Club Coach to D1/2/3 ?

[Dominic]

What percentage of Club coaches move on to College coaching? Do you know any successful club coaches that are now having success at the collegiate level?

 

[Carlsbad7]

I know a couple that do both but not at as a head coach at the collegiate level.

 

[Slobodan]

I was always under the impression college coaches pick up a couple club teams to supplement the income.

 

[Mystery Train]

What percentage of Club coaches move on to College coaching? Do you know any successful club coaches that are now having success at the collegiate level?

Manny Martins at Utah State got his start in club, I believe. I met him when he was the DoC at what used to be called LA Premier, got hired at UCLA as assistant/recruiter and eventually got the HC job at USU. I get the idea that it's more common for a college coach to get their start in college as an assistant and get into club to supplement income rather than move from club to college. Not that being a college coach automatically translates to being any better than a club coach...

 

[dk_b]

UCLA’s coach Margueritte Aozasa was a coach at MVLA and an assistant at stanford before heading south. Cal’s coach Neil McGuire has occasionally been a coach at Mustang SC (assistant coach Cori Callahan coaches keepers at Mustang and, before that, at a couple of smaller east bay clubs. And over the last 7 or 8 yrs, a number of Cal players have coached at Berkeley High as assistants)

 

[outside!]

Wake Forrest's Coach was at Carlsbad Lightning/Carlsbad Elite/LA Galaxy San Diego for several years.

 

[socalkdg]

Utah State, UCLA, Wake Forest, all have great soccer programs. Like the US in general, you have good and bad coaches, employees, bosses, etc at all levels. If you are really good at something, which I'd put all three of the coaches mentioned in that category, having the chance to move from club to assistant in college, to getting their own head coaching job is what the US is built on. Work hard, get better at what you do, gain more responsibility, get better jobs.

 

[whatithink]

Greg Vanney of LA Galaxy "fame" started out in youth soccer in Arizona, but bypassed college! That was probably his mistake

 

[DeaconSoccer12]

Wake Forrest's Coach was at Carlsbad Lightning/Carlsbad Elite/LA Galaxy San Diego for several years.

Are you referring to asst coach Courtney? She moved on from City SC when she got an opportunity to hop into a college job (a great one at that).

Many college assts do start out in club coaching but I would say its rare to hop from club into a top asst position and essentially never directly into D1 head coaching. More likely to have to grind as a 2nd asst and move around to climb the ladder.

 

[Royal26]

Most of Long Beach State's staff still coaches at Beach FC.