An excerpt from this week's episode of True Blue, Dave McCann talks to Jennifer Rockwood and Erica Owens about the expectations coming into next season, and . In 27 years at the helm of the BYU women's soccer program, Rockwood's teams have finished below .500 just twice. I have been blessed to work with so many inspiring student athletes. He wants us to give up, and he places opportunities for missteps along our way. [Be a Light to the World, BYU devotional address, 1November 2011], On our team, we often talk about the importance of representing ourselves at the highest levelabout how wearing the name Brigham Young University on our jerseys means much more than just being another college team. We are in a battle between the light and the darkness each and every day. I know whats right Rockwood would build indeed. With one final try gifted by the NCAA's free season of eligibility before scattering to various professional careers Colohan has already been drafted by the NWSL's Orlando Pride, and Moore delayed graduation until December for this season the Cougars did just that. Phenomenal experience for all of us some really special seniors, Rockwood said. West Coast Conference Offensive Player of the Year, BYU women's soccer clinches first-ever College Cup with 4-1 win over South Carolina, 'This feels right': 7 seasons later, BYU keeper Cassidy Smith has Cougars aiming for history, Colohan hat trick guides No. On the national scene, her teams have made 22 appearances in the NCAA Tournament and reached the Sweet Sixteen in 1998, 2000, 2003, 2012, 2016, 2019 and 2021. Colohan buried the shootout's first kick officially marking the end of her brilliant BYU career. Over the last 25seasons at the helm of the BYU women's soccer program, Rockwood has accumulated a .714winning percentage. overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= The poem reminded me that we always have the ability to make positive choices and see the light, even in the midst of darkness. Back then we had to do everything on our own. I must admit that the first thing I thought when asked if I would be willing to speak was, Really? Jennifer Rockwood (born September 20, 1966) is an American soccer coach, and the head coach for the BYU Cougars women's soccer team, a position she has held since 1989. Knowing she didnt have any Division I experience and not expecting to get the position, Rockwood applied, thinking, If I get it, it was meant to be; if not, Ill just keep teaching.. In order for us to hold up our light, we must believe and remember who we are, where we came from, and what we were sent here to do. "Honestly, Jen has been awesome. But at the head of it all was coach Rockwood. Bertoch fell in love with the game and now she had an opportunity to change her view on soccer forever, as something more than just a mans sport. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Rockwood started the women's soccer program at BYU and recently picked up her 400th college soccer win as a coach. She wanted to be like the campers and players on the team and go to BYU someday. Jennifer Rockwood Women's Soccer Head Coach Phone (801) 422-8732 Office SFH 206F Summary Full Bio Contact Years at BYU 1995-Present Career Highlights 407-118-45 record and a .714 win percentage Fifth in NCAA DI in active winning percentage 11th in NCAA DI in active career victories 14th in NCAA DI all-time career victories Soccer? She decided to pursue a bachelors degree in business management with an emphasis in finance, in part because few women were in the program, and she wanted to see if she could rise to the challenge. Itis something that you cannot put into words. Reading or replaying the story in its I had to stop a few times to shine my headlamp around for fear that I was off of the course. I am sure that we all have worked extremely hard and sacrificed much to be a part of this BYU community. 14 BYU at 4-2 on the season, and 400-116-44 under the long-time head coach. Any doubts or questions of her being able to lead the team into a new era were gone. Despite a new office filled with awards, Rockwood cant help but feel grateful. Years ago President JamesE. Faust gave a talk titled The Light in Their Eyes. He recalled a historic meeting in Jerusalem about the new lease for the land on which the BYU Jerusalem Center would be built. Be honest and frank anyway. Now the Kaysville, Utah, native will take her talents to the professional ranks. Though her scholastic path presented challenges, she says those experiences enabled her to achieve greater success down the road. Soon after, our van was starting to get ready for our second leg of runs when my friend Greg mentioned that maybe I should run a shorter leg that was half the length of what I was supposed to run. But we must choose to surround ourselves with light. overrideTextColor= It is our responsibility. I see my players play their best. After one year at Rick's College on a basketball scholarship, she transferred to BYU where she became a four-year starter at center midfield on the Cougars' club soccer team and graduated in finance, business management. This biographical article related to women's soccer in the United States is a stub. I am sure that we all are qualified and have had numerous opportunities to be elsewhere, but we have chosen to be here at Brigham Young University and to stand for something more than ourselves. Are they motivating and inspiring us, or are they bringing us down? American Fork's Ellie Walbruch, who helped UCLA win a Women's College Cup national championship last year, joins the show to talk about her decision to transfer home and play for BYU women's soccer, her relationship with longtime head coach Jennifer Rockwood, and the Cougars' first season in the Big 12 Conference. President Monson stated: We become examples of the believers by living the gospel of Jesus Christ in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, and in purity. "Right now, I feel we are playing our best soccer.". [I Will, Every Step (Shadow Mountain Records: 2011)]. A week or so after the camp, I received a thank-you note from her mom, explaining that this young girl had not wanted to come to camp. The team went 20-2-2 with four wins over teams ranked in the Top 25 throughout the season. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. overrideTextAlignment=. It is what we have been taught and counseled to do. After my first run of nearly six miles, I was okay, but it had been really hard and I had gone pretty slow. I personally feel I was in the right place at the right time, she says. During her junior and senior years, she assisted the club soccer team behind the scenes in areas such as scheduling and budgeting, gaining a preliminary sense of the ins and outs of BYU sports administration. From first downs to buzzer beaters, get KSL.coms top sports stories delivered to your inbox weekly. I had some pretty strong, successful women coaches that were my administrators as we started the program, Rockwood said. Here are some words of wisdom that I believe They want us to know, to repeat to ourselves, and toalways remember: You are a beautiful child of God, made inHis perfect image. March 10, 2016 Name: Jennifer Rockwood BYU employee since: 1989 My job is. However, no matter what is thrown at us or whatever temptations and obstacles and kinds of darkness come our way, we always have a choice. . She was her own person, had her own ideas, and marched to her own drumwhich was fine, but at the same time, it was holding her back from reaching her highest potential. In the College Cup Final, the Cougars met another one seed in the Florida State Seminoles. They were two more in a long line of All-Americans Rockwood helped produce. I loved it, Bertoch said. I can do this. They provided Rockwood with insights into team management and leadership development, lobbing her encouragement along the way. I had to intently search for the light of others to help me find the way and point me in the right direction. As we follow the example of the Savior, ours will be the opportunity to be a light, as it were, in the lives of those around uswhether they be our own family members, our coworkers, mere acquaintances, or total strangers. The event starts in Logan and winds through the Wasatch Back to finish in Park City. . Each new season of recruits will be a major influence in our lives, so we must choose wisely. Occasionally I would see in the distance a small red light with an arrow and run in that direction. U 1995-yilda klub NCAA musobaqasiga qoshilganidan beri maktab tan olgan yagona murabbiy[1]. We must search the scriptures and the words of our prophets and leaders and seek after the truth. With that team, the Cougars knew they had a chance to do something special from the moment they lost to Virginia 2-0 in the second round of the NCAA's unique spring tournament that cut short an 11-4-1 campaign truncated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our reach goes so far, whether in sports, music, dance, research, science, or education. She was raised a long way from Provo, Utah, and had never really been around many Latter-day Saint players. She continued to attend camp for several summers after that. Her dream was to play on the womens basketball team, but she knew reality was unlikely to cooperate. A big part of my job and our staffs job is to recruit players to BYU. Nothing gets fans ready for college sports quite like a good tailgate. In addition to playing soccer, she was a frequent participant in basketball, track, and softball. Saturdays at 2 PM Eastern and 11 AM Pacific "We knew we had the potential, but we wanted to put it all together so she can finally have this awesome accolade to an amazing career at BYU. I loved those guys, and we had a great time. Always give everything your best effort. "But it's not just their mentality. She won her 300th game over San Francisco 2-0 on Oct. 10, 2013. Which voices can drown out the darkness and fill our minds and souls with the light? Over the next 25 years, her team won conference titles. Love yourself so that you can love others. Can I really do this?. What an amazing opportunity it is to stand before you today. Im here to see how good we can be.. It goes to show you that we never know what God has in store for us in the present or in the future. My headlamp was the only source of light through the two and a half miles of switchback trails. So, too, have been the players, led by MAC Hermann Trophy semifinalist Mikayla Colohan, the Cougars' first-ever three-time first-team All-American who has 18 goals and 15 assists this season and ranks second all-time in goals, assists and total points in program history. Her mom basically had made her attend. Having grown up in and around competitive soccer, which included teams with men on the field as well, Rockwood had overcome many obstacles to that point as a player and coach. BYU had veteran coaches running its womens athletics, but soccer was a young sport in the state at the time, and Rockwoods experience with the club team set her apart. After the initial shock of having a team, being tabbed as head coach of a new program, and having to ride the difficulty of her first two NCAA seasons, the training wheels were off. Those decisions can emotionally drain Rockwood as she sometimes sees her players begin to question their ability and confidence. overrideButtonText= marriottmag@byu.edu, 16wSOC vs Long Beach State 832 (DONE).jpg. Something most of you know and something I have come to learn over the years is that your mother and father are always your biggest fans. We didnt know a lot about soccer, it was just getting started in the high schools, it wasnt a big sport in the States.. I didnt necessarily get the best grades, Rockwood says of those tough upper-level classes, but I took pride in working as hard as I possibly could and making it through.. . She is the only coach the school recognizes since the club joined NCAA competition in 1995. BYU Cougars women's soccer [@byusoccer_w], "Moabite's granddaughter soccer coach at B.Y.U. She knew it may never come again. Think big anyway. BYU was a team on the rise. Succeed anyway. Jennifer Rockwood and the origins of the BYU women's soccer team Story and cover art by Alex Dotson This story is part of the March 2022 issue of The Daily Universe Magazine and magazine show (below). Are you sure? Wemust always seek for the light, and we must light the way for otherstoday more than ever. In 2019, Rockwood and her staff were recognized as the United Soccer Coaches Regional Staff of the Year. Everyone else on my team was really fast. Provo, UT 84602 Class of 1989. As surely as there is light, there is darkness. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. It is even becoming apparent that those who choose to follow the light are often mocked, ridiculed, and looked down upon. 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But the Division I Womens Soccer team was only nine years from its formation, and Rockwood had unknowingly started on a path that would position her to take the lead. Prior to becoming head coach at BYU, Rockwood led BYU's highly successful club soccer team for seven years. Our society is trending away from the spiritual and becoming more secular than ever. Olivia Wade is so good on the wing. BYU CLUB RECORD:128-25-9; six years as club coach. Im not here to just win games, she says. We must choose our friends and those we associate with very carefully. He wants so badly to help us reach our potential, and He will, if only we will let Him. Fight for a few underdogs anyway. I will never get to see a game in person. In fact, I first met several of the current players on our team at camp when they were only ten or eleven years old. Learn more about the players, traditions, and college towns of BYU and their opponents all season long. That's all it would take. She was rated as the No. I know that our Heavenly Father and our Savior are our biggest fans. I just believe so much in BYU and what it has to offer young students and student athletes. When the school announced plans to move to Sandy, Utah, and a new school called Meridian was established in Provo, Rockwood hesitated over her next movebut not for long. Many years ago we recruited a young lady who had a special talent and gift for the game. Jennifer Rockwood delivered a BYU devotional address titled "Drawn to the Light" on 15 March 2016. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a [4], Rockwood coached high school soccer for the Waterford School girls' team and the Meridian School's boys' and girls' teams prior to gradating from BYU. Completing her 21st season in 2015, head coach Jennifer Rockwood has taken the BYU women's soccer team to national prominence and has established herself as one of today's premier coaches of Division I soccer. Parents and players being disgruntled in decisions that you make becomes very challenging.. These athletes include Shauna Rohbock, Katie Larkin, Jaime Rendich Beck, Aleisha Rose, Michelle Jensen,Lindsi Lisonbee Cutshall, Michele Vasconcelos, Ashley Hatch, Cameron Tucker and Mikayla Colohan. She also became the first MWC coach to eclipse the 100-win and 200-win marks with a shutout at Milwaukee-Wisconsin, 2-0, on Sept. 23, 2000. Each year our players work as camp coaches for young players who love the sport and often have dreams of someday attending and playing soccer at BYU. I was super excited that we could get to do this. The Lake Oswego, Oregon, native was a four-sport athlete in high school playing soccer, softball, basketball and track. Most of our players attended camps when they were younger, so they know how exciting it is for young campers to come and hang out with them for a week. One summer several years ago we had a young girl attend who was shy but also uncooperative, and she didnt want to participate in the drills or games with her group. To many in South America, soccer was akin to a religion. So please accept this blanket as a token of my appreciation. An alumna of BYU, she's led the program to six Sweet 16 appearances and the Elite Eight three times, including back in 2019. The Cougars have reached the Elite Eight in 2003, 2012, 2019 and 2021. 4) and its first-ever No. The pain of being so close to winning it all must have hurt, but as she normally does, Rockwood could only think about how much this meant to her players, especially to her two seniors Colohan and Tucker. The Lady Cougars have compiled a 16-1-1 record on the year and look to be in good shape to win the West Coast Conference championship and make a run in the NCAA playoffs. I will be strong Few people were likely talking about the inaugural season for the womens soccer team. BYU, in part due to Title IX legislation, began its search to field another competitive womens team to add to its growing collection that already featured the likes of basketball, volleyball and gymnastics. Two days after the BYU match, Marvin Richardson spoke to the NBC affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth and referenced his wife when he said, "We grew up in Fort Worth during the 1960s and 70s during. Rockwood says the key is in recognizing you cant control what other people say or how they act; you can only control how you react. . Rockwood was retained and became the Cougars first NCAA women's soccer coach. As it says in the thirteenth article of faith, If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things (Articles of Faith 1:13). We have more responsibilities, more pressures, more expectations, and more places to be, and we spend far too much time on our smartphones. Build anyway. He loves us so much that He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, who made it possible for us to live together again as one eternal family. The Broncos are 8-0-1 playing at home, which they will do Friday and potentially in Sunday's final after the NCAA moved the College Cup from nearby PayPal Park due to a potential scheduling conflict with the MLS Cup Playoffs. And they needed one kick to seal it. However, when she came back to Provo, an opportunity arose to work for BYU athletics when she took on the role of womens sports publicist. It was coached by a former player, Rockwood, and had seen some promising results. Bertoch, a native of Chile, came to the US and went to school at BYU. - Sat 2/25 8:00 pm. I am a fighter, and I choose to walk in the light.. Turning the Key: Kelsey Turnbow has 11 goals to lead a Santa Clara offense that averages 1.8 goals on 16.5 shots per game. While it seems risky to turn down a great job offer or leave graduate school early, Brian Hill's journey led him to start his own company that helps give others a second chance. Rockwood would play with the Cougars club team from 1985 to 1988, and as a senior Rockwood was placed in charge of scheduling and budgets for the club team. It was a slow process, we didnt get a bunch of fans, Norma Bertoch said, the first sports information director for the program. Smith-Bretzing couldnt help but laugh when she thought about those early years. Entering the 1995 school year, the talk around BYUs campus could have been split between many different things. One of the challenges for me as a coach is knowing that I can make a lot of kids really happy by recruiting them but that I also ruin dreams, she says. Follow Jennifer Rockwood, a four-year starter for BYU women's soccer, through her illustrious career as a player and coach. Rockwood has guided the Cougars to 13regular season conference championships and eight conference tournament championships during her tenure. I was young, I was cheap, and I had been here, so I knew a little bit about the soccer community.. Jennifer Rockwood is BYU women's soccer, they say. . Check it out online at speeches.byu.edu. Along with that comes the challenge of determining who will play and how much. "We are thrilled to have Ellie coming to BYU," BYU head coach Jennifer Rockwood said. "We had our fair share of [scoring] opportunities," said Colohan after the game. I will be brave To many outside of the program, this immediate success may have come as a surprise. These are questions we must ask ourselves on a daily basis. There are so many times throughout our lives when we have experiences that shake our commitments and cause us to doubt our abilities. Thats all it would take. Join Facebook to connect with Jennifer Hill and others you may know. I try to make sure they feel that they are part of everything we do and prepare them to be great leaders, moms, business people, and coaches for the future. _ Article written by Rachel Evensen Photos by Bradley Slade Tags Summer 2017 Leading Alumni Business Management Alumni Magazine Leading Alumni Although the initial group of players, coaches, trainers and managers in comparison to todays staff and roster were small to start, the voices that this small group carried were loud and supportive. It just seems impossible sometimes to keep up with the pace. This story is part of the March 2022 issue of TheDaily Universe Magazine and magazine show (below). "The head coach has to lay down the law, but she still has the ability to give players confidence. When I was younger, one of my first coaching jobs was for a high school boys soccer team. She hustled to stay ahead of her students, reviewing all of the course material at home to make sure she was well prepared. We then let those negative voices speak loudly in our headswith phrases such as Im not good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, or skinny enough. I took that opportunity to see where it would lead, she says. It is truly one of the hardest and most time-consuming aspects of our job, but it is also one of the most rewarding because we have the opportunity to recruit some of the finest young women who are playing at the highest level in their sport. I know mine does. Ill be true, As a child in Chile, she watched soccer every day. So much of the time, we need that little spark to keep us going.. I remember going up to the Utah High School Activities Association with other athletic directors, she says. Drawing a deep breath, the fledgling head coach set to work. The Broncos, who are 8-0-1 at home this year, are one of two teams to shut out BYU and its nation-leading offense that averages 3.50 goals per match. 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