Express Hires Rutherford To Take Over Women's Soccer

Express Hires Rutherford To Take Over Women's Soccer

Megan Rutherford enters her first year coaching at Owens Community College. 

 

Most recently, Coach Rutherford was the Girls Varsity Soccer Coach at Lake High School for 1 season in 2023. During her time at Lake, the team won the "Juergen Mudrow Cup" NWOSOA Team Excellence and Sportsmanship Award for all HS girls divisions in 2024 and finished their season in the Sectional Final with an overall record of 5-7-5 (W-L-T). She is currently a coach at GTFC Impact and is a head coach of a GU19 GLA-NPL team for the 2024 season and has assisted ECNL-RL/Elite 64 teams aging from U13-U19 beginning in 2022. 

 

Coach Rutherford was the Girls Varsity Soccer Coach at Eastwood High School for 11 seasons from 2011-2022. The teams overall record under Coach Rutherford was 152-45-16 (W-L-T). The team reached the DII District Championship in 2014 and reached the DIII District Championship in 2016. The team won Sectional Championships in 2013, 2014 (DII), 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 (DIII). In 2018 and 2019 the team was Northern Buckeye Conference Champions and Regional Semifinalists. In 2020 and 2021, the team was NBC Champions and Regional Runner-Ups. Other notable team awards under Coach Rutherford include the Team Ethics Award of Merit - Gold Certificate in 2020, the NWO District Team Sportsmanship Award by the NWOSSCA for DIII girls in 2020, and the "Juergen Mudrow Cup" NWOSOA Team Excellence and Sportsmanship Award for all HS girls divisions in 2021. Coach Rutherford has been awarded NWO District DIII Coach of the Year in 2018 and 2019, was awarded the Ohio DIII Coach of the Year in 2019, and the United Soccer Coaches Ohio High School Coach of the Year Small School Division in 2019. 

 

Prior to that, Megan was a member of the women's soccer team at The University of Findlay for four years. She resides in Haskins with her husband Craig and their two sons Bryce and Caden.