Jan. 9, 2007

COLUMBIA, Missouri - Former University of Minnesota All-Big Ten Conference standout Molly Schneider has been hired as an assistant coach of the Missouri soccer program, Head Coach Bryan Blitz has announced. A former goalie, Schneider will serve as the goalkeeper's coach with the Tigers.

"We're so excited to have Molly join the Mizzou program," said Blitz. "She brings Big Ten Conference goaltending experience to Missouri and will make an immediate impact on our goalkeepers."

Schneider comes to the Tigers from Minnesota, where she spent one season as a student assistant. With the Golden Gophers, she worked with the goalkeepers, helped plan training sessions and organized team travel, among other duties.

In addition to her collegiate coaching experience, Schneider has served as coach for the Minnesota Olympic Development Program (ODP) and the Region II ODP, as well as to Minnesota residential and goalkeeping camps and camps by the Minnesota Lightning and Chicago Cobras of the W-League. She holds a Unites States Soccer Federation D License and earned a National Soccer Coaches Association of America Goalkeeper I Diploma.

Schneider spent the 2004 and 2005 seasons at Minnesota, where she was named All-Big Ten first team and the Soccer Buzz All-Great Lakes Region second team as the team's goalkeeper in her senior season. She spent her first two seasons at Wisconsin-Milwaukee and earned All-Horizon League first and freshman team honors in 2002.

She also played for Minnesota Lighting in the summer of 2006 and the Chicago Cobras in 2003 and 2004.

A native of Rochester, Minn., she earned a bachelor's degree in kinesiology with an emphasis in exercise science from Minnesota.