Kim Kriese is in her second year as the head women’s soccer coach at Lakeland College.
Kriese served as the team’s interim coach last year and coached the Muskies through their 2014 season, leading the team to a 3-16-1 record in her first season as a collegiate head coach. She was named the program’s full-time head coach in January.
"I'm excited to officially take over the program," said Kriese. "I'm excited to have the opportunity to continue building the culture, traditions, and foundation that our program established this past season that will allow the program to be successful in the years to come. Our program has a lot of potential and I'm happy I get to continue to expose it to the soccer world, the community of Sheboygan and Lakeland College.
Kriese is in her fifth year with the Lakeland women's soccer program. She served as the team's graduate assistant coach in 2011 and 2012 and continued as an assistant with the program in 2013.
Kriese came to Lakeland after playing soccer for four years at Marian University in Fond du Lac. Competing at one of Lakeland's rival schools in the Northern Athletics (now Northern Athletics Collegiate) Conference, Kriese was a three-time First Team All-NAC player, and as a senior in 2011 was named NAC Offensive Player of the Year as well as Marian's Female Athlete of the Year. She holds Marian school records for matches started (75), goals (66), points (156), shots (346) and game-winning goals (18).
Kriese also was an excellent student at Marian. She was named an NSCAA Third Team All-Central Region Scholar in 2009 and to the ESPN/CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team in 2010. Kriese is a native of Stevens Point and graduated from Marian in May 2011 with a bachelor's degree in psychology. In 2013, she completed her masters from Lakeland in higher education counseling.
