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Kim Whisenant enters her seventh season as a Wyoming soccer assistant coach. She returned to Wyoming in 2004 for a second tenure as assistant coach, as she was also a coach at UW during the 1999 and 2000 seasons. In her first season back with the Cowgirls, she helped guide UW to the second best finish in school history as they finished with a record of 9-7-4 and placed a record four players on the Mountain West Conference first and second teams. In her second season, the Cowgirls finished 9-7-3, the best winning percentage in school history, and placed two players on the MWC All-Conference teams. In 2006 she helped lead the Cowgirls to a 7-9-3 record. Whisenant spent the 2001 and 2002 seasons as an assistant coach at Tulane University. While with Tulane, she helped guide the Green Wave to their first winning season in six years as they went 9-8 in 2001. Before initially joining the Cowgirl staff in 1999, Whisenant served as a graduate assistant coach at East Tennessee State University, under former UW head coach Anne Moore, during the 1997 and 1998 seasons. Whisenant played four seasons at North Carolina State where she helped lead the Wolfpack to three NCAA tournament appearances. During her senior season, North Carolina State reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament and was at one time ranked as high as sixth nationally. Following college, she played in the U.S.W.I.S.L for the Baltimore Lady Bays, the Maryland Pride and the Fort Collins Force. Whisenant earned her bachelor's degree in communication from North Carolina State in 1996. She holds a Premier Diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association and an USSF "A" license from the United States Soccer Federation. The former Kim Murphy is married to UW Senior Associate Athletics Director Matt Whisenant. The couple has a son, Landon Thomas (5), and daughter Chloe Ann (3). |
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