Women's Swimming and Diving
- Title:
- Women's Swimming and Diving Assistant Coach
- Email:
- swoodbur@tulane.edu
- Phone:
- 247-1242
Sarah Woodbury joined the Green Wave staff for the start of the 2013-14 season. Woodbury has made an impact on the team’s sprinters with stroke technique and unique training methods. In addition to her on-deck duties, she is also responsible for directing team travel, managing equipment and apparel budgets, coordinating recruiting, alumni affairs and directing dryland training.
Woodbury has been instrumental in the team’s recruiting efforts and the incoming talent, helping Tulane show steady improvement year in and year out. Woodbury helped lead the Green Wave to a second-place finish at American Conference Championships in 2016, and has guided the young team to a number of school record setting performances.
Woodbury's position at Tulane marks her fourth stint as a collegiate coach as she previously served as an assistant and interim head coach at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, in 2010-11, as an assistant coach at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, from 2011-12, and as an assistant at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, during the 2012-13 campaign.
Her collegiate coaching resume began at Southwestern University in July 2010 when she helped the Pirates establish nine school records, two national qualifiers, and the first All-American in school history. In addition to her college stops, Woodbury also served as head coach for the Huntington (West Virginia) Y Charleston Aquatic Team in 2012-13, head coach at Anderson Mill Swim Club from 2008-11 and youth coach for the North Shore Swim Club in Auckland, New Zealand from May through December 2008.
During her time at Stevens Institute where she assisted with both the men's and women's programs, Woodbury directed a middle distance group of 18 student-athletes and each posted personal-best times that season. Along the way, the women's team finished fifth at the 2012 Division III NCAA Championship while the men posted an 11th-place showing. A total of nine student-athletes claimed All-America honors, eight earned honorable-mention All-America distinction and Brittany Geyer won the national title in the 200 breast with a mark of 2:15.55.
With Marshall, Woodbury was instrumental in helping set or tie four school records as the team won five dual-meet competitions.
Following a stellar prep career at Westwood High and with the Circle C Swim Club where she earned NISCA All-America honors, Woodbury earned an athletic scholarship to BYU and was a four-year letterwinner from 2003-07. As a college student-athlete, she helped the Cougars claim four consecutive Mountain West Conference titles, claimed the Scholar Athlete Award each year and earned All-MWC recognition three times. Following her time in Provo, Utah, Woodbury trained with the New Zealand National Team in 2008.
A native of Austin, Texas, she completed her degree in advertising and marketing from BYU in 2007 and earned a master's in physical education from Texas State in 2010. Woodbury is currently pursuing a master’s degree in business administration from Tulane’s prestigious A.B. Freeman School of Business and is on pace to graduate in Spring 2017.
