As a soccer coach, Kelly Raddar brings a lot of knowledge, experiences, energy and passion for the sport of soccer, and for the student athletes.
His coaching experiences spans over 18 years in the academic setting and over 14 years of successful and progressive coaching at the youth levels, ODP level (Olympic Development Program), high school and collegiate levels, for a total of well over 22 years of combined soccer coaching experience.
He has also served as the Director of Coaching and operated several soccer camps and clinics across the US working with, and preparing advanced and elite soccer prospects for ODP, collegiate level play and simply just improving & developing their game at any age.
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Along the way, Raddar has garnered several accolades and made successful runs at winning three College Showcase Championships, a pair of conference championships and two state finalists and had the opportunity to produce 68 All-Academic, 37 All-Conference, 29 All-Region, 24 All-Star, and 3 All-Americans in college teams that he has coached.
Most recently, he led the PPU women’s soccer team to two back-to-back playoff berths, winning the conference regular season championship in 2022 and runners-up in 2023, with one win away to making it to nationals.
He’s also led the PCC women’s soccer team to back-to-back playoff berths in 2018 and 2019, making the Elite 8 in 2019 and helped the Northern Michigan University women’s soccer team qualify for the GLIAC championships playoffs in 2017, and have led the TVC Women’s soccer program to back-to-back winning seasons in 2014 and 2015, earning a spot both years in the NWAC Championship playoffs.
He’s also led the TVC men’s soccer program to a winning season with only one point away from making the NWAC Championship playoffs in his first year with the team in 2015.
Raddar holds several USSF & NSCAA licenses.
