Klapper enters her eighth season at UWSP in 2025. She was named permanent head coach of the UWSP volleyball program on Dec. 19, 2018. She holds a career record of 141-64 (.688).
Klapper led the Pointers the fourth-consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance in 2024. It was her fifth-straight 20-win season at the helm. Senior Ashley Kopp earned AVCA All-America honors for the fourth-straight season, the first player in WIAC history to do so. She was the WIAC Offensive Player of the Year and set the school record for career kills and tied for career service aces.
In 2023, Klapper led her team back to the NCAA Tournament for a third consecutive year, winning the opening round against Case Western Reserve. She led the team to a 23-11 record and a WIAC Tournament appearance. Kopp snagged her third-straight AVCA All-America team honor under Klapper's direction. Kopp also led the country in total points and kills in 2023.
In 2022, Kooi led her team to a return to the NCAA Tournament, winning the opening round match against No. 21 Coe. She posted a 26-8 record and reached the WIAC Tournament title match. Kopp was named to her second-straight AVCA All-America team under Kooi's leadership. Kopp led the country in total attacks and points and was one of four All-WIAC selections in 2022.
In 2021 under Kooi, the Pointers received a bid to the NCAA Tournament after a 26-7 season, including three wins against ranked opponents. The team spent seven weeks ranked in the AVCA DIII Coaches Poll, with their peak being at 19 in week four. Kooi coached AVCA All-American Honorable Mention, AVCA Region 8 Freshman of the Year, AVCA All-Region 8 First Team, WIAC Newcomer of the Year and All-WIAC first-team player Kopp. Kopp led the nation in kills in the 2021 season with 501, just the fourth player in program history to reach 500 kills in a season.
The American Volleyball Coaches Association bestowed the prestigious Thirty Under 30 award upon Kooi in May 2020.
In 2019, Kooi guided the Pointers to the third WIAC Tournament title in program history. Kooi led the Pointers to the NCAA Regional Final and an overall record of 28-9, including four wins over ranked opponents. With Kooi at the helm, April Gehl dominated the 2019 season with the most kills in the nation (675) and most attacks in the country (1,853). Gehl broke her own single-season kills record and became the all-time leader in program history with 1,900 career kills. Gehl was named a first-team All-American, AVCA Midwest Player of the Year and WIAC Offensive Player of the Year.
Kooi spent the 2018 season as interim head coach after returning to UWSP where she was an assistant in 2015 and 2016. In 2018, she led the Pointers to an 18-16 record. She mentored AVCA All-American and All-WIAC first team selection April Gehl. Under Kooi’s tutelage, Gehl led the country in total attacks and was second in the nation with 582 kills, a school record.
She was an assistant coach at Millikin for the 2017 season, helping the Big Blue to a CCIW regular season conference championship and a No. 12 ranking at the end of the year. Three Millikin players earned AVCA All-America honors in her one season on staff.
In her time with the Pointers as an assistant, Kooi helped UWSP to a 54-16 record. In her two seasons in Stevens Point, she coached seven all-conference Pointers, including WIAC Defensive Player of the Year Bri Piepenbrok in 2016.
Prior to coming to UWSP, Kooi was the varsity girl's assistant coach at Rochelle Township High School where she also served as a physical education teacher, and assistant girls track coach.
Kooi was a four-year starter for the Hawks of Quincy University in Quincy, Ill., from 2009-12. She was a two-time team captain and ran the Hawks offense from the setter position. In 2011, Kooi helped lead the Hawks to a berth in the GLVC Tournament for the first time in eight years
Kooi finished her career ranked fourth all-time on the Hawks assists list, amassing 3,191 assists. She graduated Summa cum Laude from Quincy and was a four-time Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) Academic All-Conference honoree and was the recipient of the All-Sports GLVC Sportsmanship Award 2011-2012.
A native of Minooka, Ill., Kooi went on to earn her bachelor's degree in education with an emphasis in physical education from Quincy in 2013 before her role at Rochelle Township High School. In 2017, Kooi earned her master's degree in health education from Northern Illinois University.
