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Coaching Staff 
T.R. Bell became the head coach of the Forester women's soccer team in 1997, took over as the program's all-time winningest coach in 2000, and now has more victories than the rest of the coaches on the list combined. Bell's teams have compiled a 112-70-7 (.611) record in his 11-year career, including a 74-21-4 (.768) mark in Midwest Conference play. He has never posted a league record below .500. The 2007 Foresters finished the season with an 11-8-1 overall record and a 7-2-0 mark in the MWC, good for third place in the league standings. Lake Forest then defeated St. Norbert College 2-1 in overtime in the semifinals of the MWC Tournament before falling to host Carroll College in the final. Five Lake Forest players earned All-Midwest Conference honors in 2007, including a pair of First Team selections. Nineteen of the Foresters' 44 all-conference selections in Bell's career have been first team choices and 10 have been freshmen. The Foresters have qualified for the four-team MWC Tournament in nine of Bell's 11 seasons and earned the right to host the event three times. His 2003 team became the first in the program's history to advance to the NCAA Tournament. Other memorable victories include a 1-0 triumph at home over Monmouth College on October 21, 2006, his 100th career win. Bell, a Milwaukee native, graduated in 1996 from Lake Forest College not only with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Anthropology, but as a two-time First Team All-Midwest Conference performer, two-time Forester Most Valuable Player, and four-year starter. Bell ended his playing career with 91 points, which ranks him third on the program's all-time scoring list. He is the school's career leader with 35 assists and ranks tied-for-sixth with 28 goals, despite spending his senior year on the defensive side of the field. He also holds the school record for assists in a season with 16 in 1993. During Bell's four-year collegiate career, the Foresters were 63-12-2 (.831), won at least 11 overall and eight MWC games each season, lost just five times in MWC regular season play (34-5-2), and were 4-2-0 in the MWC Tournament along the way to two conference titles (1992 and 1995). Bell's pre-Lake Forest career was highlighted by seven Wisconsin state championships while playing for the Bavarian Club of Milwaukee. Bell has also coached at several soccer training facilities, including
the Reebok Post-to-Post Camps.
Bell's Year-By-Year Coaching Record at Lake Forest
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