OL Reign announced on Tuesday that Scott Parkinson will join as the club’s new head assistant coach. Parkinson will fill a big hole left by longtime assistant Sam Laity, who became the Houston Dash head coach after 10 years with OL Reign.
This will be the second time that Parkinson has been on OL Reign head coach Laura Harvey’s coaching staff. The pair spent two seasons together when Harvey managed the Utah Royals in 2018 and 2019. They helped guide the Royals to 19 wins in those seasons. According to a profile on Parkinson by the Chicago Sun-Times, Harvey met Parkinson while she was still in her first stint with the Reign and offered him an assistant role in Seattle.