Madeleine Orr is a PhD student in Kinesiology (Sport Management emphasis) at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on sport event impact and legacy, and the relationships between sport and its geographic, economic, and social environments.
Meagan Frank played four years of Division I soccer and a year of Division III basketball at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. In the twenty years since, she has coached boys and girls teams at practically every level. She was the Head Women's Soccer Coach at UW-Stout from 2006-2010 and is currently in her third year as the Head Men's Soccer Coach for Menomonie High School.
Molly Grisham has 20 years of experience coaching club, high school, and college soccer. She previously served on the coaching staff at Ottawa University, Wayne State College, and the University of Illinois, Springfield. She now owns Influence LLC where she works with teams all over the country on leadership development, team building, group facilitation, and personality assessments.
Terry Ganley is the head coach of the Minnesota women’s swimming and diving team. In her eight seasons at the helm of the Golden Gopher program, Ganley has led the Gophers to five Big Ten titles (2008, 2012-15), three second-place Big Ten finishes and eight top-15 performances at the NCAA Championships. In the last six years with the women’s program, Minnesota finished at least 13th at the NCAA Championships including a program-best 9th-place mark in 2011 and that year three Gophers won national championships.
Dr. Missy Price has been the Head Soccer Coach and an Assistant Professor at Wellesley College since 2016. She led the Blue to postseason appearances during her first two seasons. In addition to coaching the Blue soccer program, Price is the facilitator for the department’s coaching development programming and teaches within the physical education curriculum.
A three-sport athlete in college, Sarah earned a Bachelor’s degree from Smith College and a Master’s degree in Sports Management at the University of Denver. After a 15-year collegiate soccer coaching career that included stops at each of the NCAA’s three divisions, Sarah has turned her coaching focus to youth development. As owner of SJI Training she has worked with numerous youth clubs as coach and consultant. Sarah also served for five years as Director of Coaching for New York’s Girls North Olympic Development Program (ODP) and coached for eight years with the NY Rush/Patriots Club.
Dr. Kamphoff is recognized nationally for her work and contributions to the field of performance psychology. As a leader, high performance coach, author, professor, and speaker, Dr. Kamphoff brings passion, energy, and authenticity to her work with athletes, performers, business people. She is back by popular demand at the WCS and is always a coach favorite!
Head Coach Lori Kerans completed her 29th season at the helm of the Big Blue women’s basketball program in 2014-15. On December 14, 2012, Coach Kerans became only the 15th active NCAA Division III women’s basketball coach to reach 500 victories and the 19th women’s coach all-time in Division III to reach that coaching mark. Kerans is the first women’s basketball coach in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin to reach the coveted 500 victory mark. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Alliance of Women Coaches.
Dr. M. Dianne Murphy presided over one of the most successful periods in Columbia University Athletics history during her 11-year tenure (2004-2015). She also served as the University Advisor on Athletics Issues until retiring from Columbia on June 30th, 2016 where she joined The PICTOR Group as a senior partner. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Alliance of Women Coaches.
Manning has more than 25 years of administrative and coaching experience with Big 12 and Pac-12 schools. She was inducted into the National Golf Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2000. Manning joins the Minnesota athletics department’s staff from the University of Wyoming, where she has served as the senior associate athletics director of sports administration and the senior woman administrator for the past 2.5 years.
