Lakeland College Women's Soccer Coaches

Adam Galla
Head Coach

Adam Galla

Email: gallaAM@lakeland.edu
Phone: (920)-565-1244

Adam Galla enters his first season as head women’s soccer coach at Lakeland College.

Galla comes to Lakeland from Central Methodist University in Fayette, Mo.,  where he served as the top assistant coach.

At Central Methodist, Galla helped established the women’s program as a competitor, taking the Lady Eagles from a 3-12-3 overall mark in the 2010-11 season to a 14-3-2 record in the 2011-12 season. He led the Lady Eagles to a 4-2-1 record in the Heart of America Athletic Conference and a No. 3 seed in the HAAC Tournament.

Galla brings seven years of coaching experience at various club soccer teams in Missouri. He served as head coach for the Columbia Pride U-18 Boys’ team and an assistant coach for the 1996 Girl’s Olympic Development Program (ODP) team. Gala holds his USSF "D" License, and in June 2010 he earned his NSCAA National Diploma.

A native of St. Charles, Mo., Gala was a four-year letter winner at William Woods University in Fulton, Mo., and was the backbone of the Owls’ defense.

Galla earned his master’s degree of education from Central Methodist in 2011 and earned a bachelors in social work from William Woods in 2007.

Kim Kriese
Assistant Coach

Kim Kriese

Email: KrieseKN@lakeland.edu
Phone: (920)-565-1447

Kim Kriese enters her second season as an assistant coach for Lakeland Women’s soccer.

Kriese, a native of Stevens Point, graduated from Marian University in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in May 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. 

While attending Marian, Kriese played on the women’s soccer team.  Kriese excelled in soccer all four years and was a three-time NAC First Team all conference player.  In 2011, she was also named Offensive Player of the Year as well as Marian’s Female Athlete of the Year.

She was named to the ESPN/CoSIDA All-District First Team in 2010 and NSCAA Third Team Scholar All-Central Region in 2009.

Kriese also holds Marian’s and NAC career goals, career points records, as well as Marian's career game-winning goals record.

She is currently working on her masters in higher education counseling.  She hopes to be a college coach or sports psychologists at the collegiate level.



Record

  • Overall Record: 0-0
  • Conference Record: 0-0

Next Game

Women's Soccer9/1/2012
Lakeland1:00 PM
St. Norbert College

NCAA Bids

  • 2003
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LMC Regular Season Championships

  • 2002
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