Klein Kicks Soccer Into High Gear


Creighton University head coach Cathy Klein was named Iowa 
State's first head women's soccer coach in June. The team, 
the first Division I women's soccer program in the state, 
began practicing in mid-August and competing in September.

Klein said she anticipates the Big 12 will become one of the 
top two conferences nationally in women's soccer. The 
Atlantic Coast Conference currently dominates women's soccer, 
she said. In addition to Iowa State, Big 12 schools Kansas, 
Nebraska, Texas, Texas Tech and Texas A&M have women's soccer 
teams this fall. Missouri will field a team in 1996; Baylor, 
Colorado and Oklahoma State plan to add teams in the future.

Last fall, in Klein's first season, her Creighton team 
finished 14-4. Prior to coaching at Creighton, Klein was the 
head women's soccer coach for three years at Earlham College, 
Richmond, Ind., and for two years at Utica College, New York.

As a student athlete at the State University at New York, 
Cortland, Klein was a two-time All-American (1985, 1986) at 
the Division I level. She also played internationally for the 
Canadian national team for three years.

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updated:  9-28-95