Coaching Staff

Carl Goody | Associate Head Coach

Carl Goody enters his third season on the women’s soccer coaching staff in 2023, and his second as the Associate Head Coach. 

In his second year with the Bulldogs, Goody helped lead the team to an overall record of 11-4-7 and a ninth-consecutive SoCon championship. The Bulldogs also won the SoCon Tournament and earned an NCAA bid for the third time in four seasons, while also cracking the Top 25 for the first time in program history. 

Working primarily with the goalkeepers, Goody was instrumental in the breakthrough of redshirt-freshman Emma Donley, who replaced an injured Morgan McAslan and helped the Bulldogs advance over UNCG on penalty kicks in the SoCon Tournament championship, earning Tournament MVP honors in the process.
    
In his first season at Samford in 2021, serving as an assistant coach, he helped lead the program to a 16-3-3 record, including a perfect 9-0 mark in SoCon play. The Bulldogs won the SoCon Tournament and earned the program’s first outright win in the NCAA Tournament with a 2-0 victory at Auburn. 
    
Prior to Samford, Goody was a member of the UTSA staff for the 2020 season where he served as the goalkeepers coach.  
     
Before his time with the Roadrunners, Carl Goody spent six years with LSU, five as an assistant and one as a volunteer. With the Tigers, his primary responsibility was working with the defensive unit. In 2018, the LSU staff was named the United Soccer Coaches Southeast Region Coaching Staff of the Year after claiming the SEC Tournament Championship and reaching the NCAA Round of 32.
     
In his first year as an assistant coach, the Tigers made it to the SEC Tournament Semifinals as well as the NCAA Round of 64.
     
Over the course of his time in Louisiana, Goody’s players attained a multitude of awards, including, All-SEC First and Second Team, All-SEC Freshman Team, Southeast All-Region First Team, Third Team All-American, SEC Tournament MVP, Second Team Academic All-American and SEC All-Tournament Team.
     
Prior to LSU, Goody worked as a graduate assistant with the men’s and women’s soccer programs at William Carey University in Hattiesburg, Mississippi from 2012-13. In 2013, the women’s team reached the Sweet Sixteen of the NAIA National Tournament after an undefeated Southern States Athletic Conference (SSAC) season.
     
Goody earned a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education, while also obtaining a master’s degree in counseling psychology from William Carey.

The Samford University soccer program has hired Anne Metz as a new assistant coach, head coach Todd Yelton announced Tuesday.
 
"I'm very excited to welcome Anne to my staff," Yelton said. "After going through the process, it became clear that she had the qualities and character that we value at Samford. I know she will do a fantastic job and the girls will love working with her."  
 
Metz comes to Samford after serving as the head coach at Colorado Christian University for the last two seasons. During her time in charge of the program, Metz coached six players that earned honorable mention All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference honors.
 
Prior to being named head coach at Colorado Christian, she served three seasons as an assistant coach at CCU.
 
"I feel excited and privileged to join the coaching staff here at Samford University," Metz said. "This exceptional program reflects the values that are important to me as I continue in my coaching career. I look forward to learning from Todd (Yelton) and Carl (Goody) and contributing to the excellence and success of this program."
 
Metz played collegiately at John Brown University. She was highly decorated student-athlete during her time at John Brown, being named All-Conference three times, a team captain for two years and All-American her senior year with the Golden Eagles.
 
During her time as a student-athlete, Metz tallied 20 goals, 24 assists and 52 of her 106 shots on goal for a nearly fifty percent on goal percentage. Her efforts helped her team to two conference championships and two national tournament appearances. Metz graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor's degree in Kinesiology and Intercultural Studies with Academic All-Conference honors. 

Following graduation, Anne played in the Women's Premier Soccer League, and after seeing success there was offered a professional contract to play in the Scottish Premier League.
 
The Samford soccer program has been the model of consistency since Yelton took over in 2002. He has led the program to 14 regular-season conference titles, seven NCAA Tournament appearances and six conference tournament championships.