Varsity Boys Soccer - 2018
Biography:
Andrew Rice enters his first season as head coach of the Portage Central High School Mustangs. Rice is also an alumni of Portage Central. After graduating from Portage Central, Rice began developing his coaching skills by coaching for the Portage Soccer Club. He coached for four years with Portage Soccer Club before taking the assistant coaching with the Portage Central High School Women’s Soccer Program. He worked as the assistant Women's coach with the Mustangs from 2008 through 2014 winning a girls state title, 4 final 4 appearances, 5 Conference, 6 District and 4 Regional championships with the Mustangs.
As a player at Portage Central, Rice was a stand out player. In his Junior and Senior high school years Rice captained the Mustangs and played side by side with the likes of MLS superstar Eric Alexander. In his junior year Rice was recognized as he was selected to the All Conference 1st Team, All District Team and Allstate Honorable mention.
Werner Magg.
Assistant Coach
Biography:
In 2014 Coach Magg coached with Kingdom under Plainwell head coach David Groves. What many people don’t realize is Coach Magg came over to the US from Germany in 1998.
He has coached at Plainwell High School where he helped lead the program to a 38-16-5 record, a conference championship, a district championship, and a trip to the state quarterfinals. In a tough Wolverine conference he helped lead them to an impressive 17-4-1 overall record.
While has also coached at Kalamazoo Central having help coach the girls program in 2012. On the boys side Coach Magg helped lead the boys program to its highest win total in over a decade in 2011 and again in 2013. They made the conference playoffs three straight years starting in 2011 and finishing runner-up in the league and conference tournament in 2013. He helped bring the program to their first appearance in a championship game since 2001. Overall they held a 38-24-3 record
Biography:
Will Rungaitis enters his first season as JV head coach of the Portage Central High School Mustangs. He comes to us after working as JV head coach for Gull Lake in 2014.
Like Rice, Rungaitis is also an alumni of Portage Central where he played varsity soccer for the Mustangs his Junior and Senior year. After graduating from Portage Central, Rungaitis began working with Kingdom in 2012 doing year round training and coaching. Since this time he has coached the boys program for the U8 Academy, U9 and U10 select teams. This summer he will be coaching Kingdoms U10 Super-Y team.