Randy Waldrum

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Randy Waldrum
Randy Waldrum 2006 2.jpg
Waldrum as the trainer of the Fighting Irish (2006)
Personnel
birthday September 25, 1956
place of birth Irving , TexasUnited States
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Los Angeles Skyhawks
Indianapolis Daredevils
New York Cosmos
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1989-1994 Tulsa Golden Hurricane
USA U18 (assistant coach)
USA U20 (assistant coach)
1996-1998 Baylor Bears
1998 Trinidad and Tobago U-17
1999-2013 Notre Dame Fighting Irish
2012-2013 USA U23
2014-2017 Houston Dash
2014-2015 Trinidad and Tobago
2017– Pittsburgh Panthers
1 Only league games are given.

Randy Waldrum (born September 25, 1956 in Irving ) is a former American football player and current coach . He spent most of his coaching career as a trainer for various women's teams in US university sports.

Career

player

Waldrum has played in the Los Angeles Skyhawks , Indianapolis Daredevils and New York Cosmos franchises throughout his career .

Trainer

From 1989 to 1994, Waldrum coached the University of Tulsa soccer teams , called Tulsa Golden Hurricane (men and women), before briefly assistant coaching the United States U-18 and U-20 national teams. In 1996 he co-founded the women's football department at Baylor University and worked as its head coach until 1998, before briefly supervising the U-17 national team of Trinidad and Tobago and then moving to the University of Notre Dame in 1999 . Waldrum won the NCAA championship with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in 2004 and 2010 .

From 2012 to December 2013 he was also the coach of the US U-23 women's national team before he was replaced by Steve Swanson .

On January 3, 2014, Waldrum was appointed the first head coach in the history of the NWSL franchise of the Houston Dash and from July 2014 to the end of 2015 also took over the post of head coach of the women's national team of Trinidad and Tobago . On May 29, 2017, he handed over the coaching position at Houston Dash after a series of four interim defeats to his previous assistant coach Omar Morales, Waldrum was offered a role as technical advisor. Since December 2017 he has coached the University of Pittsburgh's women's soccer team , the Pittsburgh Panthers.

Web links

Commons : Randy Waldrum  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. USSoccer.com: Steve Swanson Takes Over U-23 WNT as Team Finishes Year With Camp in Florida ( Memento from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Houston Dash name Randy Waldrum as first head coach , houstondynamo.com (English). Retrieved January 4, 2014.
  3. NWSLSoocer.com: Waldrum Accepts Position With Trinidad And Tobago Wnt ( Memento from July 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. Houston Dash and Randy Waldrum mutually part ways , houstondynamo.com (English). Retrieved May 31, 2017.
  5. PittsburghPanthers.com: Randy Waldrum. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .