Women’s Soccer: Glen Tourville Named Assistant Coach – Ohio State Buckeyes
8/19/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
COLUMBUS, Ohio Glen Tourville, highly skilled as an instructor and highly respected in the soccer community, was named today by head coach Lori Walker as an assistant coach for the Ohio State women’s soccer team.
Tourville, who has bachelor and master’s degrees from Aurora (Ill.) University and who is working on his dissertation to complete an Ed.D in higher education administration from the University of Arkansas Little Rock, has 17 years of collegiate head coaching experience in addition to 14 years as an age-group coach in the Olympic Development Program (ODP).
“I have known Glen through the Olympic Development Program and through coaching clinics and associations for 12 years,” Walker said, “and I have tried to hire him as an assistant in the past but the timing just wasn’t right for him and his family. I am thrilled that we were able to add him to our staff this year.”
Tourville was in his first season as an assistant coach at West Texas A&M after 11 years as the men’s and women’s coach and assistant athletics director at Division III Hendrix College in Conway, Ark., when he was contacted by Ohio State.
“I saw that I had a message from Ohio State and I thought I better see what this is about,” Tourville said recently. “I am really excited by this opportunity to work for such a first-class athletics department. I hope that I can be a piece of the puzzle that will make women’s soccer at Ohio State even more successful than it already is.”
Tourville, who coached Aurora’s men’s team between 1992-97, may be new on the staff, but he was already familiar with a vast majority of Ohio State players through his 14 years of coaching ODP Region II programs in the Midwest. His ODP experience includes twice serving as Region II head coach for teams that played in France (2005) and Costa Rica (2007).
Tourville first started coaching in 1982 as an assistant coach with the Illinois-Chicago men’s program. This coming after he played two years of collegiate soccer with Illinois-Chicago and two years at Eastern Illinois. He captained the UI-C team one year and played on two EIU teams that made the Division II Final Four.
After his collegiate career Tourville gained professional soccer playing experience over four seasons; with Dallas, Oklahoma City and Houston of the American Soccer League and his final season of competition came with San Diego of the Major Indoor Soccer League as a member of their reserve team.
Tourville, who replaces Stephanie Gabbert (the new head coach at Smith College in Northampton, Mass.), has the following coaching licenses: United States Soccer Federation National “A” License; National Soccer Coaches Association of America Advanced National Diploma and United States Soccer Federation National Goalkeeper License. He also has served as a member of the 1994 FIFA World Cup Technical Study Group.
Tourville and his wife, Paula, have three high school-aged children: Micaela, Chase and Austin.
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