Bio

Dan Grant enters his second season as the Head Women's Soccer Coach.

Grant played intramural soccer for the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, then went on to play for the New Jersey Rangers Soccer Club in the United Soccer League (USL), now known as Major League Soccer. He has been involved in the Pittsburgh Dynamo Youth Soccer program and was director of coaching and player development for Sewickley Area Soccer.

He currently holds that same position with the Hotspurs Classic Soccer Club, official partner of the Riverhounds professional soccer team. As part of a Soccer Goodwill visit, he took area youth soccer players on a tour of the United Kingdom where they trained at the Arsenal Soccer School and the Hearts Soccer Club and played several youth soccer squads.

Grant, a United States Coach at the "D" level, is a member of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America and is an emergency medical technician. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Portsmouth and has completed post-graduate work in business at Carnegie Mellon University.

He is a chartered engineer and a member of the British Computer Society as well as a member of the British American Business Council and the Southside Chamber of Commerce. Grant, a resident of Sewickley, is the owner of Intelligent Safety Solutions and Parallel Group.

Grant looks to continue to build the fledgling program in 2011.