Kat Stratton - Assistant Soccer Coach - Staff Directory

Staff Directory

Kat Stratton

Title:
Assistant Soccer Coach
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Phone:
662-325-2722

Kat Stratton joined the Bulldog soccer program on Feb. 18, 2020, as a volunteer assistant coach working with State’s goalkeepers. She was elevated to a full-time assistant coach prior to the 2023 season.

She was instrumental in the development of 2024 SEC Goalkeeper of the Year and United Soccer Coaches Second Team All-American Maddy Anderson. Anderson closed her MSU career as the Bulldogs’ all-time leader in shutouts (39), wins (51) and goals against average (0.84).

The Bulldogs have broken the school record for shutouts in each of the last three seasons. In 2022, Stratton's keepers posted a then-school-record 10 shutouts, while Anderson set records for fewest goals allowed in a season (9) and goals against average (0.64). The following year, State blanked the opponent 11 times, and Anderson’s goals against average stood a 0.69. Finally, in 2024, MSU shut out the opponent in 16 of its 22 matches. Anderson broke the single-season record with a 0.47 goals against average, allowing just 10 goals in 1,915 minutes.

Prior to that impressive run of goalkeeper performance, Bulldog keepers recorded four shutouts in each of her first three seasons. Stratton’s first year in 2020 was also Anderson’s first year in the Maroon and White. The Bulldogs relied on the young freshman and redshirt freshman Hannah Pimentel throughout the season, yet still managed to post a team goals against average of 1.17 that ranked fourth in school history at the time. Anderson earned SEC All-Freshman Team honors following the fall portion of the season.

The 2020 season was split across the fall and spring semesters in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. In the four-game spring, Stratton's netminders held steady, allowing only one goal.

Stratton came to Starkville from Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi, where she was a volunteer assistant. While coaching with the Choctaws, she also served as the goalkeeper director and head coach of the U11 and U12 squads at the Brilla JUNIORS club.

In addition to her goalkeeper responsibilities, Stratton helped with scouting and game day operations at Mississippi College. The Choctaws won the 2019 Gulf South Conference championship, and goalkeeper Gabby Kayser was a D2CCA First Team All-South Region and First Team All-Gulf South selection under Stratton’s tutelage.

Stratton was a standout goalkeeper at the University of Alabama for five years and was named team captain as a senior. She earned Third Team All-South Region honors as a junior and finished third in the SEC in saves (91) fourth in save percentage (.805), fifth in saves per game (4.79) and seventh in both goals against average (1.14) and shutouts (5) that year.

The Tupelo, Mississippi, native finished her career second in the program record books in goals against average (1.31) and total shutouts (12), third in career wins (22), fourth in save percentage (.753) and sixth in saves (201). On Aug. 27, 2017, she posted a shutout victory over then-No. 4 Florida State for the Tide’s first win against a top-10 opponent in program history.

While attending Alabama, she worked the Roll Tide Soccer Academy for three summers before offering individual skill lessons in the Birmingham area for her final semester of classes once her eligibility was exhausted.

As a club player, Stratton was selection to the Region III Olympic Development Program team for five consecutive years, traveling to Costa Rica, Germany and France for international competition. In 2009 and 2010, she earned spots on the U.S. U14 and U15 National Teams.

Stratton grew up as a Mississippi State fan as her mother and brothers are all alumni. Most notably, her brother Chris played baseball for the Diamond Dawgs for three years before he was selected in the first round of the 2012 MLB Draft by the San Francisco Giants. He won the 2023 World Series with the Texas Rangers.