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Stefanie Golan

Stefanie Golan, a St. Charles, Missouri native, was named the University of Missouri's second women's soccer head coach in May 2021.

The 2023 season will be Golan's 15th as a head coach and third at Missouri. In 14 seasons, she has totaled a 137-100-38 (.567) career record.

Golan came to Mizzou after spending nine seasons building a championship program at the University of Minnesota.

In nine seasons as head coach at Minnesota (2012-2020), Golan fashioned a 92-64-24 (.578) record with four NCAA Tournament appearances, one Big Ten regular-season title, a pair of Big Ten Tournament championships and eight winning seasons.

Leading the Gophers to the 2018 Big Ten Tournament Title, Golan's squad ran through the tournament without allowing a single goal after entering as the seventh seed. With qualification secured for the NCAA Tournament, Minnesota upset Auburn 2-0 in the first round before falling to the UCLA Bruins in the second round of play.

Golan earned her 100th career win against Utah State on Sept. 8, 2017. The milestone came in the form of a 5-0 defeat of the Aggies in her nine seasons as a head coach.

Named Big Ten Coach of the Year in 2016, Golan led Minnesota to a 16-3-4 record and the program's first sweep of the Big Ten regular-season and tournament titles. The Gophers finished the 2016 campaign ranked in the Top 15 nationally after earning the highest national ranking in program history at No. 8. That squad also boasted the Big Ten Forward of the Year in Simone Kolander and the Big Ten Defender of the Year in Rashida Beal, who earned All-America honors and later drafted by FC Kansas City.

Golan guided the 2015 Gophers to the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2010 and a 12-7-3 record. The program was ranked as high as No. 11 during the season, and Kolander earned the first of two Big Ten Forward of the Year honors.

In 2013, after Minnesota's third NCAA Tournament appearance, freshman Tarah Hobbs earned a pair of invites to the U20 Women's National Team Training Camps after a season where she was honored with NSCAA second-team All-Great Lakes, 2013 Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Year, All-Big Ten first team and Big Ten All-Freshman Team honors.

Before moving to the Twin Cities to guide the Minnesota program, Golan sept five and a half years at Army West Point, serving as the associate head coach in 2007 and 2008. In three years as the head coach, 2009-11, she led the team to a 33-18-10 record and the program's second-ever NCAA Tournament appearance in 2011.

After debuting as the Black Knights' head coach in 2009, Golan's 2010 squad registered the program's highest win total since 1996 with its 14-4-3 record. It allowed just six goals on the season en route to a share of the Patriot League's regular-season championship. In her final season at West Point, Army went 12-4-5 and won the 2011 Patriot League Tournament title with a thrilling 2-0 win over arch-rival Navy to earn the second-ever NCAA Tournament appearance in program history.

Prior to joining the Army West Point staff, Golan served as an assistant coach at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Evansville after launching her career as a graduate assistant at Mercer University. The St. Charles native is an active member of the NSCAA and a former Chair of the NSCAA Great Lakes Region for the organization's All-America Committee.

Golan earned a soccer scholarship to Duke University (Stefanie Kraay), where she played 56 games from 1997-2001 and helped lead the team to four NCAA Tournament appearances. The former Blue Devil earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 2001 before adding a master's in sports leadership from Northeastern University in 2012.

Golan has two sons, Travis and Max, and a pair of dogs, Sarge and Captain.

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Andy Stoots

Andy Stoots was named to the Mizzou soccer staff as the associate head coach in May 2021.

Stoots came to Mizzou by way of the University of Louisville. He spent five years with the Cardinals' program, making two NCAA Tournament appearances. Working primarily with the goalkeepers and attacking players, Stoots helped Louisville's offensive production increase while improving its final RPI and win total in each of his last three seasons with the team.

The Cardinals reached the NCAA Tournament in 2018 and 2019. Each season, they topped their previous program-best finish in ACC regular-season play, finishing sixth in 2018 and fourth the following year. Louisville reached the NCAA Tournament Second Round in 2019.

Before his stint at Louisville, Stoots spent time on Golan's Minnesota staff. As an assistant coach for the Golden Gophers, he was a part of the 2016 team that captured the Big Ten's regular season and tournament titles. Minnesota led the Big Ten in goals and assists while allowing only three goals during conference play en route to the First Round of the NCAA Tournament.

Prior to his tenure in the Twin Cities, Stoots made stops at a handful of institutions in the southeast that neighbor Mizzou's SEC rivals--Samford, Belmont, East Tennessee State and Troy.

A four-year letterwinner in net at Milligan University, Stoots was named team captain in his final two seasons. While at Milligan, he set a school record with 15 wins in 2001 and holds career records in shutouts, goals-against average and wins.

A native of Bristol, Tenn., Stoots received his bachelor's degree from Milligan in human performance and exercise science in 2002. He holds a USSF National D License and NSCAA Premier Diploma.

Stoots and his wife Tiffany have three children, Ethan, Audrey and Sawyer.

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Kelsey Wys

Kelsey Wys was brought on staff as an assistant coach with Mizzou soccer Feb. 2022.

Wys joined the Tigers after serving as an assistant with Appalachian State for two seasons from 2020-21. She helped the Mountaineers to nine clean sheets during her two seasons with App State while functioning as the goalkeeper coach. Wys would also assist with game planning, specifically on the defensive side.

Before turning to coaching, Wys saw success with UMF Selfoss of the Icelandic Urvalsdeild kvenna. In Aug. 2019., she helped Selfoss to a 2-1 defeat of KR in the Icelandic Cup finals, securing the club’s first major trophy.

The first goalkeeper off the board in the 2014 NWSL College Draft, Wys was selected by the Western New York Flash. She made nine starts in 10 appearances in her rookie season before joining the Washington Spirit for the next four years, 2015-18. During the 2016 season, she led the Spirit to the finals of the NWSL Tournament as the starting keeper.

Prior to her time as a professional, Wys was a standout goalkeeper at Florida State University and a four-year starter from 2010-13. She led the Seminoles to two ACC titles and a national runner-up finish in 2013. Individually, she earned All-American honors in 2012 and she was named to the Mac Hermann Trophy Watch List in 2013. She finished her FSU playing career, holding 17 total goalkeeper records in school history. She was the career record holder for minutes played by goalkeeper (8,518), wins (74), shutouts (45) and starts (96); all-time leader in wins (29), shutouts (20.0), saves (132) and consecutive shutout minutes (621:10) in ACC games only; all-time leader in wins (16), shutouts (9.0) and saves (63) in NCAA Tournament games.

A Coral Springs, Fla. native, Wys earned a bachelor’s degree in family and child sciences from Florida State in 2013.