South Dakota head coach Mandy Green is slated to begin her eighth season at the helm of the Coyote women’s soccer team in 2017. She was named to the position on March 30, 2010.
A year removed from reaching the 2015 Summit League Tournament, the Coyotes split the conference season in 2016 with a 4-4-0 record in Summit play. South Dakota won five out of eight home games at the First Bank & Trust Soccer Complex in 2016 with four Summit victories. The Coyotes also defeated Summit League regular season champion North Dakota State 4-0 and the NCAA Tournament qualifier South Dakota State 2-1 during the regular season. Junior defender Katlin Ptacek was named to the all-Summit League second team while freshmen Taryn LaBree and Kellee Willer earned a spot on the Summit's all-Freshmen Team following the 2016 season.
Green has a 35-81-15 record in seven years with the Coyotes, guiding the program to the Division I level while also accumulating the second-most wins by a coach in program history.
Notable athletes during Green’s tenure include goalkeeper Mackenzie Viktor, who ranks second in program history for wins and shutouts, and striker Corey Strang, who ranks third for game-winning goals and fifth for total points.
Green has coached an Academic All-American in Elena Tsakakis, six all-Summit League honorees (Jenny Teslow, Viktor, two-time honoree in Strang, Kasha Meyer and Katlin Ptacek) and eight academic all-Summit League team members (Erin Bello, two-time honoree in Viktor, two-time honoree in Meyer, two-time honoree in Tskakis and Sammie Villwock).
Prior to South Dakota, Green spent the 2009 season as an assistant coach at Xavier and coached at Minnesota State-Mankato from 2003-08, where she helped build the Mavericks into a Division II power.
Green served as assistant coach from 2003-06 before being promoted to associate head coach in 2006. Green was heavily involved in recruiting, training and management of the MSU soccer program. During her time at Minnesota State, the Mavericks were consistently ranked in the top 25 and made it to the NCAA Division II Sweet 16 three times and won two North Central Conference championships. Minnesota State was ranked as high as No. 4 in the nation in 2007, which was the highest ranking in school history.
Green coached at the University of Utah from 1999-2003, and served as the program's interim head coach for three months starting in Nov. 2001.
Green also has been involved in the Olympic Development Program in Ohio, Utah and Minnesota, in addition to several years of working with club teams. She also owns a National Soccer Coaches Association of America Director of Coaching License and a United States Soccer Federation National B Coaching License.
Green played soccer for four seasons at the college level, starting her career at Loyola University of Chicago, where she set the school scoring record as a freshman and was named the team MVP for two straight years. Green played her final two seasons at Macalester College (Minn.), where she was a two-time all-conference and two-time all-central region selection.
Green is a 1999 graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., with a bachelor's degree in psychology. She earned a master's degree in sports psychology from the University of Utah in 2006.
Green and her husband, Josh, have a son, Jack, and a daughter, Ashleigh.
