coach Seb Hines has been named the 2024 NWSL Coach of the 12 months, the league introduced Tuesday. Hines is in the course of preparation for the Satisfaction’s first-ever championship after working an almost flawless marketing campaign via the common season to assist lead the workforce to the Protect, additionally their first.
Hines coached the satisfaction to an 18-2-6 season, which included a 23-game unbeaten streak that solely resulted in October. The workforce rebounded from its two losses in October and has taken that momentum into the playoffs, defeating the No. 8-seed 4-1 and the No. 4-seed Kansas Metropolis Present 3-2, each at house. The workforce will face the No. 2-seed in Kansas Metropolis on Nov. 23.
Hines has been a hit story for the Satisfaction and a case examine in managing employees continuity, having been named interim head coach in June 2022 after the membership positioned former head coach Amanda Cromwell on administrative depart. Hines, the primary Black head coach within the , oversaw a particularly tough ending to the 2022 season; his second-ever recreation as interim was a 6-0 loss to the . Nevertheless, Hines managed to get the workforce to show round mid-season outcomes with a seven-game unbeaten streak, solely to expire of steam on the finish, leaving them tenth within the league general.
Hines retained the top coach title and introduced the Satisfaction inside a hair’s breadth of qualifying for playoffs in 2023, main into the high-octane success of 2024.
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