Jill Ellis
Ellis at the Algarve Cup in March 2015
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Jillian Anne Ellis | ||
| Date of birth | September 6, 1966 | ||
| Place of birth | Portsmouth, United Kingdom | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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United States (Head Coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 1984–1987 | William & Mary | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 1988–90 | NC State (assistant) | ||
| 1994–96 | Maryland (assistant) | ||
| 1996–97 | Virginia (assistant) | ||
| 1997–98 | Illinois | ||
| 1999–2010 | UCLA | ||
| 2000, 2005 | United States U-21 | ||
| 2007, 2009–2010 | United States U-20 | ||
| 2008, 2011–2012 | United States (assistant) | ||
| 2010– | USSF Development Director | ||
| 2012, 2014 | United States (interim) | ||
| 2014– | United States | ||
Jillian Anne Ellis (born September 6, 1966) is the head coach of the United States women's national soccer team and a development director of the United States Soccer Federation, overseeing the national youth teams development program. In 2015, the United States Women's National Football Team won the World Cup Championship under her leadership. Ellis was appointed head coach on May 16, 2014. Prior to this appointment, she served as interim head coach following the removal of Tom Sermanni on April 6, 2014, having previously held the position upon Pia Sundhage's early departure in October 2012. She has also served as head coach for various university and United States national youth teams over the years.
Ellis did not play organized football until her family moved to the United States in 1981, as there was no organized football for girls in the UK in the 1970s. She captained the Robinson Secondary School team in Fairfax, Virginia to the 1984 state championship and won the under-19 national title with the Braddock Road Bluebelles the same summer.
She went on to play as a forward at William & Mary from 1984 to 1987, when she was named third-team All-American.
Ellis has a USSF "A" coaching license; with coaching experiences that includes multiple stints for the under-20 and under-21 national teams, and an impressive UCLA Bruins record as a coach. She is the Development Director of United States Soccer Federation. She served as assistant coach of the women's national team, head coach of a number of women youth teams, and was the interim coach of the senior women's national team in 2012, and for 2 matches in 2014. She was appointed the permanent head coach of United States women in May 2014.
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