The Orlando Delight have promoted Seb Hines from the interim supervisor place to the everlasting head teaching function, signing him to a multi-year contract.
Hines took over as interim supervisor amid the 2022 season, changing Amanda Cromwell after she was suspended and positioned below a league investigation for allegations of office misconduct. After serving as an assistant coach with the Delight, he stepped in to steer the 15 remaining matches of the marketing campaign.
On the time of his appointment, Hines turned the primary Black head coach within the NWSL. And now, he makes historical past because the league’s first-ever Black full-time head coach.
“After evaluating what we would like the longer term for the Delight to be, listening to participant suggestions and discussing with Seb, it turned very clear that he has earned the chance to proceed main our Membership,” mentioned Delight chairman Mark Wilf.
The appointment of Seb Hines to a everlasting function was one in all many infrastructural modifications by the group. The Delight additionally introduced the group’s Normal Supervisor place will increase to turn out to be Vice President and Normal Supervisor of Soccer Operations, as a way to commit extra sources to participant growth, analytics, scouting and medical providers.
The group additionally parted methods with former GM Ian Fleming, and terminated the contracts of Cromwell and assistant coach Sam Greene earlier.
Extra modifications are anticipated to be made by the Delight in the course of the offseason.
