Lakeland College

Lakeland College Women's Soccer Coaches

Adam Galla
Head Coach

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

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

Kim Kriese enters her second season as an assistant coach for the Lakeland women's soccer team.

Kriese came to Lakeland after playing soccer for four years at Marian University in Fond du Lac. Competing at one of Lakeland's rival schools in the Northern Athletics Conference, Krise was a three-time First Team All-NAC player, and as a senior in 2011 she was named NAC Offensive Player of the Year as well as Marian's Female Athlete of the Year. She holds Marian school records for matches started (75), goals (66), points (156), shots (346) and game-winning goals (18).

Kriese also was an excellent student at Marian. She was named an NSCAA Third Team All-Central Region Scholar in 2009 and to the ESPN/CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team in 2010. Kriese is a native of Stevens Point and graduated from Marian in May 2011 with a bachelor's degree in psychology. She is currently working on her masters from Lakeland in higher education counseling and hopes to be a college coach or sports psychologist.