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Bard College

Annandale-On-Hudson, NY 12504
New York Northeast
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Kate Hofstede

Kate Hofstede arrived at Bard in March of 2021 as the Head Women's Soccer coach and will be in her third season at the helm.


A former player and coach on the NCAA Div. I level, Hofstede has years of experience in coaching, recruiting and player development. She was the head coach at Marist College from 2011-17, earning Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Coach of the Year after the 2011 season. In 2012, she led the squad to a program-record 15 wins, and overall in six seasons at Marist, the Red Foxes made five MAAC Tournament appearances. As a member of the Diversity Council at Marist, she and the team were involved in several events on and off campus related to diversity, equity and inclusion.


Prior to her work at Marist, Hofstede was the top assistant coach and Director of Goalkeeping at her alma mater, Columbia University, from 2005-06, and 2007-11. Columbia went 36-21-12 during her time as a coach there. She played at Columbia, both as a goalkeeper and a field player, and obtained her Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and Education (2005) and her Master's Degrree in Physical Education (2011) there.


Just before coming to Bard, Hofstede was coaching on the youth level, working with high school-aged players on college recruitment. She serves as the regional scout for the United States Women's Youth National Teams, and a coach and player evaluator for the Olympic Development Program.

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Colin Schroeder

Colin Schroeder joined the women's soccer staff in the summer of 2022.


Colin was a four-year member of the men's soccer and volleyball teams, leading the volleyball team in digs in 2019. He was consistently one of Bard's best performers in the classroom as well, garnering United Volleyball Conference All-Academic honors twice.


In the 2020-21 Athletic Awards, Colin was one of three student-athletes to be given the Dr. James Brudvig Achievement Award. It is given to student-athletes who demonstrate senior leadership and commitment to Athletics.

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Jimmy Rodewald

Jimmy Rodewald, a Bard graduate, returned to Bard in the summer of 2015.


A writer, editor and author, Jimmy Rodewald’s journalism career has taken him all over the world—as a reporter at Sports Illustrated (1986-1996) and an editor at Gourmet magazine (1998-2009)—and in June 2015 it brought him back to Annandale, where he is an editor in the Bard College Publications Department.


A four-year starter in goal as a Bard undergraduate, Rodewald later played in an indoor league in Phoenix while in graduate school, and also played in Northern Mexico with a Santa Fe, New Mexico–based men’s team. He has coached youth-team and high school goalkeepers in the Southwest and at Notre Dame School of Manhattan.


He published his book, American Spirit: An Exploration of the Craft Distilling Revolution(Sterling), in 2014.

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TJ Kostecky

TJ Kostecky arrived at Bard in July of 2019.


He came to Bard after 20 years as the head coach at Div. I LIU-Brooklyn, where he led the Blackbirds to the 2018 NCAA Tournament in his final season there. During his tenure there, he won three Northeast Conference titles, made three NCAA Tournament appearances and was the NEC Coach of the Year in 2015 and 2018.


As successful as his teams have been on the pitch, Kostecky’s squads were also devoted in the classroom. His 2003 & 2012 teams posted the highest team grade point average in the nation. The 2008 & 2015 squads was awarded the NEC Team Academic Award for posting the highest GPA among men’s soccer teams in the conference. The 2011 & 2013 teams were distinguished by the conference with the NEC Sportsmanship Award.


Kostecky has a proven track record of rebuilding programs, having engineered successful turnarounds at each of his prior coaching stops. Prior to LIU, he took over an Appalachian State program in Boone, N.C., that had suffered four consecutive losing seasons prior to Kostecky’s hiring in 1998. In his only season at the school, he led the Mountaineers to a 13-8 mark in 1998, marking the best first-year record for a coach in the program’s history of over 40 years. For his efforts, he was named Southern Conference Coach of the Year.


Kostecky arrived in Boone following a successful run as head coach and director of athletics at Pfeiffer University in Misenheimer, N.C., from 1994-97. He was handed the reins of a program that had suffered eight straight losing seasons before he led the team to a 46-25-7 record and captured two Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference championships. Kostecky was named CVAC Coach of the Year in 1997 and mentored one All-American and nine all-conference honorees during his tenure.


He began his collegiate coaching career at New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he led the Highlanders from 1988-93. NJIT compiled a 67-37-11 mark in his six years, capturing conference championships in 1991 and 1992 and making four ECAC postseason trips. Kostecky’s accomplishments at NJIT came in his native New Jersey, where he starred scholastically at Woodbridge Township High School.


Tactically, Kostecky’s attacking practice sessions involve a system called Vision Training that he and business partner Len Bilous developed several years ago. This method helps players make smart, well-informed decisions by improving their field vision.


A featured clinician around the world, Kostecky conducted a coaching seminar in Masku, Finland, in March of 2005 on Vision Training. In early 2005, he released a DVD under the same name for players and coaches to use. Since its release, it has become one of the most requested coaching DVDs in the country and abroad.


Throughout his career, Kostecky has been an instrumental figure in facilitating the growth of soccer in America. From 1987-94 he was a coach for New Jersey’s Olympic Development Team and was responsible for the training and selection of the state’s top players for the United States National Team. When he accepted his post at Pfeiffer, he filled a similar role with North Carolina’s Olympic Development squad. Several of the players he mentored have played succeeded at the international level, including former U.S. National Team captain Claudio Reyna, and moved onto professional leagues such as Major League Soccer.


Kostecky has also worked with U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Team members, including Julie Foudy, a captain of the 1999 Women’s World Cup Champions. He conducted an instructional clinic for inner city children at the 1998 NCAA Division I Championships in Richmond, Va., for the NCAA Youth Education Through Sports Program and was again a guest clinician for YES at the 1999 and 2000 NCAA Championships.


In 1989, Kostecky founded Soccer Start, a youth soccer program for inner city children. He served as the program’s National Chairman until 1993. The program continues to identify and cultivate the abundance of talent in the inner-cities. He was appointed World Cup ’94 Committee Chair by then New Jersey Governor Jim Florio and coordinated training site activities in the Metropolitan area for each international team.


A former all-state performer at Woodbridge, he was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in 1995. He played midfield on the men’s soccer team at East Stroudsburg University and received a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education in 1983. He completed his master’s degree at East Stroudsburg in the same field in 1992.

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Jeroen Hofstede

Jeroen Hofstede enters his sixth season as Assistant Coach for the Men's Soccer team.


Coach Hofstede holds his EUFA C License from the KNVB Academy in the Netherlands. He serves as Director for the Dutch Elite Soccer Academy, Director of Coaching for Hyde Park Soccer Club, and Head Coach at Red Hook Soccer Club. Most recently, he was a goalkeeper coach at Division I Marist College.


Hofstede is a native of the Netherlands, where he was named Top Regional Goalie as a youth player. He was invited for the National Championships for Goalies, run by Frans Hoek, former goalkeeper coach of Ajax, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Manchester United, and the Dutch National team. Hofstede was named Runner-up in his age group, making him the second best goalie of the Netherlands.


Following his youth career, Hofstede became a professional Futsal player at age 16. In the same year, Hofstede began his coaching career, taking over the U10 team of his town club. After only one season, he was named coach of the top U11 team at his club. In his last year in the Netherlands, at the age of 23, he coached the U18 team to their first 1st Division championship in club history.


Hofstede is a licensed referee. He is also a certified elementary school teacher in the Netherlands.

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