Ken Krause

Bio

Coach Krause has recently served his 29th year as a head football coach. Coach Krause was the head football coach at Muskego High School for the past 17 seasons. In 14 of the past 15 seasons, Coach Krause has led the Muskego Warriors to winning seasons (134-40 record). Coach Krause has led the Warriors to 13 playoff seasons (12 playoff teams have won the opening round playoff game), 30 playoff wins (30-10 Playoff Record), 7 Classic Eight Conference Championships (2014, 2015 and 2018 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022), 8 final eight state appearances (2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024) and 4 straight final four in state appearances (2017-2020 and 2024). Coach Krause led Muskego to the school's first-ever State Championship in 2018, and they repeated in 2019. In 2020, the Warriors went 9-0 and finished the season ranked Number 1 in the state by WISSPORTS and the AP. Muskego holds the 8th-longest winning streak in Wisconsin high school history with 41 straight wins, has the Classic Eight record 26 consecutive wins, and had a 33-game home winning streak from 2018 to 2022. At the end of the 2019 football season, the Muskego Warriors finished ranked 23rd in the nation by USA Today.

In 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, and 2020, Coach Krause was selected Classic Eight Coach of the Year by the Classic Eight Head Football Coaches. In 2015, Coach Krause was awarded the Green Bay Packer Coach of the week for the state of Wisconsin when the Warriors knocked off the Number 1 ranked in the state, Hartland Arrowhead, to win the conference championship. In 2020, Coach Krause was a finalist for the Coach of the Year for the State of Wisconsin by the Associated Press and Travis Wilson from WISSPORTS.
In 2018, Coach Krause was selected the Football Coach of the Year for the State of Wisconsin by the Green Bay Packers, Wisconsin Football Coaches Association, Associated Press, and USA Today. Coach Krause was nominated in 2018 by the Green Bay Packers for the Don Shula National High School Coach of the Year for the USA (Coach was one of the 32 finalists in the entire country). Coach Krause was awarded the Waukesha County Coach of the Year by the Waukesha Freeman and Milwaukee Journal All-Area Coach of the Year in 2018. Coach Krause was also selected by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as the High School Coach of the Year for ALL high school sports in 2018. Coach has won 193 games and has a record of 35- 15 in the playoffs. Last summer, Coach Krause was chosen as the Head Coach of the South All-Star team and won the game 48 to 14, snapping a five-game losing streak for the South.

In 2023, Coach Krause was inducted into the Wisconsin High School Football Coaches Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. This past year, Coach Krause was selected into the NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC COACHES ASSOCIATION. HALL OF FAME.

As the offensive coordinator, Coach Krause’s offense over the past 14 years has averaged 35 POINTS PER GAME. In 2014, the Warriors set a conference record by averaging 44.1 points a game in the Classic Eight. 64 Football players have gone on to play college football from the past 14 teams. Fourteen players have gone on to play Division 1 football.

Before being the head coach at Muskego, Coach Krause was the head football coach at West Allis Central, where he led the Bulldogs to a conference championship, six playoff berths, two appearances in the quarterfinals, and numerous winning seasons. Coach Krause started coaching high school football at age 19 and became head football coach when he was 23 years old. While teaching at West Allis Central, he was voted by the student body as Most Influential Teacher in 2004.

Coach Krause teaches special education at Muskego High School. He is married to his beautiful wife Julie and has four sons: Cody, a 2017 Alumni of MHS, Dylan, Alumni 2022, and twins Aiden and Ashton who are playing football for Winona State, Alumni 2024. Coach Krause feels very blessed to teach and coach at the best high school in the state.