Woody Sherwood
	College: Xavier, '91 Seasons at Butler: Seventh Season Position: Head Coach

Using a laidback demeanor off the field and a fierce competitiveness on it, head coach Woody Sherwood continues to keep the Bulldogs among the Horizon League elite. The 2005 campaign will be the seventh for Sherwood at Butler, where his Bulldogs have posted a 55-54-8 record, including an impressive 23-11-1 mark in Horizon League play.

Sherwood's Bulldogs are primed for success in 2005, returning 18 letterwinners, including three first-team All-Horizon League performers. In addition, Butler's incoming freshman class is the most acclaimed during Sherwood's tenure. The 2004 squad concluded the season with a 4-3 record in league play, cementing at least a third-place finish in the league standings in every season since 1994.

In 2003, his squad finished the regular season with a 4-2 league mark, earning the team the No. 2 seed in the league tournament. Butler opponents scored just 1.13 goals per game during the campaign, as the Bulldogs posted six shutouts.

The Bulldogs have been on the brink of capturing their first NCAA Tournament bid the last few seasons, finishing as the tournament's runners-up in both 2001 and 2002. The Bulldogs' mark of 15-6 in 2002 set a new school record for single-season wins and earned Sherwood Horizon League "Coach of the Year" honors.

In his first year at the helm of the team, Sherwood survived a rugged non-conference slate and then led the Bulldogs to a tie for the conference regular season title. In 2000, Sherwood coached a young Butler team to a third-place tie in the conference. In 2001, he took his talented squad a step further - as the Bulldogs garnered a 13-7 record, setting a new school mark for wins in a single season. The Bulldogs also captured a second place finish in the Horizon League Tournament, narrowly missing the program's first NCAA Tournament berth, falling to UW-Milwaukee 1-0 in 3OT in the championship finals.

Sherwood came to Butler from Towson University, where he first demonstrated his ability to build a program. He inherited a Towson program that had averaged just five wins per season in the time leading up to his arrival. Sherwood and his Tigers tossed aside that image in a hurry, as he led his team to a 14-6-1 record in 1997, his first year at the Tigers' helm. The 14 wins still stand as a school record, and Towson shut out 13 opponents and allowed only 0.99 goals per game. The Tigers reached the championship match of the America East Tournament before losing to No. 10 Hartford. Sherwood led Towson to a No. 10 season-ending ranking in the Middle Atlantic Region, the school's first ever regional ranking in women's soccer. In two seasons, Sherwood guided Towson to a 22-17-2 record and a pair of regional rankings.

Sherwood began his coaching career at Xavier University. An assistant coach from 1994 to 1997, Sherwood helped to lead the Musketeers to three straight winning seasons. The highlight of his tenure was Xavier's 11-5-2 season in 1995, one in which the Musketeers posted a runner-up finish in the Atlantic 10 Conference.

Sherwood enjoyed a solid playing career with Xavier as well. He was a four-year letterwinner, who played three seasons in the midfield and one as a defender.

Sherwood holds an "A" license from the United States Soccer Federation. He spent the summer of 2005 as the head coach of the '87 Region II Team. In 2002, he served as the assistant coach for the Under-19 Region II Team and in summer of 2003 he was the assistant coach for the Under-17 Region II Team. Sherwood has also been a Region I (East) coach for the United States Youth Soccer Association. In addition, Sherwood spent two years with the Carmel United Soccer Club where he took two different teams to the state cup finals.

Sherwood was a standout performer at Woodward High School in Rockville, Md., where he played both tennis and soccer. He graduated from Xavier in 1991 with a bachelor's of science degree in psychology. He earned his master of education degree in sports administration from Xavier in 1995.

Woody Sherwood's Year-by-Year Records

1997	Towson	14-6-1	(.690)
1998	Towson	8-11-1	(.425)
1999	Butler	5-11-2	(.333)
2000	Butler	7-11-2	(.400)
2001	Butler	13-7-0	(.650)
2002	Butler	15-6-0	(.714)
2003	Butler	8-9-2	(.473)
2004	Butler	7-10-2	(.421)

Overall (Eight seasons)	77-71-10	(.519)
Butler (Six seasons)	55-54-8	(.504)
Horizon League	23-11-1	(.671)

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