Kimberly Uetrecht

Bio

Kimberly Uetrecht begins her first season as the women’s soccer head coach and sixth overall at Texas A&M University-Victoria.

Uetrecht takes over after five seasons as an assistant for both the men's and women's teams under former head coach Adrian Rigby.

During her five years as an assistant, Uetrecht helped the UHV women to three Red River Athletic Conference tournament appearances in 2021, 2022 and 2024. The Jaguars also received the United Soccer Coaches Academic Award in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 while she was an assistant.

She also helped the men to conference championships in 2020 and 2021, as well as the RRAC Tournament championship in 2021.

A native of Dallas, Uetrecht joins the program after two years as head coach for the North Park University women’s soccer program. She has also served three seasons as the women’s associate head coach at Adrian College (Mich.).

Prior to coaching at Adrian, Uetrecht first began coaching in a collegiate setting at Concordia University - Nebraska where she graduated May 2015 with an MBA in Health Care Administration. Working mainly with the goalkeepers as a Graduate Assistant, she helped lead the Bulldogs to their first NAIA National Tournament appearance in program history. Uetrecht also guided the Bulldogs to a GPAC Tournament Championship.

As a player, Uetrecht was a four-year varsity starter (2009-2012) and three-year varsity captain (2010-2012) at Ohio Christian University where she graduated in December of 2012 with a Bachelor's of Arts in International Business and Pre-Law. She was inducted into the OCU Hall of Fame in 2019.

She also played with an elite group of athletes in the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) as a Clermont Phoenix and served as the team chaplain.

In 2012, Uetrecht received the National Christian College Athletic Association Michelle Akers award that honors a student-athlete who best models the values of America's first female soccer star.

Uetrecht received her Doctorate of Education (EdD) in Sport and Performance Psychology from the University of Western States in September 2020.