University of Wisconsin - Parkside

Univ of Wisconsin Parkside Athletics
900 Wood Rd Kenosha, WI 53141

Division 2 Wisconsin Midwest

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Brittany Nikolic

Brittany Nikolic was named head coach of the women's soccer team in June of 2015, becoming just the fourth head coach in the storied history of the program. She enters her eighth year at the helm in the current 2022 season.

For the 2021 season, Nikolic’s team went 3-14-2 overall and 1-9-1 in GLIAC play. The team was off to a good start with two wins in their first three games. The teams season ended after a hard-fought battle in the GLIAC quarter final against #1 Grand Valley State. Alexis Baker was named to the 2021 GLIAC Honorable Mention team.

Parkside finished with a 7-11-1 record in 2019 and went 2-6-1 in GLIAC play. 2019 also marked the second year in a row that Nikolic helped the program qualify for the GLIAC tournament. Nikolic also helped guide Jazmin Castanon to an All-GLIAC Honorable Mention for her 2019 campaign.

In 2018, the Rangers first year in the GLIAC, Nikolic led the team to a 6-10-2 overall record and 4-5 GLIAC record. Parkside entered the GLIAC tournament with a six seed, and fell to Saginaw Valley State in the Quarterfinals. After the 2018 season, Chloe Couves was awarded an All-GLIAC Honorable Mention selection.

In 2017, Parkside was hit hard due to conference sanctions, helping to result in a 3-12-2 record in Nikolic's third season at the helm.

After compiling a 6-8-3 record in 2015, her first season, Nikolic guided the Rangers to a 10-6-2 overall record and a 10-4-1 record in conference play in 2016 and helped the team qualify for the GLVC Tournament.

Much like her previous years, the women's soccer program continues to value education under Nikolic, as the program tied for most All-Academic selections at Parkside following the 2017 campaign. Taylor Burek, Sarah Dobrowolski and Lexie Porter all won the award for the fourth time of their careers.

Before Parkside, Nikolic served as an assistant coach at Northwestern, UNLV, and Milwaukee from 2004-2008. She helped Milwaukee to a Horizon League regular season and tournament title in 2008 and UNLV to a Mountain West Conference Tournament crown in 2006 along with a regular season title for the Rebels in 2007.

Nikolic was a standout at Stanford as a player from 2000-03, guiding the Cardinal to four NCAA Tournament appearances including a Pac-10 Conference Championship and a trip to the NCAA Quarterfinals in 2002. She finished her decorated career as a two-time Honorable Mention All-Pac 10 Conference selection and a two-time All-Pac 10 Conference Academic Honors recipient before heading to the collegiate coaching ranks.

The Los Angeles, California, native comes to Parkside after a six-year stint as head coach at NCAA Division III Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she inherited a program that collected just 20 wins in the eight years prior to her arrival on campus. Nikolic has since rewrote the record book at the all-women's college, guiding the Inferno to their best season in program history in 2013 while exiting as the program's all-time winningest coach.

Nikolic graduated from Stanford in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in American studies with a focus in politics, policy, and economics.

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Andrea Borray Ortiz

Andrea Borray Ortiz Joined Parkside Athletics as the Women’s Soccer Graduate Assistant Coach on August 1st, 2022.

She is from Bogota, Colombia. She served as an Assistant Women’s Soccer Coach at Highland for one season in 2021-2022 after serving as a graduate assistant coach for the Women’s Soccer program at Concordia University, Nebraska (CUNE) for two seasons in 2019-2021, where she helped the program to win the conference championship 2020-2021. Also, during her time at CUNE, Andrea got her Master's in Business Administration.

Prior to her time at CUNE, Andrea went to Laramie County Community College for her freshman year and then transferred to Ohio Valley University (OVU), where she got her Bachelors in Sports Management with minors in Business, Coaching, and Management.

In 2015, Andrea played in 16 games for the Fighting Scots. On October 1st she scored 7 goals on the road at Salem International University. To this day that still stands as both the Ohio Valley University and Great Midwest Athletic Conference record for goals in a game. She finished the season with 14 goals, which broke the school record for both goals in a season and goals in a career. Also, she was athlete of the month in October 2015. In her Junior year, Andrea played in 15 games for the Fighting Scots. She scored 3 goals and had 3 assists. She broke the record for both goals in a season (14) and goals in a career (17). Finally, in her last season, she served as a captain, and she played 20 games the season and started 19 of them. She added one assist. She won the Great Midwest Women’s Soccer regular season champion 2017-2018 undefeated and the G-MAC Championship 2017-2018. Also, she played two seasons 2017-2019 for the Lacrosse women’s team at OVU, where she was in the G-MAC All-Conference First Team Women’s Lacrosse 2019.

In 2017, Andrea did a summer internship as an assistant coach for the Gryphons FC women’s soccer team U-21 in Guelph, Canada. Also, the Next summer she returned to the club but this time as a player and she was Co-Captain of the Gryphons FC women’s soccer team.

Before Andrea came to the United States, she was selected for the pre-national Colombian Women’s soccer team U17 in 2012. She was 4 times champions of the Bogotá League (2011-2012-2013-2014), and she was the Champion of Aruba's international cup (2013).

Andrea is the daughter of Alberto Borray and Adriana Ortiz and she has one brother, Johann Borray.