Women's Assistant Coach | Katie Roberts

Katie Roberts was announced as the Assistant Women's Soccer Coach on August 4, 2021.

Roberts joins the AUM coaching staff from Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, Ga., where she worked as an assistant coach since the fall of 2018. While in Americus Roberts assisted with all aspects of the program, including recruiting, planning and running training sessions, game preparation, film breakdown, travel planning, community service engagement, academics monitoring, and weight room training. Roberts worked with Hurricane goalkeepers in 2018, and additionally handled head coaching responsibilities in the 2019-20 and 2021 off-seasons while the position was vacated.

Prior to her time in Americus Roberts served as an assistant coach at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, Ohio from 2017-2018, where she worked primarily with midfielders and forwards. Under Roberts' guidance, the Lions led the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference with 58 goals scored in 2017 while forward Kaylan Gruber earned United Soccer Coaches Third Team All-American honors.

Prior to St. Joseph Roberts was a volunteer coach at High Point University in High Point, N.C., where she was responsible for working with the HPU forwards. She also assisted with all aspects of the program including planning training sessions, film breakdown, assisting with gameday operations and the Fit for 90 athlete wellness monitoring system.

Roberts was a four-year letter winner at the University at Buffalo and was named the MAC Offensive Player of the Year as a senior in 2014. Over four years with the Bulls, Roberts played in 79 games with 60 starts and notched 53 points on 23 goals and seven assists. She was named to the MAC All-Freshman Team after leading the team in goals and assists in 2011 and led the team to a MAC Championship as a senior with 12 goals and three assists in 22 games.

Roberts holds a USSF E Coaching License. A native of Homerville, Ohio, she earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University at Buffalo in May of 2015, while minoring in Education.