University of Connecticut Athletics
Women's Soccer
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- maryse.bard-martel@uconn.edu
Maryse Bard-Martel is entering her first season as an assistant coach with the Huskies. She will be working with the goalkeepers.
Bard-Martel joins the Huskies after serving as assistant coach for three seasons at the University of Oklahoma, where she worked primarily with the goalkeepers and was a set play specialist.Â
The Boisbriand, Quebec native brings international experience, working as the goalkeeper coach and set play specialist for Canadian Soccer Association’s U-20 National Team in 2022.
She has also had coaching stops at Missouri State and IMG Academy in Florida.Â
Bard-Martel spent one season at the IMG Academy and prior to that was with Missouri State as assistant coach and goalkeeper coach, for two seasons.
She helped the Bears to a Missouri Valley Conference title and the program’s second NCAA tournament appearance in 2017. She helped MSU’s Kaitlin Maxwell to MVC Women’s Soccer Goalkeeper of the Year honors in 2018, becoming the second player in program history to win the award.
A four-year letter winner at the University of Memphis (2013-16), Bard-Martel holds numerous career goalkeeper records with the Tigers.Â
She ranks first in career goalkeeper minutes played (7,259), second in career wins (44) and second in career saves (267). Additionally, Bard-Martel set freshman program records in saves (79), shutouts (6) and minutes played (1856:59).
On the international stage, Bard-Martel was a part of the U-17 Canadian National Team in the 2012 FIFA World Cup in Azerbaijan and was in the U-20 Canadian National Team Pool.
Bard-Martel earned a bachelor's degree in health sciences from Memphis in 2017 and her master’s in kinesiology from Missouri State in 2019.Â
She holds a United States Soccer Federation “C” national coaching license, U.S. Soccer Grassroots 11v11 and 7v7 licenses and is a certified strength and conditioning specialist by the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
