Central College Athletics

Kate Jones was named the assistant women's soccer coach at Central College in 2025.

In her first season at Central, the Dutch were 10-5-3 overall and 3-3-2 in the American Rivers Conference. Central advanced to the A-R-C semifinals and had two players receive United Soccer Coaches All-Region status. She worked with the midfielders and forwards and saw 11 different players contribute to the scoring during the season, including all-region and all-conference forward Piper Eighmy.

Jones came to Pella after spending the 2023 and 2024 seasons as an assistant coach at Lincoln Memorial University (Tenn.). The Division II Railsplitters finished 10-5-3 and advanced to the 2024 South Atlantic Conference tournament championship match. The program was 18-12-6 during her tenure while having seven conference offensive or defensive player of the week accolades.
           
Prior to that, she was the Director of Player Analysis/Soccer Operations at Division I Xavier University (Ohio). The Musketeers were 30-7-6 in her two seasons.
           
She is a USSF Licensed Coach and has several United Soccer Coaches diplomas, including Goalkeeping Level 1.

Additionally, she was the head coach of the Cincinnati United Soccer Club from August of 2021 to May of 2023. After an injury ended her own career, she was a volunteer student assistant coach at Division III Westminster College (Pa.) for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 academic years.
 

Coaching achievements

Central College

• Team had 10-5-3 (.639) record in her first season
• (2) United Soccer Coaches All-Region honorees
• (1) All-conference performer
• (4) conference players of the week
• (1) A-R-C tournament semifinalists - 2025
• 2025 team reached program high #81 NPI ranking
• (6) College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honorees
• (2) United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-Region honorees
• (15) Academic American Rivers All-Conference selections

Lincoln Memorial University

• Team had 18-12-6 (.583) record in her two seasons
• (6) All-conference performers
• (3) All-tournament players
• (7) conference players of the week
• (2) SAC tournament appearances
• (1) SAC tournament finalists - 2024
• #8 ranking in the Southeast Region (United Soccer Coaches - NCAA Division II) - 2024

Xavier University (Ohio)

• Team had 30-7-6 (.805) record in her two seasons
• (2) appearances in the NCAA Division I tournament
• (1) Big East tournament final appearances - 2022
• (2) Big East tournament semifinal appearances - 2021, 2022
• (1) Big East regular season title - 2021
• (1) Big East Coaching Staff of the Year - 2021
• (1) Program best ranking of #11 (United Soccer Coaches) & #7 (RPI) - 2021
• Unbeaten in Big East for first time in program history - 2022

Westminster College (Pa.)

• Team had 18-7-5 (.683) record in her two seasons
• (2) PAC tournament semifinal appeaances - 2019, 2020/21

Athletics career

Westminster College (Pa.)

• Played two seasons before an injury ended her collegiate career