Jill Ellis

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Jill Ellis
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Jillian Ellis (2015)
Personnel
Surname Jillian Ellis
birthday September 6, 1966
place of birth Folkestone ,  England , UK
Juniors
Years station
1984-1987 College of William and Mary
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1988-1990 North Carolina State University (Assistant)
1994-1996 University of Maryland (Assistant)
1996-1997 University of Virginia (Assistant)
1997-1999 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1999-2010 University of California at Los Angeles
2000, 2005 USA U21
2007, 2009-2010 USA U20
2008, 2011–2012 USA (assistant)
2010– USSF Development Director
2012, 2014 USA (interim)
2014-2019 United States

Jillian Ellis (born September 6, 1966 in Folkestone , United Kingdom ) is a British- American football coach . Since 2010 she has been Development Director of the United States Soccer Federation . From May 16, 2014 to October 6, 2019, she was the coach of the US women's national soccer team . Before that, she held the post on an interim basis after Tom Sermanni's dismissal . Ellis was also an interim coach after Pia Sundhage's resignation from October to December 2012. With a total of 132 international matches, she is the record coach in the USA. She was the first coach to win the World Cup twice with her team (2015 and 2019). As Development Director, Ellis oversees the development program for the US junior teams. She has also coached the US U-20 and U-21 teams and various university teams.

Education and youth

Jillian Ellis received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Composition from the College of William and Mary in 1988 . She played as a forward on the college team of William and Mary from 1984 to 1987 and was third-team All-American in 1987. In 1984 Ellis helped Braddock Road in Virginia to the U-19 championship.

Trainer and administration career

Jillian Ellis received her USSF "A" coaching license in January 1996 and has training experience that includes: a. includes overseeing the U-20 and U-21 national teams and the University of California at Los Angeles team . Since 2010 she has been Development Director of the United States Soccer Federation . In addition, she worked as an assistant coach for the women's national team, chief coach of the junior women's teams and was interim coach of the women's national team in 2012, and again for 2 games in 2014. In May 2014, she became the main coach of the women's national team.

College coach

Ellis worked as an assistant coach for three university teams: North Carolina State University for three years (1988–90), University of Maryland for another three years (1994–96) and University of Virginia for one year (1996–90) 97). As an assistant coach at NC State, she helped Wolfpack win the Atlantic Coast Conference title in 1988 and take part in the NCAA Final Four.

From 1997 to 1999 she was the main coach at the University of Illinois and in 1998 she achieved a 12: 8 record and a first-ever Big Ten Tournament "berth" with the Illinois Fighting Illinois .

Ellis led the University of California, Los Angeles to eight NCAA final fours, including seven consecutive from 2003 to 2009, and won six Pacific-12 Conference titles from 2003 to 2008. She finished her tenure at Westwood with a record of 229 wins, 45 Defeats and 14 draws. She was NSCAA National Coach of the Year in 2000 after leading the Bruins to the NCAA Finals as head coach in their sophomore season.

Jillian Ellis has an all-time record of 248 wins, 63 losses and 14 draws in 14 years with college teams: Illinois Fighting Illinois and UCLA Bruins .

US junior indoor trainer

During her time as college coach, Ellis was also the head coach of the U21 team in the USA with which she won the Nordic Cup in Germany against Germany in 2000 and against Norway in Sweden in 2005. At the Pan-American Games in Brazil in 2007 , she reached the final with the U-21 team, but then lost to the Brazilian senior team 5-0. With the U20 team , she won the CONCACAF U-20 Women's Championship in 2010 and reached the U-20 Women's World Cup in 2010 , where she was eliminated in the quarter-finals against the eventual finalists Nigeria on penalties .

National Development Director

After 12 successful years as the head coach of UCLA Bruins, Ellis got a full-time position with the United States Soccer Federation in January 2011 as the development director for the US women's national teams. The appointment, along with former national coach April Heinrichs, as technical director, marks the beginning of a full-time position at the US federation to oversee the program of the junior teams and their development.

As Development Director, Ellis works directly with the coaches of the clubs in the junior women's leagues and leads the U-17, U-15 and U-14 national teams.

National coach

Ellis worked as a scout for the US national team at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and as assistant coach to Pia Sundhage at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing when the US team won the gold medal for the third time. After Pia Sundhage left the US team to coach her home country Sweden , Ellis played seven games from October to December 2012 (two of them against Germany on October 20, 2012 1: 1 in Bridgeview and October 23, 2012 2: 2 in Hartford ) interim coach until Tom Sermanni took up his position as the new national coach in January.

After the national team had only finished 7th at the Algarve Cup 2014 and thus the worst position so far, Tom Sermanni was dismissed on April 6, 2014 and Ellis was again interim coach. As an interim coach, she and her team achieved a 3-0 win over China and a 1-1 draw against Canada .

On May 16, 2014, Ellis became the head coach. She won her first title with the team at the 2014 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup , which her team won with five wins and 21-0 goals, qualifying for the 2015 Women's World Cup in Canada. After the team finished second in the four-nation tournament in Brazil in December 2014, the USA dropped to second place behind Germany in the FIFA world rankings in December 2014 . After the first defeat against France in a friendly match in February 2015, they won the Algarve Cup 2015 , which their team won for the 10th time by beating France 2-0 in the final. On April 14, 2015, she named the squad for the World Cup as the first coach. There she led her team to the final, in which the USA defeated Japan 5-2 with their highest victory to date and became world champions for the third time. On the one hand, she relied on the oldest team with an average age of 29.4 years, but also older players such as Christie Rampone and Abby Wambach temporarily put them on the bench or only changed them for a short time and instead left the U-20 world champions from 2012 Morgan Brian and Julie Ertz play.

Office First game Last game Games Victories draw Defeats successes
interim 10/20/2012 December 15, 2012 7th 5 2 0
interim 04/10/2014 05/08/2014 2 1 1 0
Head coach 06/14/2014 06.10.2019 123 100 16 7th Gold Cup 2014 , Gold Cup 2018 , Algarve Cup 2015 , World Champion 2015 , World Champion 2019

Private life

Ellis grew up in Portsmouth ( UK on), but emigrated in 1981 at the age of 15 with her parents to the United States. She lived in Singapore for two years , where her father John Ellis developed the national soccer program. Jillian Ellis currently resides in Miami , Florida . Her father, John Ellis, was the British Government's football ambassador for a long time, with the task of supporting football programs around the world. He worked as the head coach of the national soccer team of Trinidad and Tobago , assistant coach of the US women's national team and founded the Soccer Academy. Jillian's brother Paul Ellis is also a soccer coach. He was the head coach of a regional junior team and assistant coach at George Mason University . He is currently working full-time at Soccer Academy Inc.

Awards

successes

As a college trainer:

As national coach:

  • As a junior indoor trainer:
    • Nordic Cup 2000 and 2005 with the U-21
    • 2010 CONCACAF champion with the U-20

As co-trainer:

  • 2008 Olympic gold medal

As head coach:

  • World Champion at the 2015 Women's World Cup
  • 2014 CONCACAF championship
  • 2015 Algarve Cup winner
  • World Champion 2019

Web links

Commons : Jill Ellis  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jill Ellis Named Head Coach of the US Women's National Team. In: ussoccer.com. USoccer, May 6, 2014, accessed April 24, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b USWNT fires coach Sermanni, Ellis takes over in the interim. In: foxsports.com. Foxsports, April 6, 2014, accessed April 24, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b c Jill Ellis Named Head Coach of the US Women's National Team. In: ussoccer.com. USoccer, May 16, 2014, accessed April 24, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Jillian Ellis. In: ussoccer.com. USoccer, 2014, accessed April 24, 2015 .
  5. ↑ HEAD COACH: US Women's U-21 National Team: Jillian Ellis. In: soccertimes.com. soccertimes.com, 2000, archived from the original on March 3, 2016 ; Retrieved April 24, 2015 .
  6. ^ Jillian Ellis Named Coach of the US Under-20 Women's National Team. In: ussoccer.com. USoccer, March 19, 2009, archived from the original on August 19, 2012 ; Retrieved April 24, 2015 .
  7. ^ Soccer: Coach Jillian Ellis leaves UCLA. In: espn.go. ESPN, June 1, 2011, accessed April 24, 2015 .
  8. ^ BJ Snow to coach UCLA women's soccer program, Jillian Ellis moving on. In: dailybruin.com. DAILY BRUIN, January 6, 2011, accessed April 24, 2015 .
  9. ↑ a b Heinrichs and Ellis hired to run girls program. In: Soccer America. SoccerAmericaDaily, January 7, 2011, accessed April 24, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Tom Sermanni Named Head Coach of the US Women's National Team. In: ussoccer.com. USoccer, October 30, 2012, archived from the original on November 3, 2012 ; Retrieved April 24, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Germany takes over from the USA at the top. In: fifa.com. FIFA, December 19, 2014, accessed April 24, 2015 .
  12. ^ Ellis Names US roster for 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Team. In: ussoccer.com. USoccer, April 14, 2014, accessed April 24, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME Ellis, Jill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ellis, Jillian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American soccer coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Folkestone , UK
  1. ^ Jill Ellis - Farewell to the Winningest Coach in US Soccer History. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .