Soccer
Benz, Katie
Katie Benz
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- katie.benz@mso.umt.edu
- Phone:
- 243-4378
The 2020 season is Katie Benz’s fourth year as an assistant coach with the Montana soccer program.
She has been on staff for a pair of Big Sky Conference championships, a tournament title in 2018, which sent the program to its first NCAA tournament since 2011, and a regular-season championship in 2019.
In her first season with Montana, in 2017, the Grizzlies finished second in the Big Sky and advanced to the conference tournament semifinals.
Montana has gone 24-22-16 with Benz as an assistant coach. She oversaw the program for four months in early 2018 while the Grizzlies were between head coaches.
Benz spent the 2016 season working as director of operations at Denver, her first year working at the collegiate level, and coaching in the Colorado Rush club program.
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, but raised in Sonoma, Calif., Benz played collegiately at California.
She scored three goals in her first three seasons playing behind Alex Morgan. Each of those teams advanced to the NCAA tournament.
As a senior in 2011, Benz, a one-time Pac-12 Player of the Week, scored 10 goals in Cal’s first eight matches, including a hat trick against Denver, before suffering a career-ending broken leg midway through a season that concluded with another trip to the NCAAs.
Benz graduated from Cal in 2012 with a degree in legal studies. She spent one year after college writing, recording and touring with the band The Youngest. She is married to Patrick Owen.
She has been on staff for a pair of Big Sky Conference championships, a tournament title in 2018, which sent the program to its first NCAA tournament since 2011, and a regular-season championship in 2019.
In her first season with Montana, in 2017, the Grizzlies finished second in the Big Sky and advanced to the conference tournament semifinals.
Montana has gone 24-22-16 with Benz as an assistant coach. She oversaw the program for four months in early 2018 while the Grizzlies were between head coaches.
Benz spent the 2016 season working as director of operations at Denver, her first year working at the collegiate level, and coaching in the Colorado Rush club program.
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, but raised in Sonoma, Calif., Benz played collegiately at California.
She scored three goals in her first three seasons playing behind Alex Morgan. Each of those teams advanced to the NCAA tournament.
As a senior in 2011, Benz, a one-time Pac-12 Player of the Week, scored 10 goals in Cal’s first eight matches, including a hat trick against Denver, before suffering a career-ending broken leg midway through a season that concluded with another trip to the NCAAs.
Benz graduated from Cal in 2012 with a degree in legal studies. She spent one year after college writing, recording and touring with the band The Youngest. She is married to Patrick Owen.
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