31 Facts About Jill Ellis

Jillian Anne Ellis was born on 6 September 1966 and is an English-American football manager and executive who is currently the president of San Diego Wave FC.

Jill Ellis stepped away from being USWNT's head coach in October 2019 and currently serves as an ambassador for the United States Soccer Federation, with her focus being on working with the federation to help raise the number of women in coaching.

Jill Ellis has served as head coach for various college and United States national youth teams over her career.

Jill Ellis did not play organised football until her family moved to the United States in 1981, as there was no organised football for girls in the UK in the 1970s.

Jill Ellis 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.

Jill Ellis scored 32 goals during her four seasons at the school.

Jill Ellis has a USSF Pro coaching licence; with coaching experiences that includes multiple stints for the under-20 and under-21 national teams, and an impressive record as a UCLA Bruins coach.

Jill Ellis is the Development Director of United States Soccer Federation.

Jill Ellis 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.

Jill Ellis was appointed the permanent head coach of United States women in May 2014.

State, Jill Ellis helped the NC State secure the 1988 Atlantic Coast Conference title and an NCAA Women's College Cup appearance.

Jill Ellis headed the Illinois women's program for two years from 1997 to 1998.

Jill Ellis finished her time in Westwood with a record of 229 wins, 45 losses and 14 draws.

Jill Ellis was the 2000 NSCAA National Coach of the Year after leading the Bruins to the NCAA championship game in just her second season as head coach.

Jill Ellis has an all-time collegiate coaching record of 248 wins, 63 losses and 14 draws, compiled over 14 years with the Illinois Fighting Illini and UCLA Bruins.

Jill Ellis was the head coach of the United States under-21 women's national football teams, coaching a team to win the Nordic Cup title at Germany 2000 and to Sweden's 2005 Nordic Cup.

Jill Ellis was appointed by US Soccer as Development Director for the US women's national teams in January 2011.

Jill Ellis was a scout for the US women's national team at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, and while coach of the UCLA Bruins Jill Ellis served as an assistant coach under Pia Sundhage for the gold medal-winning US women's national team at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

On 16 May 2014, US Soccer announced that Jill Ellis had been appointed as the national team's head coach on a permanent basis.

Jill Ellis was honored as 2015 FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women's Football on 11 January 2016.

Jill Ellis became not only the first manager to win two Women's World Cup titles in history, but the first national team coach, men's or women's, to have won two consecutive FIFA World Cup titles since Vittorio Pozzo guided Italy's men's national football team to two consecutive titles in both 1934 and 1938.

On 30 July 2019, US Soccer announced that Jill Ellis would be stepping down as coach of the Women's National Team.

Jill Ellis will remain with the team through the World Cup victory tour.

Jill Ellis was born in Folkestone and grew up in Cowplain, a small village near Portsmouth on the southern coast of England.

Jill Ellis was a supporter of Manchester United, and attended Padnell Junior School and Cowplain School.

Jill Ellis's father, John Ellis, a former Royal Marines commando, was a longtime football ambassador for the British government, assigned to help create football programs worldwide, including in Trinidad and Tobago and in Singapore.

Jill Ellis served as an assistant coach for the US women's national team in 2000 and 2001.

In 1981, the Jill Ellis family moved to Northern Virginia, where he founded Soccer Academy in Manassas.

Jill Ellis earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Composition at the College of William and Mary in 1988.

Jill Ellis was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in 2016, and was inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa as an alumni member at the College of William and Mary in 2019.

Jill Ellis did work towards a master's degree in technical writing at North Carolina State University.