{"id":396509,"date":"2026-01-08T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/396509\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:10:08","slug":"michigan-womens-soccer-coach-jen-klein-resigns-after-8-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/396509\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan women&#8217;s soccer coach Jen Klein resigns after 8 seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After eight seasons, coach Jen Klein\u2019s time with the Michigan women\u2019s soccer team has come to a close. The <a href=\"https:\/\/mgoblue.com\/news\/2026\/1\/8\/womens-soccer-klein-to-pursue-other-opportunities\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announcement<\/a> of her resignation came Thursday, with Klein citing her desire to pursue other professional opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was truly an honor,\u201d Klein said in the announcement. \u201cI will cherish the memories I made during my time in Ann Arbor and at Michigan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Klein took the head coaching mantle in 2018, the Wolverines hadn\u2019t managed a Big Ten Tournament title since 1999. Just three years into her tenure, she broke that narrative. In 2021, Michigan was crowned the Big Ten Tournament champions, made a push all the way to the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals and tied the program record for wins in a single season with 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Throughout her tenure, Klein earned a 72-58-21 record and led the Wolverines to the NCAA tournament three times. She coached her Michigan players to 40 all-Big Ten Awards and notably coached Canadian Olympic gold medalist Jayde Riviere.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJen is a great coach and a tremendous person,\u201d Athletics Director Warde Manuel said in the announcement. \u201cWe are grateful for everything she did for this university, department, her student-athletes and Michigan women\u2019s soccer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michigan will now begin a national search to find Klein\u2019s successor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated articles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After eight seasons, coach Jen Klein\u2019s time with the Michigan women\u2019s soccer team has come to a close.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-396509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}