Quinn Ross, the 2003 Horizon League Coach of the Year, begins his 12th campaign on the sidelines for the Green Bay women's soccer team.

Ross' goal in 2007 is to not only keep his squad in the top half of the Horizon League, but advance Green Bay to an elusive league title.

The Phoenix mentor is looking to build on his team's success from last fall, when Green Bay went 8-7-2 to post its first winning season since 1993. Along the way the Phoenix was an impressive 7-1-1 at Santaga Stadium to improve the squad's record at its home field to 11-5-1 in the past two years.

Twice in the past four seasons Ross and the Phoenix have made their mark in the league by finishing in the top three in the standings, including the team's third-place finish in 2005. During the 2003 and 2005 campaigns, Green Bay posted identical 9-9-1 marks.

Also during that time, Ross mentored Green Bay's first All-Americans in women's soccer in Sarah Oligney (NSCAA Scholar All-America, 2nd team) and Stephanie Gross (CoSIDA Academic All-America, 1st team). Under Ross' guidance, Oligney was also a two-time Horizon League player of the year while Gross went on to become the first Green Bay student-athlete to earn a prestigious NCAA postgraduate scholarship.

The longest tenured and winningest coach in the history of Green Bay women's soccer, Ross has instilled in his program the importance of being well-rounded student-athletes. Not only does his squad continue to have success in the classroom, as shown with the team's back-to-back NSCAA academic awards the past two years, but the women's soccer team has had an impact in the Green Bay community. In the summer of 2006, Ross' Phoenix earned the Brian Ziegelbauer Memorial Youth Volunteer of the Year award by the Northeastern Area of Special Olympics Wisconsin.

Ross started his collegiate head coaching career off with a 9-9-2 mark during the 1996 campaign. The team opened with four straight wins, good for the second-best start in the history of the program. For his career, Ross owns a 65-125-13 record.

Ross was an assistant for the Green Bay men's program for four years before taking the women's head coaching position. The seventh head coach in 20 years of women's soccer at Green Bay, Ross arrived in 1992 from Northeast Missouri State University. A two-time All-American at NMSU, Ross also assisted in coaching the Bulldogs in 1991.

Ross has recently served as the Wisconsin Olympic Development Program district girls coach for the U-14 level. He also works as the Green Bay camp director during the summer.

A starting defender for the 1997 A-League champion Milwaukee Rampage, Ross has also played professionally for Lyngby Football Club of Denmark and for the Portland (Ore.) Timbers.

Ross, 40, earned his degree in administration from NMSU (now Truman State University) in 1990 and earned his USSF `A' coaching license in January 2001. He resides in Green Bay with his wife, Stacy, and their five children: Gunnar, Charly, Kai, Janna and Claudia.