Carl Goody enters his sixth season on the women’s soccer coaching staff in 2026, and his fifth as the associate head coach.
During the 2025 season, Goody helped lead Samford to a record of 13-3-5 overall and 7-0-2 in SoCon play. the Bulldogs won the SoCon regular season and SoCon Tournament titles and earned the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
In 2024, Goody helped lead the Bulldogs to the Southern Conference Tournament title and an NCAA Tournament appearance.
During the 2023 season, the Bulldogs went 12-4-5 overall and 6-1-2 in Southern Conference play, reaching the finals of the SoCon Tournament.
In his second year with the Bulldogs, Goody helped lead the team to an overall record of 11-4-7 and a ninth-consecutive SoCon championship. The Bulldogs also won the SoCon Tournament and earned an NCAA bid for the third time in four seasons, while also cracking the Top 25 for the first time in program history.
Working primarily with the goalkeepers, Goody was instrumental in the breakthrough of redshirt-freshman Emma Donley, who replaced an injured Morgan McAslan and helped the Bulldogs advance over UNCG on penalty kicks in the SoCon Tournament championship, earning Tournament MVP honors in the process.
In his first season at Samford in 2021, serving as an assistant coach, he helped lead the program to a 16-3-3 record, including a perfect 9-0 mark in SoCon play. The Bulldogs won the SoCon Tournament and earned the program’s first outright win in the NCAA Tournament with a 2-0 victory at Auburn.
Prior to Samford, Goody was a member of the UTSA staff for the 2020 season where he served as the goalkeepers coach.
Before his time with the Roadrunners, Carl Goody spent six years with LSU, five as an assistant and one as a volunteer. With the Tigers, his primary responsibility was working with the defensive unit. In 2018, the LSU staff was named the United Soccer Coaches Southeast Region Coaching Staff of the Year after claiming the SEC Tournament Championship and reaching the NCAA Round of 32.
In his first year as an assistant coach, the Tigers made it to the SEC Tournament Semifinals as well as the NCAA Round of 64.
Over the course of his time in Louisiana, Goody’s players attained a multitude of awards, including, All-SEC First and Second Team, All-SEC Freshman Team, Southeast All-Region First Team, Third Team All-American, SEC Tournament MVP, Second Team Academic All-American and SEC All-Tournament Team.
Prior to LSU, Goody worked as a graduate assistant with the men’s and women’s soccer programs at William Carey University in Hattiesburg, Mississippi from 2012-13.
Goody earned a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education, while also obtaining a master’s degree in counseling psychology from William Carey.
