Barry Bimbi has been the head coach of the Loyola women’s soccer team for seven years. He’s taken the program from a 6-10-3 record in his first season to winning the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) in 2018 and participating in the NCAA Tournament.
Bimbi took over the program in 2011 and said he quickly realized he had some adjustments to make. He said the players he had then didn’t fit the mentality he wanted the program to have.
“That was kind of a struggle early on,” Bimbi said. “It was a lot of ‘me first’ players. Where we try to weed out those players and get the ‘team first’ type of player.