Kelly Bergmann is in her fourth consecutive year the Forestercoaching staff in 2014 and her fifth season overall. She was alsoan assistant for the team in 2009.
Lake Forest posted a combined 48-25-5 record in Bergmann's firstfour seasons on staff. The 2013 team finished with a 14-7-0 overallrecord and claimed it's second straight Midwest Conferencechampionship with a mark of 9-1-0 in league play. The Forestersalso won the MWC Tournament and earned the program's first berth inthe NCAA Dvision III Tournament since 1981.
Forester players have earned 17 All-MWC honors and garneredeight National Soccer Coaches Association of America All-Regionawards during her four seasons on staff. The team has alsooutscored its opponents 144-81 in that span.
Bergmann was the head women’s soccer coach at HopeInternational University in Fullerton, California, whereshe was named National Christian College Athletic Association WestRegion Coach of the Year in 2005. She was also an assistantwomen’s soccer coach and head softball coach at TrinityInternational University in Deerfield, Illinois, for twoyears and led the softball team to the 2007 NCCAA NationalTournament.
Bergmann has played and coached internationally with the ChicagoEagles Soccer Club and Southern California Seahorses inBrazil, Holland, Sweden, and Mexico.
The Chesterfield, Missouri, native was a four-year varsitystarter in soccer and softball at Parkway Central High School. Shewent on to play collegiate soccer and softball at Wheaton College(Ill.) and graduated with bachelors degrees in communications andeducational formation. She was a part of the 2001 NCAA DIIINational Championship final four team and co-captained the 2001Wheaton softball team. She stayed on at Wheaton as a graduateassistant softball coach and earned a masters degree in educationalformation in 2003.
Bergman and her husband, head coach Chris Bergmann,currently own and operate AIM Academic Mentoring Services. Theorganization focuses on the mental, emotional and personal wellnessof primarily middle and high school students through academicsupport in all subjects.
The Bergmanns, including children Aidan and Mackenzie,reside in Gurnee.
