University of Mary Athletics

A keystone player during an impressive run by the University of Mary softball team, Kodi (Kooiman) Goracke helped the Marauders earn four NAIA World Series berths, win four regional titles and capture four conference crowns.
 
A Minnesota native who moved as a child to Ripon, CA, Goracke is a graduate of Ripon Christian High School.  Goracke left California and immediately started to thrive in her return to the Upper Midwest. Named Mary softball’s Freshman of the Year, she helped the Marauders win conference and regional titles in 1999 and earn the program’s first NAIA World Series berth in six seasons. As a sophomore, she claimed All-North Dakota College Athletic Conference honors as the team again won league and regional honors and made their way to the World Series. The conference, regional and World Series runs continued the next two seasons for the Marauders with Goracke at the forefront, earning All-Dakota Athletic Conference designation at shortstop as a junior and senior. The 2002 DAC-10 Senior of the Year and team’s Most Valuable Player, Goracke led the Marauders to three wins at the World Series in her final season, the first time Mary posted multiple wins on the national stage.
 
A two-time NAIA Scholar All-American and a DAC-10 Outstanding Academic Achievement award recipient (2001, ’02), Kodi is the daughter of Wayne and Mari Kooiman. A two-time graduate from the University of Mary with bachelor’s degrees in special education and physical education in 2002 and a master’s degree in education in 2006, she is a PK-4 Elementary School Principal for ACGC Public Schools in Atwater, MN, which was named a National Blue Ribbon School by the United States Department of Education in 2014. Married to former Marauders basketball player Nathan Goracke, the couple lives in Spicer, MN, with their children, Blaine and Kennedy.