Women's Soccer
Coaching Staff

Head Coach Lance Key

Lance Key is in his fourth season as head coach of the Trinity University Tigers women’s soccer team.

The Tigers have racked up a 45-5-6 record (.848) during Coach Key’s tenure, as well as advancing to the NCAA Division III quarterfinals in 2005. Trinity, which has appeared three times in the NCAA tournament over the past three years, also won the SCAC title in 2004.  In the 2004 campaign, Trinity produced its first undefeated regular season, with a 16-0 mark (8-0 in the SCAC). For his efforts, Coach Key has been named the 2004 and 2006 SCAC Women’s Soccer Coach of the Year.

Coach Key was a three-time National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) All-American as a player for the Tigers from 1996 to 1999. He also earned All-SCAC honors for four years. Coach Key was named the 1999 SCAC Men’s Player of the Year.

After his collegiate career, Coach Key was the only Division III player selected in the 2000 Major League Soccer draft. He played for the Colorado Rapids, where he started 34 games over a two-year span.

Coach Key has been the director of girls training for the Classics Elite Soccer Club and served as director of athletics at the Judson Montessori School. He holds an Advanced National Diploma from the NSCAA.

A graduate of San Antonio’s Taft High School, Coach Key received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Trinity in 2000.

Laura Koontz is in her first season as the assistant Trinity women’s soccer coach.

Coach Koontz comes to the Trinity campus from Virginia Wesleyan College, where she  was an assistant since August 2007.

She was a varsity soccer player for powerhouse Wheaton College (Ill.) from 2003 to 2006. Wheaton captured the NCAA Division III National Championship twice during coach Koontz’s playing days, in 2004 and 2006. She was captain of the 2006 championship team.

Coach Koontz was honored as the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) National Player of the Year in 2006, as well as being named the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) Player of the Year.

She earned All-America honors in 2005 and 2006.

A gifted student-athlete, coach Koontz qualified for the NCAA Track and Field Championships in 2005 and 2006. She was part of the CCIW champion Indoor and Outdoor 4x400-meter relay teams (2005 and 2006, respectively), which also set Wheaton records. Coach Koontz holds the distinction of being the school record-holder in the Indoor 55 and 200 meters, and the Outdoor 400 meters.

Coach Koontz, a native of Kernersville, N.C., received the Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton in studio art, in May 2007.

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