Maddi Moon

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 2025, Iowa finished with a 12-5-4 overall record and posted a 6-2-3 Big Ten Conference mark, tying for third in the league’s regular-season standings. The Hawkeyes earned the second preseason ranking in program history, opening the season at No. 13 before rising as high as No. 5, the highest ranking in program history.

Iowa advanced to its 16th Big Ten Tournament appearance before falling to Wisconsin in the quarterfinals. Junior Sofia Bush earned Big Ten All-Tournament Team honors. Following the conference tournament, the Hawkeyes were selected as a five seed in the NCAA Tournament, earning their third consecutive NCAA berth, a program record. It also marked the third straight season Iowa hosted an NCAA Tournament match.vSenior Kenzie Roling’s goal lifted the Hawkeyes past South Dakota State, advancing Iowa to the NCAA Tournament Second Round for the third straight year. Iowa became one of just 11 programs nationally to reach the NCAA Second Round in three consecutive seasons.

The Hawkeyes faced LSU in Nashville in the NCAA Tournament Second Round, falling to the Tigers after the match was delayed one day due to weather.

Four Hawkeyes earned All-Big Ten postseason recognition, with juniors Sofia Bush and Millie Greer earning second-team honors. Freshmen Liana Tarasco and Elle Wildman were named to the Big Ten All-Freshman Team, while senior Taylor Kane was Iowa’s Sportsmanship Award honoree. Bush and Greer also earned United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-Region honors.

Iowa excelled academically, with five student-athletes earning CSC Academic All-District honors. Seventeen Hawkeyes were named Academic All-Big Ten, while 14 earned Dean’s List recognition, including two who were also named to the President’s List.

Hawkeye fans continued to show strong support, as Iowa averaged 2,076 fans per home match, ranking fifth nationally and first in the Big Ten. Iowa’s home match against TCU drew 2,382 fans, setting a program record for regular-season attendance.

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.