Coach Goodberry
Lisa Goodberry began her Rugby career in 1998 at the University at Buffalo (UB). While at UB, she played as a loose-head prop, hooker and flanker. Goodberry was the Match Secretary of UB from 1999 to 2000 and the President and Captain from 2000 to 2002. She was selected for the NYS Collegiate All-star Team in 2001 and 2002. In 2003, she played for the Niagara Wasps in Port Colborne, Canada and helped the Wasps go undefeated to win the Niagara Rugby Union Championship. In 2003, 2004, and 2005 Goodberry represented the Western Region in the Empire State Games Sevens Rugby Tournament, where the Western Women took home silver in 2003 and gold in 2004 and 2005. In 2004, she helped found the Buffalo Women’s Rugby Team (“the Old Girls”), where she currently plays as flanker, scrum half or wing. During Buffalo’s first year in the Midwest Union, they advanced to the Playoffs and took Third Place. For a brief period in 2006, Goodberry lived in New York City where she played top notch Rugby with several National Eagle players to participate in an undefeated season (both A and B sides) with the New York Rugby Club. Coach Goodberry received a Masters Degree in Social Work from UB in 2005 and a Juris Doctor Degree from UB in 2006. She recently passed the NYS BAR examination and works for a real estate developer building affordable housing. She has coaching experience at the High School level, as she was an Assistant Coach for the Frontier Varsity Cheerleading Team in Hamburg NY, where she was born.