A soccer icon in Southwestern Ohio, Miami University head coach Bobby Kramig enters his 25th season as the mentor of Miami soccer and 11th year at the helm of a women's program that has experienced dramatic success under his guidance.

Over the past ten seasons, Kramig has taken an infant women's soccer program and developed it into one of the premier programs in the Great Lakes Region. Kramig has posted a solid 100-69-11 (.586) mark since the start of the women's program in 1997, including a stunning 64-21-4 (.742) record over a four-year stretch from 1999-2002 that included four consecutive MAC Championship match appearances, three MAC Tournament titles, back-to-back appearances in the second round of the NCAA Tournament and a MAC regular-season championship.

After a one-year absence from the MAC Tournament in 2003, Kramig has guided Miami to the league's postseason tournament in each of the past two seasons, including a semifinal appearance in 2005. Following a first-round exit in 2004, Miami rebounded to finish the 2005 campaign with nine wins, including a 1-0 win over then-No. 17 Michigan, Miami's first win over a nationally-ranked opponent since 2001.

In 2002, Kramig directed the most impressive season in MAC women's soccer history, as his squad posted MAC and Miami records for overall (19) and league (11) wins. The season also included the first regular-season MAC Championship in program history. Kramig's RedHawks advanced to their third straight NCAA Tournament, knocking off Michigan State in the first round to advance to the second round for the second straight season.

In 2001, Kramig guided the Red and White to the MAC's first NCAA Tournament win, stunning nationally-ranked West Virginia, 1-0, in what was arguably the biggest first-round upset of the 2001 NCAA Tournament. The RedHawks concluded the season as the first MAC team to receive votes in a final NSCAA Top 25 poll.

Miami made its inaugural NCAA Tournament appearance in 2000 after clinching the program's first MAC Tournament Championship with a 1-0 double-overtime defeat of Bowling Green. The Red and White fell just short in its NCAA Tournament debut, tumbling 4-3 in double-overtime to Big Ten power Michigan.

The pivotal season for Kramig's Miami women's soccer program came in 1999, when the Red and White posted the biggest single-season turnaround in the nation. After posting just 12 wins in its first two seasons as a varsity program, the RedHawks won 14 of their first 16 matches on the way to a then program- record 17 wins and their first MAC Championship match, which was decided by penalty kicks in favor of Eastern Michigan after 150 minutes.

Over the past six seasons, Kramig's players also have raked in an impressive array of individual honors at the conference, state, regional and national levels. During the 2005 season, Miami placed two athletes, Lindsay Dunmead and Kathleen Vistica, on the all-MAC first team, while Dunmead also earned second-team all-region honors as a defender.

Prior to last season, Miami produced four consecutive MAC Players of the Year, with Ashley Swinehart as the most recent honoree. Swinehart won the award in back-to-back seasons (2003 and 2004), becoming the first player in conference history to win the honor twice in her career, while former RedHawks Andrea Cunningham and Danielle Berkemeier took home the award in 2001 and 2002, respectively. Over the past six seasons, the Red and White has accounted for 25 all-MAC selections. Miami also has placed 18 players on the NSCAA All-Great Lakes region team since 1999.

At the national level, Cunningham was recognized as an NSCAA first-team all-American in 2000, while Berkemeier was honored as a 1999 freshman all-American by Soccer Buzz and a third-team all-American by the NSCAA in 2002. Shaedyn Cousino was honored as a third-team NSCAA Scholar all-America selection following the 2001 campaign. Most recently, Swinehart was honored as a second-team CoSIDA Academic All-American in 2003 before ascending to the first team in 2004.

Kramig came to Miami in 1983 to take over a men's soccer program that was being reinstated after a one-year absence. In 16 years with the now-defunct program, Kramig amassed a 138-143-21 (.492) record that included three conference titles and was named league coach of the year two times.

He guided the program until 1998, coaching both the men's and women's varsity programs for two seasons. In all, Kramig's men's program produced 47 all-Ohio selections, 33 all-conference honorees and 23 all-region selections.

A native of Cincinnati, Kramig was an all-city goalkeeper at Wyoming High School and went on to play collegiately at Florida Southern, where he was twice named team MVP and earned all-state honors as a senior.

In the fall of 1982, Kramig accepted his first full-time coaching position, serving as head women's and assistant men's coach at Morehead State. He directed the women's program to a 13-3 mark and the Kentucky Intercollegiate Soccer Association Championship, while earning Kentucky Coach of the Year accolades.

Avidly involved in the soccer community, Kramig is responsible for starting the "M" League, a youth soccer program in the Oxford community that incorporates his student-athletes as coaches. Over a dozen of Kramig's former women's soccer players are still active in soccer coaching after making their coaching debuts with the "M" League.

Kramig also initiated the Miami Spring Classic, an annual tournament which brings in more than 200 youth soccer teams every spring.

A past president of the Ohio Collegiate Soccer Coaches Association, Kramig holds an NSCAA Advanced National Coaching Diploma and a USSF "A" coaching license. Kramig has served as a member of the MAC Soccer Advisory Committee and chairman of the McGuffey Foundation School Board of Trustees.

Kramig and his wife, Karen, have two children, son Rob (18) and daughter Anna (11).