Kelly Bryan enters her 21st season at the helm of the Kenyon women's soccer program with an impressive string of accomplishments, including claiming the 2022 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) regular season championship with a 5-1-1 mark in league play. That was the program's fourth overall NCAC championship and all four were claimed with Bryan steering the ship.

Heading into the 2023 season, Bryan owns a 164-149-31 Kenyon coaching record and an overall career coaching record of 220-188-43.

Prior to taking the NCAC title last season, Bryan's 2017 squad was the last Kenyon team to win the conference. That team went 7-0-1 in conference play, marking the first time since joining the league in 1984 that a Kenyon women's team went undefeated. At the end of that season, Bryan earned her third career NCAC Coach of the Year award.

In 2014, Kenyon won a share of the NCAC regular season title before winning the conference's tournament title for the first time in program history. Toward the end of that remarkable season, the program won 9 of 10 matches, including upsetting Allegheny College in the NCAC Tournament final and then No. 21-ranked Emory University in the first round of the NCAA Division III Tournament. Bryan earned conference, state and region Coach of the Year honors in the process.

Since that 2014 campaign, Bryan's teams have all placed top-four in the conference standings and made eight straight appearances in the NCAC Tournament. 

Early in her Kenyon career, Bryan and her 2006 team had one of the most successful seasons in program history. The squad matched a program-best total for wins in a single season, earned the program's first-ever NCAC championship and defeated Capital University in the first round of the NCAA Division III tournament. The tournament win was Kenyon's first-ever on the national stage. For her efforts, Bryan was named the NCAC Coach of the Year.

No stranger to campus, Bryan worked as an assistant coach at Kenyon during the 1998 season, serving under former head coach Scott Thielke. In 1999, she moved on to accept the head coaching position at North Carolina Wesleyan College, her alma mater. She coached at NCWC for four seasons and accumulated a 56-24-7 record, three conference championships and three NCAA tournament appearances. She was also named the USA South Athletic Conference (formerly the Dixie Intercollegiate Conference) Coach of the Year in 1999 and 2000. In her first season at Wesleyan, Bryan guided the Battling Bishops to a 17-2-4 record while winning the Dixie Conference and NCAA Southeast Regional championship. The Bishops also journeyed all the way to the NCAA tournament quarterfinals.

Back in 1997, Bryan began her coaching career at the University of South Alabama, where she served as the second assistant coach for the Division I program. She spent one season there before moving to Kenyon as an assistant in 1998-99. She also owns coaching experience with the USA Athletes International organization (Australia in 2003 and 2005, and Aruba in 2004), as a staff coach for the North Carolina ODP East team, and as coach of the Mount Vernon Soccer Association club team. She currently holds an NSCAA Advanced National Coaching Diploma.

During her playing days at NCWC, Bryan was a four-year starter and two-time team captain who made it to three NCAA tournaments. In 1994, she was part of the team that made it to the NCAA Final Four. She was named team Most Valuable Player in 1996, as well as NCWC's 'Outstanding Female Athlete of the Year' in 1996-97.

After graduating from NCWC with a bachelor's degree in psychology, Bryan earned her master's degree in exercise technology at the University of South Alabama. In 2011, she was certified as a NSCA Strength & Conditioning Specialist. A native of Dublin, Ohio, Bryan lives with her husband, Chase, and two children in nearby Heath, Ohio.

In addition to her coaching duties, Bryan serves as an Assistant Director of Athletics and previoulsy served as the Athletics Department's Senior Woman Administrator for a couple of years.