Texas Tech University Athletics
McGuire Begins Tryouts for Olympic Development Program
July 05, 2005 | Women's Soccer
July 5, 2005
Lubbock, Texas - Neil McGuire, the Texas Tech women's soccer head coach, begins his duties as the Olympic Development Program Region 3 head coach in Montevallo, Ala., this week. McGuire will head the tryout process for the Region 3 team.
The Olympic Development Program, which is separated into four regions across the United States, is designed to mold and develop the best talent the country has to offer in an effort to keep the women's National team as the best team in the world in women's soccer.
McGuire, selected from a list of some of the top coaches in the Southeast to be the head coach of the Region 3 Olympic Development Program U-19 squad, is undefeated in his last 5 games.
Players from Region 3, which include talent pools in the states of Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Louisiana and Arkansas, will assemble in Montevallo, Ala. From those players, McGuire, along with his assistant coach Steve Holeman, the head soccer coach at the University of Mississippi, will have the task of identifying and selecting the best of the best for the Region 3 team.
During the tryout process, the pool of candidates will be playing four matches against the U-20 Mexican National Team.
At last year's selection process, in Boca Raton, Fla., McGuire's pool of candidates battled the U-16 USA National team to a 1-0 victory.
Texas Tech soccer will begin its' 2005 campaign on Aug. 26 versus TCU, in Fort Worth, Texas.
