Hardy Kalisher
Boulder High School
Impact Statement
“At Boulder High, one of the things we’ve prided ourselves on is playing a style of soccer that might be above the expectations of a normal high school program.” -Hardy Kalisher
Biography
Kalisher, who has led the school to the playoffs in all of the years that he’s been the team’s head coach, won the program’s second state title in 2016 with a perfect 20-0 record.
Boulder beat Broomfield for the 5A championship on the 14th round of penalty kicks. USA TODAY ranked Boulder No. 2 in the nation in its Super 25 fall rankings.
Under Kalisher, Boulder High won the first state title in the program’s history in 2012. In addition, the Panthers finished runner-up in 2014 and were state semi-finalists in 2010 and 2013.
In 2012, Kalisher was named the Colorado High School Coaches Association’s Coach of the Year. During the same year, Kalisher won the prestigious National Double-Coach of the Year Award.
Coach Kalisher is the first coach from Colorado to win the NHSCA National Boys’ Soccer Coach of the Year.
Kalisher continues to lead the team to success at Boulder. In September of 2021, Kalisher won his 200th career victory. He and the team lost in the second round in a nail biter against the eventual state runner ups, Fossil Ridge.
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