Hall of Fame
Jocelyn Keller served as Earlham’s head women’s soccer coach from 2008 to 2011, the most successful four-year span in program history, while leading the program in the transition from the North Coast Athletic Conference into the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference.
Under Keller’s leadership, Earlham women’s soccer closed out its NCAC era in 2009 with a 12-7-1 record and an appearance in the NCAC Tournament championship match. Four players received conference post-season recognition, including NCAC Newcomer of the Year Joy Doucette.
Keller led the Quakers to the HCAC regular season championship in 2010, Earlham’s inaugural campaign in the Heartland Conference, as well as an appearance in the HCAC Tournament championship game. Earlham finished the season with a 14-6-1 record, setting a still-standing program record for victories in a season, and Keller was recognized as the HCAC Women’s Soccer Coach of the Year. She is one of only eight Earlham head coaches to earn HCAC coach of the year honors. Eight Earlham women’s soccer players received post-season conference honors, including Offensive MVP and 2019 Earlham Athletics Hall of Fame inductee Karman Duchon. Under Keller’s tutelage, Duchon also earned NSCAA All-Region honors in 2008.
More success followed in 2011, when Earlham women’s soccer repeated as the HCAC regular season champions and advanced into the HCAC Tournament. Seven players received All-HCAC recognition with Ikumi Doucette earning Offensive MVP honors, marking the second straight season an Earlham women’s soccer player had earned the conference offensive MVP award. A third Keller-recruited Earlham women’s soccer player would capture the accolade in 2012 as Joy Doucette was tabbed for HCAC Offensive MVP honors.
Earlham women’s soccer recorded a 49-25-3 overall record in four seasons under Keller’s tutelage, reaching conference post-season play in three of the four years.
Keller, a 2004 DePauw University graduate, began her coaching career as an assistant at Earlham under Jim Watts (2001-07) and went on to coach at Williams College and Washington & Lee University before returning to Earlham in 2008. She proceeded to coach at Carleton College in Minnesota for eight seasons and completed her graduate degree in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota. Keller currently serves as the head girls soccer coach at The Blake School in Minneapolis and has a private practice as a licensed therapist in the Twin Cities. She resides in southwest Minneapolis with her husband, Ethan Johnson, and their daughter, Ilse, with a second daughter expected in September 2021.
