Assistant Coach Maddi Moon enters her first season at Iowa. Moon joins the Hawkeyes after spending the past five seasons as the head coach at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
In 2024, the Tritons posted a 14-4-3 record including a 9-3-2 conference record. USML won the GLVC Conference Tournament before falling to Grand Valley State in the opening round of the Division II NCAA Tournament. The conference tournament victory marked the programs first time ever winning the tournament.
Prior to being named the head coach at UMSL Moon spent three years as an assistant coach at Central Missouri from 2017-19. Moon’s first coaching stint came at Missouri Southern where she was an assistant during the 2016 season.
In Moon’s first season as an assistant at Central Missouri, the Jennies posted a 26-0 record as they won the 2017 Division II National Championship. Moon was a member of the United Soccer Coaches National Staff of the Year as well as the United Soccer Coaches Central Region Coaching Staff of the Year. In her three seasons UCM posted a 64-8-2 record where they also won the 2018 NCAA Central Region Championship as well as making the Sweet 16 in 2019.
Moon played collegiately at the University of Central Arkansas before playing one season professionally with the Melbourne Victory.
Moon graduated in 2015 from Central Arkansas with a bachelor’s in business administration in Marketing. Moon then earned her Master of Education with an emphasis in Sports Psychology from the University of Missouri in 2016.
Maddi is married to Logan Moon where they have one daughter, Marlee.
