Sue Moynihan is entering her 10th season with the Boilermakers[apos] soccer team as assistant coach. Moynihan is involved with all aspects of the Purdue program, including field coaching, recruiting, scheduling, travel planning, camps and other administrative duties.
Moynihan boasts an impressive coaching background. As head coach at Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 1992 to 1996, she posted a 46-43-5 career record after taking the head post only two years after graduating from college. After inheriting a team that never had a winning record at the Division I level, she turned the Panthers around in only two years and in 1994 led them to one of their most successful seasons ever. They earned a 12-7-1 mark and set a school record for most wins in a single season. For her efforts, Moynihan earned Wisconsin coach- of-the-year honors; and two of her former players signed contracts in the WUSA Women[apos]s Professional Soccer League.
In anticipation of coming to Purdue, Moynihan moved into a volunteer assistant's role in August of 1997 and helped the Panthers reach new heights with a 13-3-4 record and a Midwestern Collegiate Conference championship. The league title gave UW-Milwaukee its first-ever bid to the NCAA Tournament. It also marked the first time any UW-Milwaukee women's team had qualified for an NCAA Division I Tournament in any sport.
No stranger to the sport of soccer, Moynihan is a native of Milwaukee, Wis., and comes from a very strong soccer family. Her parents were instrumental in starting soccer in the city of Milwaukee. Her brother, Mike, is currently the head coach at UW-Milwaukee. Sue's father owns one of the largest companies in the nation to manufacture and distribute soccer goals. Her brother, John, assists in running the sporting goods division of the company, Keeper Goals.
All four Moynihan siblings played soccer throughout their childhood and moved on to play collegiately. Moynihan's late mother, Laura Moynihan, was a tremendously successful youth soccer coach, as the U-17 girls national championship trophy is named the Laura Moynihan Cup in her memory.
Moynihan was an all-state midfielder at Milwaukee Pius XI High School and was named to the Region II Olympic Development Team, and she was a member of numerous state championship club teams. She played collegiately at Wisconsin and graduated with a B.A. in journalism in 1990. She is currently working on her master's degree in movement and sports science at Purdue.
A USSF 'B' licensed coach; Moynihan has served as a staff member for the Region II Olympic Developmental Program and was a staff coach with the Indiana ODP Program. Moynihan also spent three years as the director of coaching for Wisconsin girls ODP.
In 2004-05 Moynihan helped organize and teach two select youth girl teams in Lafayette. Her U-18 Tippco Stars finished the season ranked fourth in Indiana.