Born: November 24th, 1970 in Ventura, California
Buena High School 1988
UC Santa Barbara 1992
CSUN – Teaching credential in Social Science -1996
United States Soccer Federation – Class “C” Coaching License – 1998
Trish Butterbaugh was captain of the Buena Bulldogs twice and MVP of the Channel League twice. In 1988, her team won the CIF Championship and she was the CIF Player of the Year. She was also Buena’s Athlete of the Year.
At UCSB, Trish was a Division 1 All Far West Player of the Year and third on the Gaucho’ s all-time scoring list. She has been an Olympic development Player, a Western Regional Player, a member of the Southern California State team and played semi-professional soccer for various other teams. One other very notable achievement was that in 1986, she was the MVP of Buena’ s Boys JV team.
It is difficult to encompass the myriad success of Trish’s coaching career. She started as an assistant at UCSB, then at Ventura College. She was head Coach at Camarillo High School before moving home to Buena in 1997.
Congruently she coached youth teams for Southern California United, the California Eagles, the Millennium and the Southern California Blues. She has taken teams to the semi-finals of the State Cup and won the Nike Invitational Championship. She has been active in Soccer Direct camps and as an Amateur Athletic Foundation instructor. However the apex of her success has been at Buena High School.
Her teams have won Channel League Championships an amazing sixteen times in a row. She has taken them to the CIF Finals five times, winning four championships. She has been L.A. Times Coach of the Year, Western regional Coach of the Year and CIF Coach of the Year four times.
Administratively , she has been a member of the CIF Soccer Advisory Committee for nine years. Trish and her husband Todd live in Ventura raising their children Tanner and Taylin.