Danny Sanchez enters his first season at Wyoming after posting a 128-11-7 (.901) record in six seasons as the head women's coach at Metro State College in Denver, Colo. He led the Roadrunners to the NCAA Division II National Championship in 2004 and 2006. In addition to serving as the head women's coach, Sanchez was also the Director of Soccer Operations and oversaw both the men's and women's soccer programs.

During his time at Metro State, Sanchez was the 2004 NCAA Division II National Coach of the Year, the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) Coach of the Year all six seasons and a four-time National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Midwest Region Coach of the Year.

In his six seasons at Metro State, the Roadrunners won the RMAC Championship and advanced to the NCAA Tournament every year. They also won five Midwest Region Championships. In addition to its 2004 and 2006 National Championships, Metro State reached the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament three times (2002, `04 and `06) and advanced to the Elite Eight five times. At one point, Metro State won a Division II record 61 consecutive home games, as well as 59 consecutive overall games.
 
Metro State produced two Division II National Players of the Year and 14 NSCAA All-Americans in Sanchez's tenure.

Sanchez also served as an Associate Head Men's Coach at Metro State from 2004-07 and helped lead the Roadrunner men to the 2007 RMAC Championship and to the NCAA Tournament in 2006 and 2007.

Prior to coaching at Metro State, Sanchez served as the head men's and women's soccer coach at Mesa Community College in Mesa, Ariz. from 1995-2002. At Mesa, he led the women's team to a 103-15-5 (.858) overall record and the men to a 96-36-7 (.716) mark. The women won four National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region I Championships and five Arizona Community College Athletic Conference (ACCAC) Championships. In 2001, he was the ACCAC and NJCAA Region I Men's and Women's Coach of the Year, as well as the NSCAA Junior College Central Region Coach of the Year. He also won the NJCAA Region I Women's Coach of the Year award in 1996 and 1999. Mesa produced 12 All-Americans in Sanchez's time with the program.

Sanchez has been very active in coaching around the Rocky Mountain region. He has served as a staff coach and licensing instructor for the Colorado State Youth Soccer Association. He was also a US Youth Soccer Region IV Staff Coach.

Sanchez holds a United States Soccer Federation (USSF) "A" License, a USSF National Youth License, an NSCAA Advanced National Diploma and a KNVB Dutch Advanced Certificate.

After beginning his playing career at Mesa Community College, Sanchez moved to the University of Connecticut where he helped lead the Huskies to the 1989 Big East Championship and an NCAA Tournament berth. He was a two-year starter at UConn and finished 10th on the New England region scoring charts in 1989. He also played for the Arizona Cotton of the USISL and the Arizona Condors of the Western Soccer League. 

Camp Staff-Kim Whisenant

Kim Whisenant enters her fifth season as a Wyoming soccer assistant coach. She returned to Wyoming in 2004 for a second tenure as assistant coach, as she was also a coach at UW during the 1999 and 2000 seasons. In her first season back with the Cowgirls, she helped guide UW to the second best finish in school history as they finished with a record of 9-7-4 and placed a record four players on the Mountain West Conference first and second teams. In her second season, the Cowgirls finished 9-7-3, the best winning percentage in school history, and placed two players on the MWC All-Conference teams.

Whisenant spent the 2001 and 2002 seasons as an assistant coach at Tulane University. While with Tulane, she helped guide the Green Wave to their first winning season in six years as they went 9-8 in 2001.

Before initially joining the Cowgirl staff in 1999, Whisenant served as a graduate assistant coach at East Tennessee State University.

Whisenant played four seasons at North Carolina State where she helped lead the Wolfpack to three NCAA tournament appearances. During her senior season, North Carolina State reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament and was at one time ranked as high as sixth nationally. Following college, she played in the U.S.W.I.S.L for the Baltimore Lady Bays, the Maryland Pride and the Fort Collins Force.

Whisenant earned her bachelor's degree in communication from North Carolina State in 1996. She holds an Advanced National Diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association and an USSF "A" license from the United States Soccer Federation.

Camp Staff-Jason Green