After playing for MSU Billings, Vicky McCarthy is returning as an
assistant coach for the 2003 season. A native to Montana, she played in
three sports in high school and went on to play soccer in college.
Playing for the Mining City Marauders’ Soccer Club of Butte and for
Butte High, she was named Most Valuable Players a couple of times, Most
Valuable Offensive Player, and has been All-State honorable Mention.
After graduating high school she played one at Carroll College in Helena
for Carl Straub. She then transferred to MSU Billings and played the
rest of her years in Billings under Carlos Arce for two years and Don
Trentham for one year. While playing for the Yellowjackets she was part
of the squad that posted the program’s best-ever record. She started
every game while at MSUB and holds the number three spot in the record
book for games played. McCarthy was a team leader last season and was
voted the team’s Most Valuable Player.
McCarthy began playing in 1999 for MSUB. Throughout the years she has
worked many spring break, summer and day camps that the school has
provided for youth soccer around the city and in Laurel. McCarthy has
also volunteered her time to coach a U-13 Girls Magic City Soccer team
and has received her "D" license from the United States Soccer
Federation.
Her most memorable soccer moment was during the fall semester of 2001
when the men’s and women’s team traveled twenty-four hours in a bus to
California. While there, both teams jogged to the beach and practiced in
the sand with all the washed up jellyfish getting in the way. It was
during late fall and many of the players were seeing the ocean for the
first time. She says she will never forget all the Montana kids jumping
in the freezing cold water. McCarthy mentions, "They did not care how
cold it was or what other jellyfish might be lurking, they were jumping
in. You have never seen anything until you see a bunch of people from
Montana getting knocked over by ocean waves." |
