Brandon Kim | Head Coach
Head coach Brandon Kim is in his second season as head coach after being promoted on January 14, 2025. The Carmel native had been an assistant coach for the Girls in Blue since the team began in 2022, serving as acting head coach for much of the 2024 season.
“I am fortunate to have been part of the coaching staff the last three seasons–to be named head coach is an incredible honor,” said Kim. “The Indy soccer community and the Indy Eleven fan base are second to none, to say that I am beyond grateful and excited to be back out on the field with them again in 2025 is an understatement. I would like to thank the club for the opportunity, and I cannot wait to get started.”
During his three-year tenure as assistant coach, Kim helped Indy Eleven become one of only three USL W League teams to make the playoffs in all three seasons of the league’s history.
The Girls in Blue won their third straight division title in 2024, topping the Valley Division for the second consecutive year following a Great Lakes Division title in 2022. In 2024, Indy Eleven posted a 7-1-2 record with five shutouts and a goal differential of +25, reaching the Central Conference finals.
Kim helped Indy Eleven to the 2023 USL W League Championship in front of a record-setting home crowd of 5,419 at Carroll Stadium.
Prior to the Girls in Blue, Kim was an assistant coach at Lady Victory FC in the WPSL and a men’s assistant at Marian University for three years. He began his coaching career at Carmel United and Park Tudor.
He also is the Indy Eleven Academy Girls U11-U12 Director of Coaching, holding a USSF B Coaching License.
As a player, Kim began competing for the Carmel United Soccer Club and in the inaugural Developmental Academy teams for Indiana Fire Juniors. Following his Carmel High School career, he played soccer for the University of Southern Indiana for one season, while also running track and field for three years before transferring to earn his bachelor’s degree in Communications Studies at IUPUI.
Gina Cormier | Assistant Coach
Gina Cormier is in her first season working with the Girls in Blue. A U.S. Youth National Team Talent Scout for the U.S. Soccer Federation, she is the top assistant at IU Indianapolis. She joined the Jaguars in 2025 after two seasons as head coach at Arizona Christian University in Glendale, Ariz., where she led her 2023 team to a school-record 10 wins.
Cormier played collegiately at the University of New Mexico where she was a three-time member of the Dean’s Honor Roll. She earned her bachelors in elementary education from the University of New Mexico and later added a Master’s in literacy from UT-Arlington.
She holds a USSF ‘A’ License, which she competed in Winter 2026.
Rana Hoffbauer | Assistant Coach
Rana Hoffbauer joined the Indy Eleven W League coaching staff as assistant coach in 2025 after serving as an assistant at IU Indianapolis that season.
Hoffbauer has coached at the semi-pro, college, high school, and club levels in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Indianapolis. She coached with Brandon Kim at Park Tudor, helping the Panthers to three Sectional, two Regional, and two Conference championships.
Hoffbauer played after college in the W League, WPSL, and UWSL. Collegiately, she began her career at Cincinnati State, earning Regional “Player of the Year” honors. She finished at Marian University, where she still holds the season scoring record. Hoffbauer grew up playing in Cincinnati, with her teams earning second and third-place finishes in national tournaments.
“Adding Rana to our staff brings me great joy,” said Kim. “Rana gave me one of my first coaching jobs at a time I thought I was only going to coach while I figured out what I was going to do with my life. Little did I know, almost 15 years later, I would be making a career out of it. Rana has been an incredible mentor, confidant, friend and colleague and I am over the moon to be working with her again.”
Joe Sochacki | Sporting Director
Joe Sochacki is the Indy Eleven Pro Academy Director for the Elite Club National League (ECNL).
He also is an assistant coach for Butler University Women’s Soccer.
Sockacki is an Indianapolis native who attended Bishop Chatard High School and played college soccer at IU Indianapolis.
Kelly Freeland | Goalkeeper Coach
Kelly Freeland continues her role as Goalkeeper Coach for the Girls in Blue for the fifth year.
In 2024, her goalkeepers recorded five clean sheets, with Nona Reason getting three. Reason earned second-team All-USL W League honors in 2023, with Freeland’s goalkeepers notching 10 shutouts and allowing only six goals against on their way to the Valley Division title and the 2023 USL W League Championship.
Freeland has coached some of the state’s premier goalkeeping talent in the Indiana Olympic Development Program (ODP) since 2017 and as Director of Goalkeeping with Zionsville Youth Soccer Association (ZYSA) for the last five years. Freeland earned her USSF Level I Goalkeeper Diploma and USSF D Coaching License.
Freeland earned a Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Pitt.
Freeland grew up playing locally with Carmel United Soccer Club and in the ECNL platform of the Indiana Fire Juniors program.
“Kelly and Sierra have both played monumental roles in the team’s success the last three years,” said Kim. “I cannot express how invaluable they are to our staff. I coached Kelly as a youth player; seeing her passion grow and lead her into coaching is a very cool thing, even if it makes me feel a little old.”
Andy Swift | Goalkeeper Coach
This is Andy Swift’s first season with the Girls in Blue.
He is in his ninth season as Goalkeeper Coach & Video Analyst for the Indy Eleven First Team. He is responsible for goalkeepers, opposition scouting, and defensive set pieces.
Swift has helped coach the Boys in Blue to the 2024 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup semi-finals and four USL Championship playoff appearances, including the 2019 Eastern Conference finals.
Swift also is the Director of Goalkeeping for the Indy Eleven Academy.
Swift has earned the US Soccer Federation A-Senior License, Goalkeeping License, and the United Soccer Coaches National Goalkeeping Diploma and Advanced National Diploma.
Prior to his time with Indy Eleven, Swift coached in the college game as an assistant coach for Marian University (2015-18), Jacksonville State University (2008-15), University of Akron (2007-08) and Clarion University of Pennsylvania (2005-07).
Sierra Garber, MS, LAT, ATC | Head Athletic Trainer
Sierra Garber is in her fifth season as Head Athletic Trainer for the club’s USL W League squad.
“There is no one better at her job than Sierra Garber,” said Kim. “She’s extremely dedicated to her craft and the players fully trust in her ability to provide any treatment, recovery or prep they need.”
Garber served as a Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer at Western Michigan University, when she enrolled as a master’s student in the Broncos’ Athletic Training program in 2019. Garber began serving as a Sports Medicine Network Professional for the U.S. Soccer Federation’s Youth National Teams in 2019. She served as the Indiana Fire Juniors Academy Athletic Trainer from 2016-18.
Emily Sochacki | Manager, Team Operations
Former Indiana University player Emily Sochacki joined the Girls in Blue as Team Operations Manager in 2026 after being part of the Indy Eleven Academy for many years, bringing a broad knowledge of the players and the Droplight Grand Park Sports Campus.
