Sam Greene enters her second year as the Assistant Women's Soccer Coach at the University of Chicago in the 2025-26 academic year.
Greene brings a wealth of knowledge to Hyde Park after accumulating over a decade of experience at both the collegiate and professional level. Her longest tenured stop was at UCLA for nine years in total and she spent the last three serving as the assistant head coach from the Bruins. With UCLA, Greene served as recruiting coordinator and delivered top 10 recruiting classes in each of her four years while in the role, including the nation's top classes in 2020 and 2022 and the second ranked class in 2019. UCLA won four PAC 12 championships, helped guide the team to two Sweet 16's and an Elite 8, and reached the pinnacle of the sport while she was with the Bruins during their NCAA D-I National Championship campaign.
Greene is no stranger to the Chicagoland area. A four-year letterwinner at Northwestern, she was a two-time Academic All-Big Ten soccer student-athlete and a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar during her senior year. She finished her career ranked fourth on Northwestern's career (16) and single season (eight) assists lists and fifth on the career games played rankings (78).
Greene graduated from Northwestern in 2011 with a degree in Learning and Organizational Change. In 2018, she was selected to the United Soccer Coaches 30 under 30 program, and she is certified with a U.S. Soccer Federation Senior "A" License. A native of Santa Monica, Calif., Greene and her wife, Alicia, currently split their time between Chicagoland and Orlando, Fla. areas.
