Coaches

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.