High School Fall Sports

Varsity Co-Coach, Ryan Benshemer ’93
Ryan began attending FCS the first year they offered a middle school in 1988 when his parents, Bill and Nancy moved from Indiana to teach at Faith. He Graduated from FCS in 1993 and attended Moody Bible Institute playing on their national championship soccer team as well as being regularly involved and practicing with the Chicago Fire MLS team in their inaugural year during 1997 and 1998 when they won the MLS Cup as well as the U.S. Open Cup. From 1997 to 2001 he returned to FCS and taught history, Bible, PE, and photography as well as became the JH Dean of Students over the next several years while coaching several junior high and high school sports (soccer, basketball, volleyball, track, golf, and softball) and functioned as the JH athletic director (and HS assistant) at FCS. During those years he played soccer for Conway United in Wales during the summer months and attended the University of Wisconsin where he received master’s degrees in [Physical Education, Coaching, Recreation, and Athletics], Curriculum and Instruction, and Administration. He eventually left to become the administrator at Mt Zion Christian School in Lake Geneva from 2001-2005 in which time he also became a WIAA level 5 soccer official and continued coaching and playing at many levels. Following Mt Zion, he taught at Gateway Technical College from 2004-2008 while pursuing a Th.D. from the University of Wisconsin Madison and Covenant Theological Seminary in Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies. He went on to become the Head of Theology and eventually President of Covenant Theological Seminary from 2017-2024. Ryan has been an ordained minister since 1997 originally with the Greater Baptist Conference, has written several books, has a theology YouTube channel with over 100,000 subscribers and is the lead pastor of a newly planted (2024) church called TOV in lake Geneva (which is his third church plant including being part of the team that founded Lakeland community church in the Lake Geneva area and The River church in the Delavan area). He is currently involved with grassroots club soccer and continues to be a certified official. Ryan and his wife Krista home school their younger son Reid in 8th grade while Kade will attend FCS as a freshman and Will as a sophomore this year; their oldest son Ty graduated last year after attending 4 years of high school at FCS and being very involved in athletics. Ryan and Krista have also owned and operated Ideal Impressions Photography over the last 20 years. Krista and Ryan will co-coach FCS soccer this year and look forward to building a successful program over the next several years characterized by the traits of spiritual discipleship unto the Lord.