NWSL Let Coach Licensing Fall Through The Cracks
One example of how the NWSL got to this point was a theme in the Yates report: coach licensing.
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Neither Christy Holly nor Rory Dames ever held the requisite license to be a head coach in the league.
Holly began as a part-time volunteer reserve team coach at Sky Blue FC in 2013, advancing to become the head coach in just three years.
He never acquired the licensing required to be an NWSL head coach — a U.S. Soccer A coaching license — despite coaching 38 games at Sky Blue and then 21 at Racing Louisville.
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The report states that Rory Dames also did not hold his A license for eight out of the nine years he coached the Red Stars.
It notes that “the league applied repeatedly for and received a waiver from USSF.”
Meanwhile…
Holly and Dames beginning their NWSL tenures as volunteers speak to standards that were considered acceptable at a league level.
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