Maureen Whitney Title: Assistant Coach Experience: Seventh Season Email: mwhitney@csus.edu Bio:     Maureen Whitney will begin her third season as the top assistant under head coach Randy Dedini.     She is a familiar face to the women’s soccer program, with a previous stint as an assistant from 2000-03. She also served as the co-camp director of the Hornets’ summer soccer camps over those four years, a position she resumed from 2007-08. Whitney assists with the day-to-day duties of the women’s soccer program, including recruiting and on field coaching.     In her six seasons as an assistant coach, Whitney has helped coach Hornet players to 37 all-conference awards, which includes 10 first team all-Big Sky honors.     Whitney, who graduated from Sacramento State in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, was a two-sport athlete for the Hornets, competing from 1998-2000 in soccer and softball. As a defender for the women’s soccer team, she was named Defensive MVP following her senior season, and during her two-year career, played in 24 matches, recording two goals and two assists.     She is currently coaching the under-13 girls team of the San Juan Spirits Soccer Club. She was an assistant coach on the under-18 National Championship squad at San Juan in 2006. All told, Whitney has spent the past seven years developing young talent throughout the local youth competitive soccer ranks.     An accomplished athlete, Whitney has spent nine seasons playing for the California Storm of the Women’s Professional Soccer League. A five-time all-star, Whitney has captained the Storm along with Brazilian soccer icon, Sissi, and has played alongside former and current national team players such as Brandi Chastain and Leslie Osborne.     The Storm have reached the national championship match five times with Whitney on the field, winning the title twice, and in 2005, Whitney received the honor of WPSL MVP.     Whitney did not begin playing soccer until the age of 19. Already a two-sport athlete at Walla Walla Community College playing basketball and softball, Whitney was asked to join the soccer program in its first year of existence. She completed her eligibility at Walla Walla as a two-time NWACC all-star.     Whitney was also a three-sport athlete at Central Kitsap High School, graduating in 1995 after competing in volleyball, basketball and softball.

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