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Jenny Whittle

In 2013, Whittle was one of several former players on new Opals head coach, Brendan Joyce, list to be appointed as the assistant coach, but she declared herself unavailable.


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1999 New Orleans Saints season

This was Mike Ditka's third and final season as the Saints' head coach, as he was fired, along with his entire coaching staff and general manager Bill Kuharich, three days after the conclusion of the season.

2008 Miami Hurricanes football team

Senior quarterback Kirby Freeman, who split time with now undrafted free-agent Kyle Wright in 2007, was informed by the University of Miami coaching staff that he would begin the year third on the depth chart, behind redshirt freshman Robert Marve and true freshman Jacory Harris.

2013–14 Barys Astana season

Assisting the new Barys chief on the coaching staff will be Andrei Shayanov, Raimo Helminen, Yerlan Sagymbayev and Alexander Achziger.

Ahmed Shoukry

After returning from France, he insulted the coaching staff and head coach Hany Ramzy in public television.

Anthony Peeler

He had expressed interest in joining the coaching staff of Frank Haith at Missouri in 2011, but no job offer was forthcoming.

Bob Didier

In 2007 Didier was part of the coaching staff at Major League Baseball's Academy in Tirrenia, Italy.

Bob Valesente

The Arizona coaches were alleged to have engaged in a conspiracy with an American Airlines employee in which the airline employee allegedly gave Mason and his coaching staff ticket receipts for trips they never took, which the coaches then submitted for reimbursement to the university.

Brandon Tyler

He spent most of 2007 training with Centro Atlético Fénix of the Uruguayan Premier Division, before signing a contract with New England Revolution after impressing the coaching staff during an extended trial in the 2008 preseason and early regular season.

Brian Eastick

He returned to Stuart Pearce's coaching staff, assisting with the under-21 team and with the Great Britain Olympic team.

Buddy Powers

After finishing his professional hockey career in 1980, Powers joined the Colgate University coaching staff as an assistant coach under head coach Terry Slater.

Charlie Watkins

Re-joining Luton in the early 1960s as part of the coaching staff, Watkins spent a short spell during the 1964–65 season as caretaker manager.

Crawley Raiders

A number of ex-players and coaches have gone onto other roles within American Football notably Marcel Bellefeuille, who is the current Head Football Coach at the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Canadian Football League, Ian Ellis, who is the current Head Football Coach at the Farnham Knights, and also Malcolm Bamsey and Gus Romain who are currently on the coaching staff of the Sussex Thunder.

Deke Brackett

Brackett died in the 1970 plane crash that killed most of the Marshall football team and coaching staff and several team boosters.

Dennis Rofe

In 1984, he joined Southampton’s coaching staff under the manager Chris Nicholl, initially as the reserve team coach, moving up to first team coach in 1987.

Frank Burrows

He was then on the coaching staff at West Ham United, working under manager Harry Redknapp before returning to Cardiff City as manager in February 1998, succeeding Kenny Hibbitt in the manager's position.

Gerald Dunn

After retiring as a Rugby League player at Hull Kingston Rovers joined coaching staff promoted in 1986 to Assistant coach to Roger Millward – then George Fairbairn – Ged was a PE teacher at Winifred Holtby School in Kingston upon Hull for over 30 years.

Gregory D. Gadson

He was present when the New York Giants beat the Washington Redskins at FedExField in 2007 at the invitation of West Point classmate Mike Sullivan, who was then on the coaching staff of the New York Giants.

Jackie Friesen

After playing professionally in Switzerland and the Czech Republic the Badgers hired Friesen as a temporary assistant coach in 2009 after the coaching staff was re-shuffled while Mark Johnson took a leave of absence in order to coach the United States women's national ice hockey team during the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Jamie Dismuke

After the 2010 minor league season, Dismuke was added to the Atlanta Braves coaching staff for the remainder of the season.

Jeff Kenna

On 1 August 2011, Kenna joined the coaching staff at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida.

Jimmy Sharpe

Sharpe, an 11-year veteran of Bear Bryant's Alabama coaching staff, was hired by the Hokies in 1974 to replace Charlie Coffey, who had been let go following a lackluster performance.

Jon Heacock

Heacock then moved on as an assistant coach at the United States Military Academy before joining the coaching staff at Youngstown State in 1991.

Josef Vašíček

The team was traveling to Minsk to play their opening game of the season, with its coaching staff and prospects.

Kay Dalton

In 1977 he joined Lou Saban's coaching staff, serving as the Quarterbacks and Receivers Coach of the Buffalo Bills.

Kevin R. Wilson

Indiana athletic director Fred Glass announced the dismissal of Bill Lynch and the rest of the coaching staff on November 28, 2010, following a third straight season with only one conference victory.

Kwara United F.C.

The coaching staff for the 2006-07 season included Swedes Roger Palmgren and Johan Eriksson (son of former England and Mexico manager, Sven-Göran Eriksson).

Kyle Harrison

Harrison currently is part of the Chapman University (Orange, Ca) Men's Lacrosse coaching staff and plays on the LXM Pro Tour.

Lynn Amedee

After McWilliams resignation in 1991, Amedee sat out for a year, before joining Curley Hallman's coaching staff at his alma mater LSU.

Maurice Carthon

On Feb 19, 2009 the Kansas City Chiefs announced that the club has added Carthon to head coach Todd Haley’s coaching staff.

Michelle Barr

She joined the coaching staff at Dartmouth College as a volunteer assistant in 2005, becoming asssitant coach to Angie Hind the following season.

Mike Wagner

For a short time, Mike Wagner also served as an assistant coach on the Pine-Richland High School (Gibsonia, PA) coaching staff, mainly working with the defensive backs and special teams.

Milt Palacio

He joined the Idaho Vandals men's basketball coaching staff for the 2013–14 season.

National Pei Men Senior High School

Hung Chin-chang and Chen Jiunn-ming, both Pei Men alumni and notable Taiwanese football players, were engaged to join the coaching staff.

Rob Leary

After seven years in that role, he joined the Boston coaching staff for the 2010 season as an assistant at the Major League level.

Ron Rightnowar

"The major-league coaching staff made it clear that I needed to pitch," Rightnowar told the Ottawa Citizen later in 1995.

Rubén Israel

The individuals that will form the coaching staff are assistant managers Mauricio Alfaro and José Luis Rugamas, physical trainers Esteban Coppia (Argentina) and Nicolás Dos Santos (Uruguay) and the goalkeeping coach Carlos Cañadas.

Sam McElroy

After the 2002 season, McElroy left Tarleton State to join Darrell Dickey's coaching staff at the University of North Texas.

Sean O'Driscoll

When he retired in 1995, he had played a club-record 423 league games for Bournemouth (the record has since been broken by Steve Fletcher), and subsequently joined the club's coaching staff.

Sheriff Robinson

He would spend the next decade as a scout for the Mets, except for the 1972 season, when he was appointed to fill the vacancy on the coaching staff left by Yogi Berra's promotion to manager following the sudden death of Gil Hodges.

Stephen Frail

Later that year, after attending Hearts UEFA Cup tie with Sporting Braga, he was invited to join their coaching staff by then manager Craig Levein.

Synergy Sports Technology

Garrick Barr, a former member of the Phoenix Suns coaching staff, founded the company as Quantified Scouting Service in 1998.

The Boot Room

The Liverpool Boot Room was a room at Anfield, home of Liverpool F.C., during the 1960s - early 1990s where the coaching staff would sit, drink whisky and discuss the team, tactics and ways of defeating the next opposing side.

Tim Natusch

Natusch was actively discouraged from entering rugby league by his then union coach John Mills, an uncapped All Black who in 2009 joined Graham Henry's All Black coaching staff in an advisory role.

Tom Jacobsen

Jacobsen joined HamKam's coaching staff in 2000, after working at Adidas.

Tom Melvin

In 1999, Melvin joined the Philadelphia Eagles coaching staff, serving for three seasons as the offensive assistant/quality control coach before moving to his current position as tight ends coach.

Troy Calhoun

After graduating from the United States Air Force Academy in 1989, Calhoun served on the Air Force coaching staff under Fisher DeBerry as a graduate assistant during the 1989–90 seasons.

Verlon Walker

In 1961, he was appointed to the Cubs' College of Coaches, a rotating team of instructors and "head coaches" created as an experimental alternative to the traditional baseball hierarchy of a manager and a coaching staff.

Zack Mills

He joined the coaching staff at The Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania as quarterbacks coach in 2007, leaving the team after the 2010 season.