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A soccer icon in Southwestern Ohio, Miami University head coach Bobby Kramig (pronounced: CRAY-mig) enters his 28th season as the mentor of Miami soccer and 14th year at the helm of a women’s program that has experienced dramatic growth and success under his guidance. Over the past 13 seasons, Kramig has taken an infant women’s soccer program and developed it into one of the premier programs in the Great Lakes Region. Kramig has posted a solid 132-109-18 (.544) mark since the start of the women’s program in 1997, including a stunning 64-21-4 (.742) record over a four-year stretch from 1999-2002 that included four consecutive MAC Championship match appearances, three MAC Tournament titles, back-to-back appearances in the second round of the NCAA Tournament and a MAC regular-season championship. After a one-year absence from the MAC Tournament in 2003, Kramig has guided Miami to the league’s postseason tournament in each of the past six seasons, including its fifth-ever championship game berth in 2009 and semifinal appearances in 2005 and 2006. Following a first-round exit in 2004, Miami rebounded to finish the 2005 campaign with nine wins, including a 1-0 win over then-No. 17 Michigan, Miami’s first win over a nationally-ranked opponent since 2001. In 2009, the RedHawks set school records for fewest goals allowed in a season (14), which was also the fewest in the MAC, and goals-against average (0.65), which ranked 18th nationally, en route to a 12-win campaign and the MAC title game. In 2002, Kramig directed the most impressive season in MAC women’s soccer history, as his squad posted MAC and Miami records for overall (19) and league (11) wins. The season also included the first regular-season MAC championship in program history. Kramig’s RedHawks advanced to their third straight NCAA Tournament, knocking off Michigan State in the first round to advance to the second round for the second straight season. In 2001, Kramig guided the Red and White to the MAC’s first NCAA Tournament win, stunning nationally-ranked West Virginia, 1-0, in what was arguably the biggest first-round upset of the 2001 NCAA Tournament. The RedHawks concluded the season as the first MAC team to receive votes in a final NSCAA Top-25 poll. Miami made its inaugural NCAA Tournament appearance in 2000 after clinching the program’s first MAC Tournament Championship with a 1-0 double-overtime defeat of Bowling Green. The Red and White fell just short in its NCAA Tournament debut, tumbling 4-3 in double-overtime to Big Ten power Michigan. The pivotal season for Kramig’s Miami women’s soccer program came in 1999, when the Red and White posted the biggest single-season turnaround in the nation. After posting just 12 wins in its first two seasons as a varsity program, the RedHawks won 14 of their first 16 matches on the way to a then-program-record 17 wins and their first MAC Championship match, which was decided by penalty kicks in favor of Eastern Michigan after 150 minutes. Kramig’s players also have raked in an impressive array of individual honors at the conference, state, regional and national levels.

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