[3] Sawyers then joined the staff of the Stanford University women's soccer program.
During Sawyers' first season of leadership, the Stanford Cardinal earned a program-record 18 wins and reached the Final Four of the NCAA Division I Championship.
[3] In 2008, Sawyers was named head coach of Sky Blue FC, a Women's Professional Soccer team based in Somerset County in New Jersey and scheduled to play its first match in April 2009.
[5][6] On 23 May 2009, Sky Blue FC announced that Sawyers had been suspended indefinitely due to differences with the organization's ownership.
Their first child Isabel Ann was born in January 2007, and a son named Declan arrived in December 2008.