At Washington

• Completed her 20th season on the Washington women’s soccer coaching staff in 2015, helping the Huskies to their second straight NCAA tournament appearance and 14th in program history.
• Hired as an assistant coach at UW on March 26, 1996
• Promoted to associate head coach in August of 2005
• Mentored Hope Solo, current U.S. WNT keeper, from 1999-2002
• Won a Pac-10 title in 2000
• Has mentored current goalkeeper, Megan Kufeld, who became the career shutouts leader at Washington in 2015.

Previous/Other Coaching Experience

• Coach of the US Deaf Womens National Soccer Team, which will be competing in the 2016 World Cup and 2017 Womens Deaf Olympics.
• Also served as a member of the U23 US Soccer Women’s National Team Coaching staff
• Has spent the last nine years working with the Youth National Teams
• Worked with both the U-20 and U-23 U.S. National teams, including the U-20 side that played in the 2014 U-20 Women’s World Cup in Canada
• Has been a member of U.S. Soccer’s Coaching Education staff since 1988
• Served as the head coach at the University of New Mexico from 1992-94
• Assistant under Husky head coach Lesle Gallimore at San Diego State 1990-91
• First full-time assistant coach in the country at Santa Clara 1989-90

Playing Career

• Was a member of the U.S. National Team from 1987 to 1991, playing on the team that won the first women’s World Cup in 1991
• In 23 career national team starts she posted a 12-8-3 record with a 0.99 goals against average
• Played at the University of Central Florida where she was named the adidas Goalkeeper of the Year in 1987
• Went to three NCAA tourney three times at Central Florida during her collegiate career
• Inducted into the Central Florida Hall of Fame in 1999, the school’s second women’s soccer honoree
• Earned five gold medals and one silver as a participant at the Olympic Sports Festival

Personal

• Married to Jack Griffin, the couple has two sons, Nicholas (13) and Benjamin (11)
• Graduate of Decatur (Wash.) High School and member of the F.C. Royals club program (Washinton Premiere)
• Native of Federal Way, Wash., currently lives in Seattle
• Loves the northwest and enjoys hiking, boating and the outdoors