Philadelphia
firefighter and marine reservist, reside in Philadelphia with their
daughters, Riley Catherine, 2, and Grace Elizabeth, who was born
April 1, 2009.
Beth Wheeler enters her second year as the
assistant coach of both field hockey and women’s lacrosse at KU.
Prior to KU, she
was a four-year member of the Roanoke College field hockey team and
a three-year member of Roanoke’s lacrosse team. While at Roanoke,
she was a member of the program's first Old Dominion Athletic
Conference Championship field hockey team in 2002. Wheeler came to KU
from Saint James School, a boarding school in Saint James, Md.,
where she coached the girls varsity field hockey team to a 12-3-2
record and a league championship. She is a graduate of the
2008 NCAA Women Coaches Academy.
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Head Coach Sarah Greer