CHICAGO – College of Chicago’s defending-Nationwide Champion males’s soccer program has tabbed Phillip Kroft as its latest head coach, as introduced on Wednesday.
Kroft brings a wide range of expertise throughout collegiate ranges to Hyde Park and can inherit a bulk of the 2022 roster, of which was topped the Nationwide Champions for the primary time at school historical past. He most not too long ago served as the top coach at Division III Johnson and Wales-Charlotte and in addition has held roles at Division III Catholic College and Division I Davidson School.
“I might prefer to thank Angie Torain and the opposite members of the search committee for the chance to be a part of this historic program. I’m humbled by the prospect to work with such excessive caliber individuals, and excited to play my half in persevering with UChicago’s holistic success,” remarked Kroft.
“We have been lucky to have a profitable group of coaches to steer our males’s soccer program and are excited so as to add Phillip to that listing. He has been profitable at main and growing younger males and we look ahead to him doing the identical as a Maroon,” stated Torain.
Whereas at JWU, Kroft led this system to a USCAA Nationwide Championship and 11-5-5 general document. Underneath Kroft, the Wildcats boasted a complete of 4 All-America and 6 Educational All-America award-winners in his two years on the helm.
At Davidson, he served because the lead assistant for 3 seasons, two of which, 2019 and 2021, got here beneath former UChicago head coach Mike Babst. Throughout that point, the Wildcats reached the A-10 Convention Event thrice and had a program-record end of 2nd in 2018.
Kroft additionally brings NCAA expertise as a student-athlete as two-year member of Division I Mount St. Mary’s College. Exterior of his collegiate resume, he has held roles with MLS-clubs D.C. United and Austin FC, primarily with the youth ranks.
A local of Virginia Seashore, Va., Kroft holds a bachelor’s diploma in Biology and Secondary Training from George Mason College and a grasp’s diploma in Constructive Teaching and Athletic Chief from the College of Missouri.
