Colorado College Women's Soccer

Keri Sanchez enters her fourth season as the head coach at Colorado College after being named the eighth head coach in the history of the school's Division I women’s soccer program in December of 2021.   CC finished the 2024 season with an 8-9-3 record, the most wins since 2019. The Tigers had a home record of 7-1-3, the most wins at Stewart since 2019, and the best home win percentage since 2014 (77.2). Sanchez led CC to its first-ever City For Champions Cup victory with a -1 victory over Air Force on Oct. 30 to end the year on a three-game winning streak.  Sanchez's roster consisted of 21 players who were named to the Academic All-Mountain West Team. The 21 players are the third most in program history and were tied for the highest amount of any women's soccer program that year.   During the 2024 offseason, Sanchez added two additional coaches to the staff: Chris Dodd, the former head coach of DI Houston Christian University, and Kelsey Brouwer, a former assistant coach from Purdue University with six years of DI coaching experience.  In her first season with CC, Sanchez led the Tigers to a 7-7-5 overall record and a 4-3-4 mark in the Mountain West, which qualified the team for's first appearance in the Mountain West Tournament since 2018. She guided junior transfer Shalom Prince (5g,1a) to a second-team all-Mountain West selection.   Sanchez, who won four NCAA National Championships as a player at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and has 13 caps with the United States Women's National Team, brings 25 years of coaching experience that spans Division I and Division III. During her standout professional career, Sanchez played at the highest level. She notched 13 caps with the United States Women's National Team and played in the first-ever World Cup qualifying tournament in 1991. Additionally, she played for the WPSL's California Storm and Silicon Valley Red Devils, as well as the WUSA's Boston Breakers (2001-02) and San Jose Cyberrays (2003), before finishing her pro career with the Los Angeles Sol of the WPS in 2009. As a four-year letterwinner at UNC from 1991-94, Sanchez was part of four straight NCAA Division I National Championships and four Atlantic Coast Conference title teams that compiled a 97-1-1 combined record under legendary head coach Anson Dorrance. During her time in Chapel Hill, Sanchez totaled 32 career assists while earning a Soccer News All-American nod (1993), a pair of all-ACC selections (1991, ‘94), three NCAA all-Tournament (1991, ‘92, ‘94) choices and three Academic All-American selections. She also registered the match-winning strikes in consecutive national championship games with goals against Duke (1992) and George Mason (1993).   Sanchez, the winningest head coach in the history of the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women’s soccer program with 148 career victories (2004-17), spent the 2021 season as the women’s soccer coach at Illinois Wesleyan University, leading the Titans to a 9-8-1 overall record and a tie for first place in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin with a 7-1 league mark.   During her 13-year run as head coach at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, Sanchez amassed an overall record of 148-92-30, with a 102-49-15 mark in Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) play. She guided the Athenas to three SCIAC regular-season titles (2007, ‘09, ‘14), five SCIAC Tournament titles (2006, ‘08, ‘09, ‘13, ‘16) and five NCAA Tournament bids, including a NCAA Sweet 16 berth in 2008, while registering National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) final rankings of No. 23 in 2008 and No. 18 in 2009. Individually, she coached athletes at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps that secured 58 All-SCIAC, 34 NSCAA All-Region and 38 NSCAA Scholar All-Region accolades. In addition to her efforts at CMS, Sanchez worked previously as the U.S. Soccer Training Center Coordinator for Southern California-Inland Empire (2013-17), helping to develop technical and tactical female players ages 10-14. She has also spent time as a staff coach for the Team First Soccer Academy (2011-17), working alongside U.S. Soccer legends and former UNC teammates Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly and Tisha Venturini-Hoch. From 2017-21, Sanchez served as an assistant coach at the University of Texas under her former college teammate Angela Kelly. During her time with the Longhorns, UT amassed a 45-22-12 record and earned a national ranking as high as No. 6 in two of the three Division I polls. She was pivotal in the development of 2018 Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year Cyera Hintzen. Sanchez's collegiate coaching career began at the University of Oregon, where she was an assistant coach from 1996-2003. In addition to her soccer achievements as a student-athlete at North Carolina, Sanchez was also a part of three ACC Championship track & field teams (one indoor, two outdoor) and earned all-conference accolades in the 400-meter hurdles. She was inducted into the San Jose Sports Authority Hall of Fame in 2010 and the East Side Union High School District Education Foundation Thomas P. Ryan Hall of Fame in 2012. Sanchez earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education with an emphasis in health and fitness from North Carolina (1995) and a master's in exercise physiology from Oregon (1999). She also holds a United States Soccer Federation (USSF) "B' license, a U.S. Soccer A license, and is a graduate of the NCAA Women's Coaching Academy and the NCAA Women's Coaching Academy 2.0.  

Former Olympic and NCAA Division I head coach and current Colorado College assistant men's and women's swimming coach Jen Buffin was named head coach for both swimming and diving programs on May 14, 2024.   Buffin replaced Anne Goodman James, who retired following the 2023-24 season after 18 years at CC and 48 as an NCAA head coach across all three divisions. To say her first season was successful would be an understatement. Buffin led the men's swimming and diving team to their first-ever Southern Collegiate Athletic Confererence title and CC was named the SCAC Men's Coaching Staff of the Year. Buffin guided the Tigers to seven individual and three relay titles at the SCAC meet and Wyatt Wellehan was named the conference's Diver of the Meet and Diver of the Year. The women's team finished second at the SCAC Championships for the third consecutive year and captured three individual titles, including Emma Krasemann, who won the 3-meter event and was named the league's Diver of the Meet and Diver of the Year.   Buffin joined the Tiger staff in 2022 as an assistant coach and had an immediate impact on the program, helping Kate Brush earn a pair of Division III All-America honors in 2023 and both teams to a second-place finish at the SCAC Championships each season. The Tigers have posted 19 school records since Buffin joined the coaching staff.   Prior to her tenure at CC, Buffin collected extensive international experience, including a stint as the Philippines National Team Coach during the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, as well as the 2015 World Championships and Southeast Asian Games. At the SEA Games in Singapore, she guided the Philippine team to a pair of silver medals, nine bronze medals and eight national records.   Following her tenure with the Philippine National Team, Buffin served as the head coach of the women's swimming team at Oregon State for three seasons. She led the Beavers to a school record in the 50 freestyle and multiple top 16 finishes at the PAC-12 Championships, and coached Felicia Anderson, who qualified for the 2020 USA Olympic Trials.   Prior to joining the Oregon State program, Buffin served as the associate head men's and women's swimming and diving coach at the University of Hawai'i for 10 years. The Rainbow Wahine and Rainbow Warriors captured two conference titles combined during her tenure.   While at Hawai'i, Buffin worked closely with Filipino swimmer Jasmine Alkhaldi, who competed for the Philippines in the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. Alkhaldi set four national records and collected three bronze medals under Buffin's tutelage at the 2015 SEA Games.   Buffin's collegiate record includes 25 NCAA qualifiers, more than 100 conference champions and a two-time Olympian.   Most recently, Buffin was a volunteer assistant coach for the women's swimming and diving program at the Air Force Academy (2020-21) and also coached at New Mexico State (2019-20) and San Jose State (2001-05).   Buffin earned her bachelor's degree in environmental science in 2002 from San Jose State, and a master's in kinesiology with an emphasis in coaching from Georgia Southern University in 2021.   Buffin and her partner, Tim McKenzie, have two dogs, Ella and Lena.  

Dodd enters his second season as the assistant coach of the Colorado College women's soccer program. In his first year, CC won eight games, the most since the 2019 season. The Tigers racked up a home record of 7-1-3, the best win percentage at Stewart since 2014. He helped lead CC to a victory in the City For Champions Cup with a 2-1 victory over AIr Force to end the season.  Dodd came to Colorado Springs with nearly a decade of Division I experience at Houston Christian University (formerly known as Houston Baptist University). He began as the goalkeeper coach in 2014 and was consistently promoted before ultimately taking over as the head coach.   Since 2014, Dodd helped the Huskies accumulate a conference record of 52-43-8. The team won the Southland Conference Tournament and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 2014 and 2016. Before joining HCU as a coach, Dodd trained and rostered with the Houston Dynamo Reserves in 2011. Dodd eventually signed a professional contract to play for FC Korsholm in Finland in 2013, where he was their starting goalkeeper. He graduated from Houston Baptist in 2011 after playing there from 2007-2010. He is the program leader with 21 wins and second with 11 shutouts.

Brouwer enters her second year as the assistant coach of the Colorado College women's soccer team. CC went 8-9-1 in 2024, with eight wins being the most since the 2019 season. The cap on the season was a victory in the City For Champions Cup, capped by a 2-1 defeat of the Air Force Academy. Brouwer came to Colorado Springs before the start of the 2024 season and now has eight years of NCAA Division I coaching experience, having coached numerous current professional players.   A graduate of Middle Tennessee State, Brouwer was a stellar collegiate goalkeeper, earning the 2015 Conference USA Defensive Player of the Year. She helped lead the Blue Raiders to a Sun Belt Conference regular season title in her freshman year and proceeded to start every match for the next three years. As a senior in 2015, Brouwer was named to the All-Conference USA First Team in addition to Defensive Player of the Year accolades after posting a .876 save percentage, second-best in team history, and 113 saves, No. 4 all-time. After graduating in 2016, Brouwer was the starting goalkeeper for Apollon Ladies F.C. in the 2016 UEFA Women's Champions League in Limassol, Cyprus, and also played professionally in the United States for FC Kansas City.    During her time at Purdue, the Boilermakers compiled a 25-34-10 record, including a 15-4-3 season in 2021, during which the team advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament.   She joined the Purdue staff in 2020 after serving as an assistant coach for three years at Tennessee Tech University. Brouwer also had a stint at Drake University as a volunteer coach.

Frankie LaManna enters his second season as an assistant coach for the Colorado College women's soccer program, having joined the team in the middle of the 2024 season. He helped lead CC to eight wins, the most in five years.    Before CC, LaManna was the assistant women's soccer coach for DII CSU Pueblo. LaManna helped lead the Pack to a 7-5-6 record and an appearance in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Tournament in 2023.    Before CSU Pueblo, LaManna was a volunteer coach on J.B. Beltzer's staff at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, for two years. Over his two seasons at UCCS, the program was ranked in the Top 25 nationally in total scoring offense. He was also a part of UCCS' 2021 team, which was the RMAC regular season and Tournament champions and advanced to the Round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament.    He graduated from Robert Morris with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a dual major in Finance and Economics in 2013. He received a Master of Science in Recreation and Sport Science focused on soccer coaching from Ohio in 2017 and is pursuing a PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Liberty University.  

Tarek Farouk was named an assistant coach for the men's and women's swimming teams at Colorado College on Oct. 13, 2025..   Farouk comes to CC from Division II Catawba College, where he served as an assistant coach for the swimming teams during the  2024-25 season.   During his tenure at Catawba, he was the lead coach for the mid-distance racers, including all strokes from 200 to 500. He helped the teams break 30 school records and the men's 800 freestyle relay team qualify for the NCAA Division II Championships for the first time in program history In addition, both teams finished in the top 20 at the DII Championships and were named the most improved teams in the country by SwimCloud.    Prior to Catawba, Farouk worked for three years at the University of Montana, including as a teaching assistant for the integrative physiology and athletic training departments, a strength and conditioning intern and a coach for the Missoula Aquatic Club.   Farouk is a USA Swimming and NCAA certified coach and a certified pool operator.   He swam for four years as an undergraduate at Colorado Mesa, then served as a volunteer assistant coach for the Maverick swimming programs for the 2020-21 season. He received a bachelor's degree in exercise science from Colorado Mesa in 2021 and a master's degree in integrative physiology from the University of Montana in 2024.

Adric Arndt begins his second season as an assistant coach for the Colorado College men’s and women’s swimming teams in 2022-23.   Since 2009, Arndt has been director of student services for several school districts around the country, including Asotin-Anatone (Wash.) and Woodland Park, Jeffco, Harrison and Aspen in Colorado.   An All-America swimmer and Academic All-American at Oakland University (Mich.), Arndt earned bachelor’s degrees in biology from Oakland (1996) and developmental psychology from Eastern Washington (1998). He then received his master’s degree in psychology from Eastern Washington in 2001 and a PhD in educational leadership, research, and policy from UCCS in 2020.