During the summer of 2004, Chris Kouns became the fourth head coach of the Jacksonville University women's soccer program as he inherited a Dolphin team that came off a 6-12 season and missed out on the 2003 Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament. As he prepares to enter his third season, with his second recruiting class, the program is beginning to take the shape that Kouns' envisioned.

In his first two seasons, the Dolphins were low on numbers due to injuries, but Kouns instilled a tough character into those teams which battled to make the A-Sun Tournament semifinals in both seasons.

In 2005, the Dolphins finished with an 8-10-3 record and secured the fourth seed in the A-Sun Tournament with just 12 (10 freshman) players. They knocked off East Tennessee State before falling to regular-season champion Florida Atlantic. Kouns saw one of his newcomers, Keri Zwikker, earn A-Sun "Freshman of the Year", while senior Amber Otto and freshman Michelle Lavine made the all-conference team. Off the field, his Dolphins earn a spot on the National Soccer Coaches Association of America all-academic team after posting a 3.12 team grade point average.

The Dolphins earned the sixth seed for the A-Sun Tournament during Kouns' first season in 2004. They pulled a first round upset by coming from behind twice to defeat No. 3 seed Florida Atlantic. The Dolphins eventually fell in the semifinals to UCF. Stephanie Elgie and Jess Newport each earned a spot on the A-Sun all-freshman team, while the team ended the season with a 5-9-5 record.

Before taking the helm of the Dolphins, Kouns coached at one of the Ivy League's elite programs, the University of Pennsylvania.

Kouns spent the 2003 and 2004 seasons as an assistant coach with the Quakers. In 2004, he helped lead the Quakers to a 9-5-3 mark and a fourth-place finish in the Ivy league. The successful 2004 season was highlighted by a 3-2 victory over No. 20 Princeton. During his time at Penn, he helped develop two all-Ivy League performers, Katie Cross and Robin Watson, while the Quakers were ranked as high as No. 10 in the NSCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional rankings. They earned the NSCAA Team Academic Award after posting a 3.35 team GPA. Kouns also acted as the recruiting coordinator for the 2003-04 recruiting class, which was considered one of the best is school history.

Prior to coaching at Penn, Kouns spent the 2002 season as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for former Atlantic Sun rival, Georgia State. He helped the Panthers to a nine-win season and a berth in the A-Sun Tournament. Two of Kouns' recruits, Lauren Chavez and Amber Collins-Cephers, later earned A-Sun all-freshman team accolades in 2003.

Kouns was an assistant coach at Samford University from 2000-02. During that span, he helped guide the Bulldogs to 16 wins and a spot in the 2001 A-Sun Championship game for the second time in school history. The 2000 squad also posted a school-record 1.54 goals against average, while two of her recruits, Heidi Kearns and Lindsay Shanks, earn A-Sun all-freshman team honors in 2001.

Kouns began his collegiate coaching career as head coach at Union (Ky.) College, where he led Bulldogs to a 15-9-0 overall record and the Mid-South Conference Tournament Championship in 1999. Union lost to No. 4 Transylvania in the NAIA National Tournament Qualifier. The squad featured the MSC "Player of the Year" and all-time leader in golas for college soccer, Juliana Filipe. Kouns also produced a host of all-MSC players and academic all-MSC performers while at Union.

He started his coaching career as head coach at Fayette County (Ga.) High School from 1993-98, where Kouns posted an 85-29-3 record and made five appearances in the Georgia High School Association Final Four. In 1993, he led Fayette County to a No. 1 state ranking for seven consecutive weeks which ended with a double overtime loss in the state championship game. That year the Tigers earned a No. 25 national ranking and Kouns was tabbed as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Co-Coach of the Year." In his six seasons, the Tigers never finished lower than No. 5 in the GHSA state rankings and captured two region championships. Kouns was also twice chosen, once as a head coach and once as an assistant, for the Georgia Athletic Coaches Association All-Star Game. He was also on the NSCAA national ranking committee for high school soccer.

Kouns graduated cum laude from Mars Hill College (N.C.) with a bachelor's degree in history and psychology in 1992. A four-year letter winner for the Lions as a defender, he earned South Atlantic Conference Honor Roll honors all four years. In 1992, Kouns earned Academic All-America honors.

In high school, Kouns graduated from Riverdale High School in Georgia where he was a four-year letterwinner in soccer. As a sweeper, he earned the first soccer athletic scholarship in school history. Kouns was also a member of the Georgia club soccer state champion squad in 1986.

Kouns has earned a United States Soccer Federation A License and a NSCAA Premier Diploma. He currently serves on the Region III staff and has conducted state mini-camps in Arkansas as well as the regional camp in Alabama. He has also been a member of the Region I Olympic Development Program Regional staff and on the state coaching staffs in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Alabama.