Susie Foster

Susie McCreery Foster will begin her 18th collegiate season as a head coach and 12th at Carroll University after being named to the position in May of 2011. She was previously the Head Coach at Carthage College from 2004-2010.

The 2015 Midwest Conference Coach of the year has also accomplished some other notable and historic moments in her career. During the 2021 season, Foster reached two more major coaching milestones when she hit the 100-win mark at Carroll and passed 175 wins overall in her career. Foster had previously accomplished her 150th win back in 2018, and she attained her 100th win in 2013. In 2015, she coached the 1st All-American in Carroll women’s soccer history, and her 2016 team was an impressive 9-0-0 at home and the first Pioneer program in history to qualify for the CCIW Tournament since rejoining the conference after a 24-year hiatus. During her tenure, her teams have been consistently ranked by the United Soccer Coaches and received numerous other performance and academic recognitions, as well.

Foster also had a very successful playing career at Northwestern University. The former standout goalkeeper holds the current record for the Career Lowest Goals Against Average in Northwestern history and ranks second in Season Goals Against Average. She was twice named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week, was the 2-time winner of the Gene Mundy Award and was selected as a COSIDA Academic All-American. She also acted as the President of Northwestern’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and served as the University’s student-athlete rep on the Big Ten Committee.