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Northfield, MN 55057
Minnesota Northwest
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Jessica Mueller

Jessica Mueller re-joined the Knights prior to the 2020-21 academic year, a period that saw the Knights conduct team practices but not participate in intercollegiate competition due to the pandemic. During the fall 2021 season—a campaign that saw Carleton earn a regional ranking from the United Soccer Coaches—the Knights posted a winning percentage of .500 or better for the 12th time in the last 15 seasons. Mueller improved on that in 2022, leading her team to the MIAC regular season crown as the squad went undefeated in conference play.


This is Mueller's third stint with the women's soccer program at Carleton, having previously served as an assistant coach for the team from 2009-11 and again from 2013-16.


Previously, Mueller was the head coach of the varsity girls soccer program at Eden Prairie (Minn.) High School from 2016-20, and during those four seasons, she coached 10 players who earned scholarships to play at the NCAA D-I and D-II levels in addition to several D-III players.


In 2018, Mueller was voted Minnesota State High School League's Section 2AA Coach of the Year. That same year she began coaching the U17 Girls squad at Tonka Fusion Elite, a nationally ranked Premier I club team that won the Minnesota State Cup championship in 2019 and qualified for US Club Nationals for the 2019 & 2020 seasons. Prior to that role, she was technical director and team coach for the Eden Prairie Soccer Club from 2011-18 and spent the 2012 season on the coaching staff at St. Paul (Minn.) Academy. She possesses both a USC/NSCAA Advanced National Diploma and an USSF National "C" Coaching License.

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Bob Carlson

The 2023 campaign marks Bob Carlson's 26th season at the helm of the Carleton men's soccer program. He has completed the trifecta by winning MIAC regular-season and playoff titles as each a player, assistant coach, and a head coach. Nine of those 12 trophies have come during his time guiding the Knights.


The Knights won the 2021 MIAC Playoffs Championship over rival St. Olaf and returned to the NCAA Championships for the fifth time.


Carlson has led his team to 15 consecutive postseason berths, extending the program's MIAC record. Over that span, he has guided the Knights to five MIAC regular-season titles (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2012) and five additional second-place finishes. Since the start of the 2007 campaign, his squads own a 190-72-33 record (.666).


His 2008 team captured the conference's post-season title as well as the program's first-ever trip to the NCAA Championships, where the Knights advanced to the "Sweet Sixteen." The Knights made back-to-back NCAA Championship appearances in 2012 and 2013, before returning to the national tournament again in 2018. Carlson has been named MIAC Coach-of-the-Year four times (2007, 2008, 2012, 2018).


On Sept. 18, 2019, Carlson earned his 250th career win in a 3-0 victory over Bethel University. Carlson is tops in the MIAC and 21st among active D-III coaches in career victories. The Knights have posted 22 winning seasons under his direction. In comparison, Carleton posted only eight winning seasons in the 24 years prior to his arrival.


With an overall ledger of 280-145-48 during his first 25 seasons at the helm, Carlson ranks first all-time at Carleton in both career victories and winning percentage (.643) among coaches with more than one season at the school. His tenure has been marked by consistent play and strong finishes in the MIAC, perennially one of the strongest men's soccer conferences in all of NCAA Division III. For the past 25 years his team has also earned the United Soccer Coaches (formerly the NSCAA) Team Academic awards, including three years in which the Knights posted the highest team grade point average in all of NCAA Division I, II and III.


A 1986 graduate of St. Olaf College, Carlson was a standout player for the Oles as a team captain, all-conference selection, and four-year letter-winner. He helped St. Olaf capture the 1984 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) crown and an NCAA tournament bid, the first-ever for a MIAC institution. As a coach, Carlson returned to Minnesota in 1991 as an assistant at Gustavus Adolphus College. During his four-year tenure there, the Gusties won two conference championships and earned two NCAA tournament bids.


A native of Illinois, Carlson was an all-area soccer and basketball player at New Trier High School. He is married to Cathy Carlson, Associate Dean of Students at Carleton; the couple has a son, Sam, and a daughter, Emma.

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Joe Hartwell

Joe Hartwell joined the Knights prior to the 2011 season after previously spending five years as an assistant at his alma mater Gustavus Adolphus College. He was a NSCAA First-Team All-American central defender for the Gusties in 2004. Hartwell secured MIAC Player of the Year honors as he scored five goals and added two assists in addition to anchoring a defense that yielded just four goals in 23 games during that campaign. He was inducted into the Gustavus Athletics Hall of Fame in 2022. Hartwell has served as a club coach for nearly two decades and currently coaches at Minnesota Thunder Academy. He and his wife, Jessica, live in Rosemount, Minn.

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