Kristina Stolpovskaya - Soccer Coach - Troy University Athletics

Kristina Stolpovskaya

Title:
Graduate Assistant
Email:
kstolpovskaya@troy.edu
Phone:
5653

Kristina Stolpovskaya begins her second season with Troy University soccer as a graduate assistant. Stolpovskaya hails from Almaty, Kazakhstan, and has an impressive playing background, which includes a professional career that started when she was just 17 years old.

Stolpovskaya has participated in World Cup and European Cup qualifying competitions with the Kazakhstan Women’s National team and has been a significant member of her National team since 2004. Prior to that Stolpovskaya was the team captain for the Under 19 Kazakhstan Women’s National team and participated in the Under 19 World Cup qualifiers in Israel in 2003.

Stolpovskaya has played professional soccer for various clubs in her native Kazakhstan, including Alma-KTZH FC and SCHWSM-Kairat, where she had the opportunity to play in the prestigious UEFA Women’s Champions League, playing against such teams as Arsenal FC, England, Umea IK FC, Sweden and FCR Duisburg, Germany.

In all, Coach Stolpovskaya has won seven National Championship League titles during her playing career and earned a Bachelor’s Degree as a Physical Education Teacher and Soccer Coach from the Academy of Sport and Tourism, Almaty, Kazakhstan. She is currently pursing her master's degree in sports and fitness management.