# @michigandaily on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2023-11-01T19:20:12.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Michigan Daily (@michigandaily) — https://gondola.cc/michigandaily

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When Jen Klein came to Ann Arbor, she was picking up the pieces of a broken program that hadn’t seen a Big Ten Tournament title since the last century.

Three years into her now six-year tenure, she put those pieces back into place.

The 2021 season was a big one for the Michigan women’s soccer team with its first Big Ten Tournament win since 1999, a trip to the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals and tying the school single-season wins record by going 18-4-3 overall.

Those crowning accolades of Klein’s revamped program are nothing short of impressive after her start just three years prior in 2018. Klein was deservingly praised for turning around and overhauling the Wolverines. But if you ask her how those trophies got there, her emphasis would be on her coaching staff and the players on her squad.

Because for Klein, the emphasis is always on others.

It’s on her coaches and players. Yes, her job as a Big Ten coach is to create a winning program. But she’s in the business of empowering and teaching others.

While her role as a Big Ten coach brings massive amounts of pressure, Klein never lets that slide onto her staff. She carries the load with grace, patience, tenacity and humor.

“She has that pressure but she handles it well,” Michigan strength and conditioning coach Kate Smith told The Michigan Daily. “And she respects all the staff that she works with, which makes things flow very well.”

As an assistant coach, Klein won a national championship at her last stomping grounds, USC, at the end of a historic run. Prior to raising that trophy, she spent seven seasons combined at Washington State and UNLV, which included two years at the helm of the Rebels in Vegas. Clearly, Klein came to Ann Arbor with a resume fit to advance the Wolverines’ program.

But if you ask Klein, she’s no expert.

“I’m not an expert, really, in anything, but finding those experts and bringing them in and utilizing their knowledge, their expertise to help us be the best that we can be,” Klein told The Daily.

To read the feature story in its entirety, click the link in our bio.

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| The Michigan Daily | @michigandaily | https://gondola.cc/michigandaily | Newspaper |
| Grace Beal | @gracebeal27 | https://gondola.cc/gracebeal27 | Photographer |

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