Women's Soccer
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- mrk12@rice.edu
- Phone:
- 348-6955
Kinneman’s impact has helped goalkeeper Bella Killgore make a run on the Rice record book. Having played every minute of the last two seasons, Killgore is second on the career list with 35 wins and 286 saves. She’s third with 18 shutouts and sixth with a 0.99 goals against average. Last year, she became the second goalkeeper to record at least 100 saves (103). She’s a two-time All-Region and All-Conference honoree and was the Conference USA Goalkeeper of the Year in 2020-21.
In her first season working with the Owl goalkeepers, Kinneman’s influence was easy to see. The Rice keeper tandem of Killgore and Maya Hoyer combined to lead Conference USA with total 143 saves. The duo was also third overall in the league in save percentage (.803) and finished with eight shutouts, the program’s fifth-highest single season total in school history.
Prior to Rice Kinneman had served the previous two seasons as an LSU assistant coach, where the Tigers won a SEC Championship and advanced to the second round of the 2018 NCAA Tournament. In 2018 Kinneman coached LSU goalkeeper Caroline Brockmeier to SEC Tournament MVP honors, as well as a pair of new single season school records for saves and shutouts (records which Kinneman previously held).
She has also been on staff at the Dynasty Goalkeeping Camp in Raleigh, North Carolina, since 2011, and coached the goalkeepers with the Catholic High School boys' team in Baton Rouge from 2012-14. Her first full time Division I coaching job was at UNC-Greensboro in 2016, where she tutored Chloe Buehler to all-conference honors as a junior.
Kinneman set a host of school records in a sensational four-year playing career at LSU from 2010-2013. She finished as the Tigers’ all-time record holder for career saves (284) while ranking second on the school’s list for complete game shutouts (17) and third in goalkeeper wins (24). Her success on the field was only part of the story as she was a two-time selection to the SEC Academic Honor Roll, a SEC All-Freshman Team honoree, and member of the SEC Community Service Team.
As a native of nearby Missouri City, Texas, Kinneman has a long familiarity with club and high school teams throughout the greater Houston area. After graduating from LSU with a degree in sport administration and a concentration in sport commerce with a minor in business, Kinneman played professionally for two seasons for the Houston Dash in the National Women's Soccer League and Arna Bjornar FC in the Norwegian first division in 2014 and 2015.
