Cathy Klein

Head Coach
First Year
SUNY-Cortland, 1987

Arizona Record: First year
Division I Career Record: 57-41-1 (5 years)

Last January, Cathy Klein, a former All-American player and the head coach at Iowa State for the past five years, was named the second head women's soccer coach at the University of Arizona.

Klein, 36, led the Cyclones to three postseason conference tournament appearances during her tenure and was Big 12 Conference Co-Coach of the Year in 1997 when ISU posted a 12-9 record. Her 1999 team went 13-8, reached No. 21 in the national rankings, posted a seven-game winning streak and recorded victories over nationally prominent Minnesota, Vanderbilt and Texas.

Klein was named the first coach at Iowa State in 1995 and compiled a record of 43-37-1 in four regulation seasons after the team played an exhibition year. She recruited both the 1998 and 1999 Big 12 Conference Rookies of the Year, and her 1998 team earned its best-ever Big 12 record and participated in a second consecutive Big 12 Tournament.

Including a 1994 season at Creighton, she has a Division I record of 57-41-1. Klein led Creighton to a 14-4 mark and reached a No. 17 national ranking during the 1994 season and was a perfect 8-0 at home including a victory over Big Ten champion Wisconsin.

Prior to the Creighton job, Klein spent three years as the head coach at Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., where she posted a 16-37-2 mark. The Earlham team had won just two games in the three seasons prior to Klein's takeover as head coach.

Before Earlham, Klein was the head coach at Utica College in New York, where her teams went 6-16-3 in 1987 and 1988. The Utica women's soccer program was winless in the two seasons prior to Klein's arrival.

Klein graduated from the State University of New York at Cortland in 1987 with a bachelor's in physical education. She was a two-time All-America selection in 1985 and 1986, when the school played as a Division I program, and earned Soccer America magazine "Super 11" honors as a senior.

A native of Burlington, Ontario, she went on to play for the Canadian National team from 1987 to 1990. She is involved as a regional Olympic Development Staff member and holds a United States Soccer Federation "B" license as a coach. She earned a master's degree in physical education from Kent State University in 1991.

Klein's Division I Record
Year    School          Overall Conference      Record/Place    Postseason
1994    Creighton       14-4-0  Missouri Valley
1 year       Creighton       14-4-0

1995    Iowa State              Exhibition Season
1996    Iowa State      8-12-0  Big 12          0-9-0/10th
1997    Iowa State      12-9-0  Big 12          4-6-0/6th       Big 12 Tournament
1998    Iowa State      10-8-1  Big 12          5-5-0/tied 4th  Big 12 Tournament
1999    Iowa State      13-8-0  Big 12          4-6-0/tied 7th  Big 12 Tournament
4 years      Iowa State      43-37-1

5 years      Totals  57-41-1