Camp Staff

Head coach Bobby Kramig, in his 28th year at Miami, has compiled seven times as many wins as any other Miami soccer coach. Winner of numerous Mid-America Conference championships, Kramig was named MAC Coach of the Year in 1986, 1990, 1993 and 1994. He has produced eight Mid-American Conference MVPs and five Academic All-Americans.

As Director of Soccer Operations at Miami, Kramig has served as both the Head Women’s and Head Men’s Soccer Coach. He has also overseen the development and operation of the Miami University Youth Soccer Association (M-League) and the Miami University Spring Soccer Classic. Kramig has served as the Director of Miami Soccer Camps since 1983.

Kamig holds an Advanced National Coaching Diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, as well as a USSF “A” License. He is a former President of the Ohio Collegiate Soccer Association and member of the Mid-America Conference Soccer Executive Committee.

Kramig is assisted at the camp by his three assistant coaches and various collegiate coaches and players.

Gary Grant enters his second season as an assistant coach for the RedHawks after joining the program in July of 2009. He brings 18 years of coaching experience at the club, high school and collegiate levels to the Miami soccer staff and helped guide the ‘Hawks to the Mid-American Conference Tournament title game in his first year back in Oxford.

“We’re very excited to have Gary back in the program,” head coach Bobby Kramig said. “He served as our graduate assistant on our (men’s) 1994 championship team. He brings a tremendous amount of experience and a great wealth of soccer knowledge to our program. He has a wonderful perspective on intercollegiate athletics and we’re very happy to have him back.”

Since 1993, Grant has coached both boys and girls club soccer teams in Texas, Oregon and Ohio, including the Cincinnati Classics Soccer Club. He has directed his teams to tournament championships in Oregon, Washington and Nevada, while also conducting youth soccer camps with players from the Dallas Sidekicks, a former franchise in the Major Indoor Soccer League.

In addition to coaching club teams, Grant has coached both boys and girls at the high school level since 1997. While teaching high school mathematics, he has coached at four high schools in Texas and Oregon, including his most-recent post at Sunset High School in Portland where he was the boys varsity soccer coach. Along with coaching, Grant has helped fundraising efforts, community involvement and student-athlete participation in community service.

Grant served as Miami’s graduate assistant for men’s soccer from 1992-94 under the direction of Kramig, while earning his master’s degree at Miami in sports studies (sports psychology concentration). As a grad assistant, he worked with the team on and off the field, some of which included helping individuals establish goals and achieve them.

“The job’s a bit of shock to me because I didn’t anticipate coming back to coach 15 years after I got my master’s degree,” Grant said upon his hire, “but having come back, it brought back a lot of fond memories and I’m really looking forward to the challenge.”

A native of Seattle, Grant earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Portland State University in 1992 and has taught high school math for the last 14 years. He is a member of the U.S. Soccer Federation and the National Soccer Coaches Association of America and has his B License and National Coaching Diploma from those respective organizations.

Joining the Miami University women’s soccer program in April 2009, Miami alumnus Nate Lie (pronounced LEE) enters his second season as an assistant coach with the RedHawks, serving as the recruiting coordinator among other duties. In his first year on the sidelines, he helped lead Miami to the MAC Tournament championship game.

“We are thrilled to have Nate Lie rejoining the Miami soccer family,” head coach Bobby Kramig said upon Lie’s hire. “When Nate played for the RedHawks he was always our coach on the field, and I am confident that he will do an excellent job.”

While at Miami from 1996-2000, Lie was a two-time Academic All-MAC selection for the Miami men’s soccer program, earning First-Team Academic All-MAC honors in 1998 in addition to Academic All-Ohio accolades that same season. In 1997, Lie earned Second-Team All-MAC honors.

Lie graduated from Miami in 2000 with degrees in economics and finance.

Erik Lewis enters his first year on the staff of Miami’s women’s soccer team, after joining the program in the summer of 2010. He will serve as the RedHawks’ goalkeepers coach.

A native of Middletown, Ohio, Lewis is a 1991 graduate of Middletown High School, who brings over 12 years of playing experience and 10 years of coaching experience to the RedHawks’ program. For the last three years, he has worked for the Ohio South Youth Soccer Association, coaching in their Olympic Development Program, serving as a goalkeepers coach since 2008.

Lewis has coached several select and club teams throughout his career, mostly in and around the Dayton area. He has also worked with Miamisburg High School’s women’s soccer team since 2006 as a goalkeeper coach and helped with Valley View High School’s women’s team since 2007.

Before moving back to Ohio in 2006, Lewis lived in Idaho while earning his bachelor’s degree from the University of Idaho, where he also helped train goalkeepers for Idaho’s women’s soccer team and both the men’s and women’s teams at Moscow (Idaho) High School. He was the president of Idaho’s club soccer team for two years as well, during which he also played goalkeeper on the team (2004-06).

Growing up in Middletown, Lewis played four years of soccer for the Middies of Middletown High, the final two as the varsity goalkeeper. While playing in high school, he also participated in Cincinnati’s Olympic Development Program as a goalkeeper from 1989-91. Lewis eventually played in the Men’s Premier Soccer League in Portland, Ore. from 1997-98.

Lewis earned an associate degree of applied science from Hocking College in 2003 and a bachelor of science degree in wildlife resources from Idaho in 2006. He also earned a National Goalkeeper’s Diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America in 2009 after earning State and Regional Diplomas in 2008.