Kalamazoo College Women's Soccer Coaching Staff

Passage’s Record at Kalamazoo College Year  Overall   MIAA    Place 2007 11-5-2 6-3-1 t-3rd 2006 9-6-3 3-4-3 5th 2005 9-9-1 8-8-0 5th Overall Record:  29-20-6 MIAA Record:     17-15-4 Overall Winning Percentage: .582 MIAA Winning Percentage: .528

Laura Passage
Head Coach
E-MAIL - laurap@kzoo.edu

Laura (Whiteley) Passage K'96 completed her third season at the helm of the Hornet women's soccer program in 2007. Upon returning to Kalamazoo as head coach in 2005, she became the first female head coach in Kalamazoo College women's soccer history, and also the first alumnus of the team to return as head coach. During her short time as the Hornets' head coach, Passage has already helped rebuild the program to the point where her 2006 and 2007 squads posted the best overall results that the team had seen in five years, since the 2001 team went 13-6.

Prior to her current tenure at Kalamazoo College, Passage spent the previous six seasons as the head coach at Rhodes College (NCAA Division III) in Memphis, Tennessee. There, she quickly turned around a Lynx program that finished 4-13-2 (.263) in her inaugural season (1999), and soon went on to earn consecutive winning seasons and consecutive Top-10 South Region rankings during her final three years as coach (2002-04). Her Rhodes teams produced numerous all-conference and all-region players, while maintaining one of the nation's most challenging schedules against numerous regionally- and nationally-ranked teams.

Before her time at Rhodes, Passage was the assistant women's coach at Western Michigan University (NCAA Division I) in 1997 and 1998. While at WMU, she helped coach the Broncos to a second-place finish in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) in just the second year of the program.

She then moved to the Memphis area in 1998, and began working as a full-time staff coach with Germantown Soccer Club (GSC). She coached three of GSC's top-ranked Fury girls' teams (the 87, 84, and 83 Premier teams) between 1998 and 2001, winning three Tennessee State Soccer Championships along the way.

Passage grew up in Northville, Michigan, where she was a member of Michigan's Olympic Development Program (ODP) during her high school years. She continued her playing career at Kalamazoo College, where she was a four-year letter winner and helped lead the Hornets to three consecutive conference championships and NCAA Division III Top-10 and Top-20 rankings. Later, her playing career included a stint in the women's semi-professional USWISL (now the USL; better known as the "W" League), as a player for the Kalamazoo Quest.

Passage earned her B.A. in psychology at Kalamazoo College, and her M.A. in sports administration at Western Michigan University. She holds the highest licensing of any collegiate soccer coach in the Kalamazoo area (of both men's and women's coaches), with both a United States Soccer Federation (USSF) "B" License and an Advanced National Diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA).

She resides in Kalamazoo with her husband, Hornet Men's Basketball Coach Rob Passage.

Bryan Goyings
Assistant Coach

Bryan Goyings K'04 returned to the Hornet women's soccer coaching staff for a second year in 2007. A newcomer to the Hornet coaching ranks last season, Goyings was an integral part in helping the team achieve its best overall results in five years, since the 2001 season. Before joining the Hornet coaching staff, Goyings was no stranger to Kalamazoo College soccer. A four-year letter winner on the men's side (2000-03), Goyings was a member of Hornet teams that won three MIAA championships and participated in the NCAA tournament twice.

He has since become heavily involved as a coach in the local youth soccer scene, where his varying posts have included time as the head junior varsity girls' coach at Wayland High School, as the assistant boys' varsity coach at Plainwell High school, as a staff coach for the Portage Lightning Soccer Club, and as a staff coach with the Kalamazoo Kingdom Reserves soccer club and director of the its youth programs in 2006.

Goyings originally hails from Jackson, Michigan, and is a graduate of Lumen Christi High School. He currently holds a United States Soccer Federation (USSF) "C" License, a National Youth License, and a NSCAA Regional Goalkeepeing Diploma. He resides in Kalamazoo and is currently looking to secure a career in the field of education.