Manual Girls Soccer Coaches

Rick Underwood heads into his seventh season as the head coach after serving as assistant coach at Georgetown College for seven
years, and head girl's coach at Louisville Male High School for six years.
In his seven years as an assistant at Georgetown College, he was instrumental in raising the funds for a new soccer complex, organizing
trips to Europe and Mexico, recruiting outstanding players, and helping the Tigers place in the top of its conference each year.
Underwood's 20 years of coaching experience include being girl's & women's coordinator and coach at the Bon Air Soccer Club and the
Louisville Soccer Club. He has been responsible for bringing U.S. National Women's Team players and coaches to Kentucky, providing area
players with unique learning opportunities. Underwood and several others were instrumental in getting high school girl's soccer sanctioned
in Kentucky.
Coach Underwood holds the National Soccer Coaches Association's National and Advanced National Diplomas and he is a licensed USSF
coach. He serves as a coaching instructor for the Kentucky Youth Soccer Association and he has authored articles in the International
Soccer Journal.
Since taking over at Dupont Manual, his teams have improved each year winning numerous District, Regional, and Sub-Sectional titles and
being consistently ranked in the state top 10 poll. For the first time in the history of the program, his 2008 team was ranked in the 20
nationally early in the season. Some fifteen of his players have gone on to play collegiate soccer.
Currently, Underwood teaches psychology and sociology at Brown Mackie College, owns and operates the Next Level Institute and
Leadership Management Institute, is nationally known professional speaker and author, and pastors a small church in Shelby County. He is
married to Brenda and they have three children and six grandchildren.