Penn State Greater Allegheny Women's Soccer

F. Dale Odim just completed his first year as both the Women's and Men's Head Soccer Coach at Penn State Greater Allegheny. His passion for soccer was developed while growing up as a child in Nigeria, and his coaching career began as a 19-year old during a 1977 summer internship with IBM in Rochester, MN. Coach Odim's formal soccer playing career began at Pomfret School in Connecticut, where he was a 2-year Varsity midfield/defender starter.  As a freshman at Carleton College (1976), he was a mid-field starter. The remainder of his playing career was as an adult amateur for the Rochester Macs Soccer Club and the Rochester AMPS Soccer Club. Coach Odim has playing experience in each position on the field, including as goalkeeper for a season with the AMPS. It is as a Coach in Rochester that Odim left his mark on the Southern MN soccer community.  His Rochester Steamers Boys Select Traveling Team won an AAU Junior Olympic Bronze Medal as U-12s and were 3-time State Champions (U-14, U-16, U-17).  In 1995, Odim was the Director of Training for RYSA Traveling Teams. He coached H.S. soccer in Rochester for 11 years (Lourdes, Mayo and John Marshall) and H.S. soccer in Pittsburgh, PA for 5 years (Winchester Thurston and The Ellis School for girls).  In 1998, Odim took a 13-yr hiatus from soccer to refocus on family and career.  During that period, he obtained an MBA degree from Carnegie Mellon University. A career change allowed him to return to soccer in 2011 as Assistant Womens Coach at Bucks County Community College in the Philadelphia area.  He relocated to Pittsburgh in 2012 and was the Head Coach at the Ellis School for 4 seasons before joining the Penn State Greater Allegheny program. Odim holds an NSCAA Advanced National Diploma and Goalkeeper Level 2 Diploma