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Kate Koth M '20 joined the North Central College coaching staff prior to the 2018-2019 academic year as a graduate assistant coach for the Cardinals women's soccer program and was promoted to head assistant coach prior to the 2020-2021 season. She also serves as North Central's Athletic Events and Facilities Coordinator.
Since Koth joined the coaching staff, the Cardinals have gone 97-40-11 while advancing to the CCIW Tournament Championship game six times during her tenure. In 2023, North Central won its first-ever CCIW Regular Season Championship and CCIW Tournament titles. The Cardinals won the CCIW Tournament in 2023, 2024, and 2025, earning bids to the NCAA Tournament each year. As of the 2025 season, Koth has coached six All-Americans and 21 All-Region selections.
Koth assists with the coaching of North Central's goalkeepers while also playing a lead role in the Cardinals' recruiting and fundraising efforts as well as running all social media accounts for the program.
Koth was a four-year member of the women's soccer program at Carthage College, earning Academic All-College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) accolades as a junior and serving as a team captain as a senior.
In February 2020, Koth was named the head girl's soccer coach at Montini Catholic High School in Lombard, Illinois, while also serving as a junior academy coach for the Chicago Rush Soccer Club in Oswego, Ill. Koth's Montini Catholic team took third in the IHSA Tournament in 2022, earning the program's first-ever state trophy. She gained coaching experience previously serving as an assistant coach for Indian Trail High School and the Kenosha Area Soccer League and as the goalkeeper coach for the Kenosha Crew Soccer Club.
A native of Alexandria, Virginia, Koth graduated from Carthage in May 2018 with a bachelor's degree in marketing and graduated in 2020 from North Central with a master's degree in leadership development, with an emphasis in sports leadership.
