Keri Sarver - Women's Soccer Coach - University of Akron Athletics

Keri Sarver

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
ksarver@uakron.edu
Phone:
(330) 972-2375

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Keri Sarver begins her third season as an assistant women’s soccer coach at Akron in 2014.

An accomplished club coach, Sarver has been the director of coaching for the Internationals Soccer Club since 2008, where she trained coaches and managers, organized team training, camps and tryouts, and oversaw the club’s scheduling and travel needs.
As a staff coach with the Internationals since 2005, Sarver was involved with all aspects of team training with girls’ teams ages 8-18. During that time, Sarver’s clubs captured over 30 Ohio Youth Soccer Association North State (OYSAN) Championships, while three teams advanced to the United States Youth Soccer Association (USYSA) National Finals and five won United Soccer Leagues Super-Y League National Championships. Sarver helped develop six U.S. Youth National Team pool players and placed over 100 players at various colleges throughout the country.

Sarver also assisted with the Internationals W-League team from 2007-09 after working with the club as a trainer from 1995-2004. In 2009, Sarver was honored as the USYSA Girls Competitive National Coach of the Year, as well as the OYSAN and Region II Girls Competitive Coach of the Year.
In addition to her work with the Internationals, Sarver has coached with the United States Soccer Federation Youth National Teams Program as an assistant coach since 2011 and also was a national scout and training center coach since 2010. She also was a staff coach for the Olympic Development Program’s Midwest Region in 1996-97.
An alumnus of Jackson High School in Massillon, Sarver was a three-time All-Ohio and All-Region pick and was named the Akron Beacon Journal’s Athlete of the Year as a soccer player in 1993 when she led the team to the state semifinals and was named a Parade All-American. She finished her career as the school’s all-time and single-season record holder in goals, assists and points.

She continued her soccer career at the University of Maryland, where she was a two-time All-Atlantic Coast Conference pick and an All-American in 1998. Sarver helped the Terrapins to four NCAA Tournaments from 1995-1998 and graduated holding the school record in every major offensive category. She was named the University’s Female Student-Athlete of the Year in 1998-99 and won the ACC’s James Weaver-Corrigan Award. In 2002, Sarver was named to the ACC’s 50th Anniversary Team.
Following graduation from college, she played professional soccer with the Washington Freedom, New York Power and Carolina Courage of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA). Sarver also played semi-professionally for several teams in the United Soccer Leagues W-League and was a member of the U.S. Women’s National Team pool.
Sarver graduated from Maryland in 1999 with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science. Professionally, Sarver has worked as a senior database technology software engineer for The MITRE Corporation since 1999.
She holds a United States Soccer Federation A License and a National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Director of Coaching Diploma.
Sarver was a 2011 inductee in the Ohio Soccer Hall of Fame and she was inducted into Jackson High School’s Hall of Fame in 2004.