Buete Highlights
As a Coach
- 2018 National Championship
- Three Big Ten Tournament Championships (2014, 2015, 2016)
- Two Big Ten Regular Season Championships (2014, 2016)
- Six NCAA Tournament Appearances
- 77 wins
- Four All-Americans
- 13 MLS SuperDraft Selections
- Four MLS Homegrown Signees
- Two US Men's National Team Players
As a Player
- Two College Cups (2002, 2003)
- 75 wins
- 2003 ACC Regular Season Championship
- 2002 ACC Tournament Championship
- 2x All-American
- 2x All-ACC
- 2003 ACC All-Tournament Team
- Four NCAA Tournament Appearances
- 2004 MLS SuperDraft First Round Pick
Former Terrapin All-American Scott Buete served as an assistant for seven years after being hired in May of 2014. Buete was an assistant coach until Feb. 2021, when he was named the new head coach at Salisbury University.
Buete has done nothing but win in his association with Maryland soccer, capturing a national title, a combined 152 wins, four conference tournament titles, three conference regular season titles and 10 NCAA Tournament appearances in his 11 seasons as a player and coach with the program.
After coming close as a player in multiple College Cup appearances, Buete helped Maryland capture the ultimate prize in 2018 as the Terps engineered an end of season turnaround for the ages en route to the National Championship. Buete helped cultivate a Maryland back line that did not give up a goal in the entirety of the NCAA Tournament and featured All-American Donovan Pines. The Terps had four players (Dayne St. Clair, Chase Gasper, Andrew Samuels, Amar Sejdic) taken in the MLS SuperDraft, while Pines signed a homegrown deal with D.C. United.
The following season, Buete helped a young Terps team advanced to the program's 19th straight NCAA Tournament. Maryland had six players named All-Big Ten selections, including first-team picks Johannes Bergmann and Eli Crognale, who went on to sign professional contracts in USL.
The 2017 Terrapins opened the season unbeaten for 13 consecutive games. Buete helped mentor Big Ten Midfielder of the Year Eryk Williamson along with fellow first-team All-Big Ten selection midfielder Jake Rozhansky. Defender Donovan Pines was also an All-Big Ten pick as Maryland advanced to their 17th straight NCAA Tournament.
Maryland's 2016 season as historic as the Terps ripped through the regular season with and unbeaten 18-0-2 record. Between 2015 and 2017, Maryland went unbeaten in 33 straight regular season games. The Terps captured both the Big Ten Tournament and Regular Season titles. Forward Alex Crognale and Gordon Wild were named first-team NSCAA All-Americans and put eight players on All-Big Ten teams, including midfielders Eryk Williamson and Amar Sejdic. Crognale signed a homegrown contract with Columbus Crew and Chris Odoi-Atsem was selected in the MLS SuperDraft by DC United.
Buete was instrumental in leading the Terps to a second consecutive Big Ten Tournament championship in 2016, defeating top-seeded Ohio State in Columbus. Maryland bounced back from an early exit in the NCAA Tournament in 2015 with a trip to the quarterfinals where the squad ultimately fell to national runner-up Clemson in South Carolina. A league-high six Terrapins earned All-B1G honors, including two-time first-team pick Mael Corboz. Tsubasa Endoh and Ivan Magalhaes went on to be selected in the first and second round, respectively, of the 2016 MLS SuperDraft.
In his first season back in College Park, Buete helped guide the Terps to the Big Ten regular season and tournament championship whlie mentoring five All-B1G selections including first team selections Mael Corboz, Chris Odoi-Atsem, Alex Shinsky, and Dan Metzger. Metzger and Shinsky were later selected in the MLS SuperDraft.
Buete was a three-year captain for Cirovski and the Terps from 2001-2003 and was an NSCAA First Team All-American in 2003 after snagging third team honors in 2002. He led Maryland to two College Cup appearances, an Atlantic Coast Conference tournament title in 2002 and an ACC Regular Season title in 2003.
Following his collegiate career, Buete was a first round draft pick for the Chicago Fire of Major League Soccer and also had stints with the Atlanta Silverbacks, Charleston Battery and Tampa Bay Rowdies of the USL and the Baltimore Blast of the MISL. Buete also served as the academy director for the Baton Rouge Soccer Club.
Buete is a native of Bowie, Md and starred at Bowie High School. He was a 1998 finalist for the U.S. U-18 National Team.
