Jill Ellis

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Jillian Anne Ellis, born 6 September 1966, is an English-American soccer coach.

She coached the US women's national soccer team for five years, beginning in 2014 and ending on October 6, 2019.

She has also won two FIFA Women's World Cups with the USWNT and is the US Soccer Federation's development director, overseeing the national youth team development program. The United States Women's National Soccer Team won the World Cup in 2015 and 2019, making her the second coach to win a World Cup back-to-back.

Ellis was hired head coach on May 16, 2014, and he has been named as such.

She served as interim head coach ahead of Tom Sermanni's dismissal on April 6, 2014, having previously served as interim head coach on Pia Sundhage's departure in October 2012.

She has also served as head coach for numerous college and national youth teams over the years.

Personal life

Ellis grew up in Cowplain, a tiny village near Portsmouth, on the southern coast of England, and was a backer of Manchester United. She attended Padnell Junior School and Cowplain School. She was naturally athletic, played field hockey, and netball, but not play organized soccer because it was considered "unladylike" in 1970s Britain. She will, however, tag along with her brother Paul and play with the boys whenever they needed an extra player.

Her father, John Ellis, a former Royal Marines commando, was sent by the British government to help develop soccer programs around the world, including in Trinidad and Tobago and Singapore. In 1981, the Ellis family migrated to Northern Virginia, where he founded the Soccer Academy in Manassas.

Paul's brother Paul played for soccer, coached high school teams, and served as an assistant coach at George Mason before taking a full-time position at Soccer Academy Inc.

Ellis earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Composition at the College of William and Mary in 1988. In 2016, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Human Letters degree and was accepted into Omicron Delta Kappa as an alumni member of the College of William and Mary in 2019. She also worked toward a master's degree in scientific writing at North Carolina State University. Margaret "was devastated" to learn that she would drop her lucrative writing career at Northern Telecom to work as an assistant coach with subsistence compensation, though John advised her to "do something meaningful" instead.

Ellis and her mother Betsy Stephenson, who married in 2013 and their adopted daughter Lily Stephenson-Ellis, live in Palmetto Bay, Florida, a suburb of Miami. Ellis, her parents, and her brother are both naturalized American citizens.

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Early life and playing career

Ellis did not play football until her family immigrated to the United States in 1981, as there were no football for girls in the United Kingdom in the 1970s. She coached the Robinson Secondary School team in Fairfax, Virginia, to the 1984 state championship and gained the under-19 national championship with the Braddock Road Bluebelles the same summer.

She continued to play for William & Mary from 1984 to 1987, when she was named third-team All-American. During her four seasons at the university, she scored 32 goals.

Coaching and administrative career

Ellis has a USSF Pro coaching license; with teaching experience that includes stints with the under-20 and under-21 national teams as well as a long tenure as a UCLA Bruins coach, he has an impressive track record. She is the United States Soccer Federation's Development Director. She served as assistant coach for a number of women's national teams, head coach of a number of women's teams, and was the interim coach of the senior women's national team in 2012 and two games in 2014. In May 2014, she was named permanent head coach of United States women.

Ellis served as an assistant coach at three universities, 1994–96; at Virginia for one year, 1996–97; and then at NC State for another three years, 1988–90. Ellis, as an assistant coach at N.C. State, helped the NC State win the 1988 Atlantic Coast Conference championship and the NCAA Women's College Cup debut.

Ellis was the head coach of Illinois' women's soccer team for two years, 1997-1989. She led the Fighting Illini to a 12-8 record and a first-ever Big Ten Tournament berth in 1998.

Ellis won eight NCAA Women's College Cups from 2003 to 2009, including seven in a row from 2003-2009, and six in a row. (229–45–14), she came to an end in Westwood with a record of 229 victories, 45 losses, and 14 draws. She was the 2000 NSCAA National Coach of the Year after leading the Bruins to the NCAA championship game in only her second season as head coach.

Ellis has a lifetime coaching experience, winning 248 games, 63 losses, and 14 draws (248–63–14), which he has had with the Illinois Fighting Illini and UCLA Bruins, who played for over 14 years.

Ellis was the head coach of the United States under 21 women's national football teams, assisting a team to win the Nordic Cup in Germany 2000 and Sweden's 2005 Nordic Cup. She led the U.S. under-20 women's national team to the CONCACAF crown in 2010 and the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Germany in her second stint as head coach.

Ellis was hired by US Soccer as the Development Director for the U.S. women's national teams in January 2011. The appointment, along with April Heinrichs as Technical Director, marked the first time U.S. Soccer had full-time positions to oversee the administrative and growth of national women's youth teams.

Ellis, the United States' under-17, under-15, and under-14 teams, works closely with coaches and mentors directly within the youth club leagues and coaches.

Ellis served as a scout for the US women's national team at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, as well as a mentor under Pia Sundhage for the gold medal-winning U.S. women's national team at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Following Sundhage's resignation as the head coach for Sweden's national team program development director) on September 1, 2012, Ellis (as the women's national team's national team program development director) served as the interim head coach until United States Soccer hired Tom Sermanni as the full head coach until U.S. Soccer fired him on January 1, 2013.

Ellis' first appearances as head coach of the United States women's national soccer team came against Germany on October 20, 2012, in Bridgeview, Illinois, and on October 23th at Hartford, Connecticut. The international friendly matches were part of a programme planned to celebrate the gold medalists at the 2012 Olympics. The first match ended 1–1, with the second ending at 2–2.

Ellis finished her first stint as interim head coach of the U.S. women's national team with 5 victories, 2 draws, and no loss in 2012 with a match against China on December 15, 2012.

United States Soccer reported the dismissal of Tom Sermanni and Ellis as interim head coach of the United States women's national soccer team on April 6, 2014. Ellis, the interim head coach, had a 3–0 win over China and a 1–1 draw with Canada.

Ellis had been named as the national team's head coach on a permanent basis by U.S. Soccer on May 16, 2014. Ellis' position as head coach was to qualify for the 2015 Women's World Cup and win the grand prize. She guided the United States to a 5–2 victory over Japan on July 5, 2015, beating Japan 5–2 for the World Cup. Ellis was named as the 2015 FIFA World Coach of Women's Football on January 11, 2016.

Ellis was one of the USWNT leaders who did not take action after being told of a "hostile [coaching] environment" in 2014 and finding a player survey with "quite troubling" findings including sexual harassment in 2015.

To win the CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship in 2016, the U.S. women's national team secured five shutout victories. However, the team suffered during the 2016 Summer Olympics, drawing against Colombia in the group stage and losing to eventual silver medalists Sweden after drawing in regulation and extra time. The loss marked the first time that the women's national team of the United States did not qualify to the gold medal game of the Olympics, as well as the first time the team failed to advance to the semifinal round of a major tournament. Hope Solo, a goalkeeper in the United States, dragged the Swedish team "cowards" for their defensive tactics. Ellis would later cite those remarks as part of the reason why U.S. Soccer terminated Solo's deal and suspended her from the team.

In two matches against Switzerland, the US women's national team won four subsequent international friendly matches (9–0 against Thailand, 3–1 against the Netherlands, and 4–0 and 5–1 against Switzerland). Ellis's tenure as she took in 11 uncapped players, began or played 6 of them, and left several regular players out of camp.

Ellis begged U.S. women's national team midfielder Megan Rapinoe not to kneel during the game's pre-game performance of the United States national anthem. Before playing against Seattle Reign FC, Rapinoe had done so ahead of her National Women's Soccer League team, seeking to encourage other professional athletes' similar protests. Despite Ellis's request, she did not discipline Rapinoe after the game.

She led the United States Women's National Team to victory their fourth World Cup and second straight on July 7, 2019. The team won 2–0 in their last match against the Netherlands in Lyon, France. With 26 goals, the 2019 World Cup Champions Team tied for the most goals in a tournament. She wasn't only the first woman to win two Women's World Cup titles in history, but also the first national team coach, either men's or women's, to win two consecutive FIFA World Cup titles since Vittorio Pozzo led Italy's men's national football team to two consecutive titles in 1934 and 1938.

Ellis will be stepping down as the Women's National Team coach on July 30, 2019, according to United States Soccer. She will continue with the team throughout the World Cup victory tour. Following her departure, she will continue to work with USA Soccer as Ambassador.

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