Kyle Woodcock will enter his 11th season as Head Bowling Coach in the Fall of 2025.
He became Alma College's second-ever Head Coach of Women's Bowling when he took over in July of 2014.
Since Woodcock became head coach, he has built the women's bowling program into national recognition.
In 2024-25, Alma was led by Morgan Smith, who bowled over the 11,000 scoring mark for the second straight season, en route to Second Team All-AHBA honors. She recorded five top 10 finishes, and three top five finishes. As a team, Alma recorded 21 top 25 individual finishes.
Woodcock's 2023-24 team put in another strong performance. The highlight was Morgan Smith, who bowled the highest single season pin total in program history, coming just shy of breaking the 12,000 barrier. The sophomore was named First Team Club All-American,and picked up the first 2 individual wins of her career.
2022-23 saw a resurgence from Alma. The Scots won their 2nd Club National Championship going away, and several All-American honorees were highlighted by Cassie White, who was named All-Tournament Team MVP.
In the 2020-21 season the Scots would win the Club National Championship.
The 2019-2020 season would be a breakout year for the Scots program. Woodcock was named the Larry Wilson Coach of The Year by the Club Team Bowling Coaches Association and was also nominated for the National Collegiate Bowling Coaches Association (NCBCA) Kerm Helmer Women's Coach of the Year Award. Emma Davis and Rachel Kuczajda were named First Team All-Americans while Josee Hale earned Second Team All-American honors. The bowling team won five tournaments in 2019-20, finished second in three others, and also finished fourth out of 64 teams at the Hoosier Classic in what Woodcock said "might be the best accomplishment in the history of our bowling program." Davis was crowned the League MVP after the Scots won the CTBCA American Heartland Tournament. Along with Davis, Cassie White and Kemmie Shunk were First Team All-Conference bowlers while Hale and Kuczajda earned Second Team honors.
Woodcock coached two all-conference bowlers in the 2018-2019 season. Emma Davis was named First-Team All-Conference and Josee Hale was named Second-Team All-Conference at the American Heartland Championships.
In 2017-2018, the Scots saw several improvements, including a first-place overall finish at the American Heartland IV tournament, which featured three of the top 15 teams in the country. Alma had also seen a fifth-place finish in the Heartland I and II tournaments, where they bowled a 6910.
The 2016-2017 season saw the Scots post fifth place showings at the Adrian College Open and American Heartland III tournaments. Skyler Mcarthur and Paige Huebel were named Scholar All-Americans after participating in the United States Bowling Congress Sectionals. Emma Davis earned a spot on the All-Tournament team twice that season - at the Columbia 300 Western Shootout in October and again at the Roto Grip Raider Classic in November.
In 2025-16, Woodcock coached two more All-Americans in Brianna Pitre and Lillie Miller.
In his first season as head coach in 2014-2015, Jessica Cords was named All-American.
Woodcock began his bowling coaching career at St. Louis (Mich.) High School in the 2002-2003 season with a boys club sport team before the MHSAA recognized bowling. In the 2003-2004 season, the MHSAA started recognizing bowling as a High School sport and that year he started a girl's program. He had State qualifying teams in 2005, 2006 and 2010. He won the State Championship in 2015. Woodcock also oversaw State individual qualifiers in 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013 and two in 2014.
He has also coached 12 bowlers who have made the Michigan State All-Academic team. In the 2013-2014 season, he became the assistant coach with the Scots before taking over as head coach in 2014.
Prior to coaching bowling, Woodcock coached six years of little league baseball in St Louis and served one year as President of the Little League and two years as vice president. He also helped coach youth wrestling in St Louis for four years.
Personally, he has completed Levels I and II of the Dick Ritger academy for coaching bowling and have completed the USBC Level I and Bronze course for coaching bowling. His personal best accomplishments are 7,300 games and 2,800 series.
