Sarah Greer enters her fifth season as head women's lacrosse coach at her alma mater, Kutztown University in 2012.
Kutztown posted a 5-12 record in 2011, which was a two-win improvement from 2010. Greer had two players receive All-PSAC honors (Randy Vite and Rachel Mehaffey).
The Golden Bears finished with a 3-13 overall record and 0-9 in the PSAC East. In addition to the three wins, the Golden Bears showed signs of improvement with a number of competitive games against some of the top teams in the conference. For the second straight year, Greer had a player receive all-PSAC honors.
In the 2009 season, the Golden Bears finished with a 2-14 overall record and 0-10 in the their first season in the PSAC East. Greer coached two PSAC East second team athletes. The Golden Bears were an independent in the 2008 season, after an 18-year hiatus, finished with an overall record of 2-8.
Greer returned to Kutztown after a four-year stint at Gwynedd-Mercy College, where she served as the head field hockey coach and assistant lacrosse coach. In her three seasons with the Lady Griffins lacrosse program, Greer served under head coach Sarah Quintois, while fulfilling temporary head coaching duties in parts of two seasons. In her three years as assistant coach, the squad was 23-23 and was a two-time Pennsylvania Athletic Conference semifinalist. As field hockey coach, Greer stressed excellence on the field and in the classroom, as her team was honored with the prestigious National Field Hockey Coaches Association Academic award in all four of her years as head coach.
Greer began coaching in the collegiate ranks as a part-time assistant with the KU field hockey team in 2001, serving under her mother, head field hockey coach Betty Wesner.
Her first full-time coaching position came the following year in 2002 at Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., where she served as an assistant coach in both field hockey and lacrosse.
In her time as a player at Kutztown, Greer, then Sarah Wesner, was the definition of a student-athlete. She was the captain of the field hockey team and also took home the team’s coach's award in 2000. She was a N4A Student-Athlete Achievement Award and a Honda Inspiration Award nominee that season, and served as secretary on Kutztown’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. In her freshman season, she was a member of the 1997 squad that fell in the title game to PSAC foe and national powerhouse Bloomsburg. In 1999 she finished as the teams second leading scorer and led the team in assists.
Greer is a 1996 graduate of Exeter High School, and graduated from Kutztown with a degree in social work and a minor in anthropology in 2002. While coaching at Gwynedd-Mercy, Greer obtained a master’s degree in school counseling in 2006.
Greer and her husband, Samuel, a Philadelphia firefighter and marine reservist, reside in Philadelphia with their daughters, Riley Catherine, 2, and Grace Elizabeth, who was born April 1, 2009.
