Julie Saylor Young, an Amarillo, Texas, native, came to WTAMU when head coach
Butch Lauffer started up the Lady Buff women's soccer program. In their first year, Saylor Young, playing midfielder, helped lead WT to a 12-4 record and the LSC regular season championship before losing to Midwestern State University, 2-1, in the LSC Tournament championship final.
Graduating a year early, her three-year record at WT was 41-14 and the Lady Buffs were LSC Tournament runner-up also to Midwestern State in 1998. WT defeated MSU 1-0 in 1997 with Saylor Young scoring the lone goal for WT's first-ever LSC Tournament championship.
Saylor-Young's career statistics were 55 matches started, 21 goals, 24 assists, and 193 shots (3.51 average per match). She was first-team All-LSC all three years for the Lady Buffs, as well as All-LSC Academic. In 1997 she was named to the NCAA Division II Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, serving a two-year term.
The Amarillo High School also was selected to the All-Great Plains Region all three years of her career.
