Sharing many similarities with Seattle, Plymouth is a port city in the southwest corner of England that’s home to an aquarium, fish market, several marinas, and a good amount of rainfall. It was a fitting place for Sam Laity to begin a coaching journey that would eventually lead him across the world to Seattle and OL Reign, where he enters his 10th year as the club’s assistant coach.
Coaching soccer appealed to Laity while he was still a teenager attending university in Plymouth. One of his professors happened to be a regional director with the English FA, and he encouraged Laity and others in his class to get their coaching licenses from as young of an age as possible.