WOMEN'S SOCCER

Head Coach Sheila Miech

Just when it seems like Sheila Miech cant experience any more success, her teams get better and better. The only coach in UW-Stevens Point history enters her 20th season in 2006 with a 273-90-24 overall record.

Ranking sixth on the all-time NCAA Division III wins list, Miech was just the second female coach in any division of NCAA womens soccer to reach 200 career victories.

Miech's best success has come in Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play where she has lost just four regular season matches in the 14-year history of the league. She owns a staggering 95-4-6 career record in regular season conference matches, having won 12 conference championships. Miech guided the Pointers through the longest conference winning streak in NCAA history with 70 straight WIAC wins from 1997 to 2003.

Her WIAC tournament resume is just as impressive, sporting a 34-2 all-time record with 12 conference tournament titles in the 14-year history of the event. The Pointers have made 11 NCAA tournament appearances and were the only WIAC school ever to qualify for the postseason prior to 2005.

A 1978 UW-Stevens Point graduate, Miech earned the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year for the sixth time in the 14-year history of the league in 2004. In 2000, she was the Division III Central Region Coach of the Year for the third time in her career as the Pointers qualified for the Division III final four.

A standout athlete at UW-Stevens Point during her undergraduate days, she earned Female Athlete of the Year honors as a senior. Continuing her association with UW-Stevens Point following graduation, she has been an instructor in the Department of Health, Exercise Sciences and Athletics (HESA), earning various awards for her teaching.

Miech is a native of Wausau and a graduate of Wausau West High School. She and her husband, John, who is the winningest football coach in UW-Stevens Point history, have two sons, Jesse and Ryan, and reside in Park Ridge.

You can reach Coach Miech at smiech@uwsp.edu

Assistant Coach Derek Bell

Bringing extensive head coaching experience to the coaching staff, Derek Bell joins the Pointers after six successful seasons as the boys’ coach at Stevens Point Area Senior High School.

Bell led the Panthers to two Wisconsin Valley Conference titles and a sectional final appearance in his final season in 2006. He also worked four seasons as an assistant with Stevens Point’s girls’ soccer team, including the Panthers’ state tournament squad in 2002.

Prior to coming to Stevens Point, he coached with the Norman Celtic and Moore Milan select clubs in Oklahoma for three seasons. In Stevens Point, he runs player development programs for local soccer players and coaches several youth club teams. Bell holds an advanced national diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

Bell is on the Wisconsin Olympic Development program coaching staff, primarily leading Central Wisconsin district trainings and attending regional camps as a state staff coach. He coached the North squad in the 2005 Wisconsin Soccer Coaches Association Masonic Foundation senior all-star game and serves on the WSCA’s board.

Bell played four seasons at Knox College (Ill.) and was an all-conference selection as a senior. He works full-time as the administrative team leader for the National Wellness Institute.

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