Welcome to OHTSL Coaching
Welcome to OHTSL Coaching Education
This is the OHTSL Coaching Education section. Here you will find helful articles, lesson plans, videos and news to help your coaches with their training needs.
If you are interested in hosting a US Soccer Grassroots License (4v4, 7v7, 9v9 or 11v11) or a D license please contact the OHTSL DOC Marcie Schwartz at doc@ohtsl.com. Also if you are interested in hosting a clinic seperately for a topic you want for your club, please contact Marcie, as this is another resource that can be arranged.
Please take a look at our webinars page to see past and upcoming webinars that will be hosted through the OHTSL.
Director of Coaching: Marcie Schwartz
Marcie Schwartz was named the OHTSL Director of Coaching in 2016 and is now in her 8th year with the league. In her role, she will be responsible for coaches training and education, as well as assisting clubs with player development. She will also serve as the league's program director in charge of new events including the nationally acknowledged OHTSL Leadership Council, US Club Soccer sponsored USSF Coaching Licenses, Community coaching clinics and workshops, OHTSL camps, and other potential programs. Within her role, Marcie offers support to each club individually in additional areas including; curriculum building, club leadership responsibilities and structure and parent engagement.
In addition to being the OHTSL DOC, Marcie works for US Soccer in their Coach Education Department. She can be found currently teaching Grassroot Licenses, D Licenses and the Club Technical Lead (Level 1) license which is part of the new Leadership Pathway. Marcie is also a Coach Educator Developer where she teaches new D course level Student Coach Educators in their Pathway to become future educators. In 2024, Schwartz was asked to be a part of the Grassroot Course Revision Committee where she has spent the majority of the year working alongside the US Soccer National Staff to restructure the current Grassroot License that will launch in 2025.
Marcie also holds the title of Education and Development Specialist for US Club Soccer, where she oversees US Soccer Grassroot and D Licenses that are being held all over the country. In this role, she works with over 90 coach educators to make sure they are educated on national curriclum updates, course management as well as aiding in onboarding new educators to the organization.
Prior to joining the league, Marcie spent the last eight years as a NCAA Division I Women's Assistant Soccer Coach as Wagner College, USC Upstate and most recently Ball State University.
In her four seasons at Ball State, Schwartz helped the Cardinals to post an overall record of 44-24-14 highlighted by a 14-3-3 record and MAC championship season in 2015. The team included the MAC Freshman of the Year and Defender of the Year during the season. As a Cardinal she also trained the goalkeepers and in 2013 her keepers were top 20 in the country in save percentage and 47th in the country in goals against average. During her four years the team received 14 players with All-MAC Honors, and in 2015 five of those players were first team selections.
A native of Solon, Ohio and past league participant, some of her other accomplishments include being selected for the 30 under 30 program by the NSCAA in 2014. Schwartz is also a 2012 graduate of the Womens Coaches Academy. She has served on ODP Regional Staffs in both Region 1 and 2, and in 2010 was the girl's administrator at the Inter-Regional Camp in Pomona,California. She was team trainer and American liaison for the U14 Russian National team. In 2013 she served as the Head Coach of the gold medal winning United States Junior Girls Jewish National Team for the 19th Maccabiah games in Israel. In 2017, Schwartz traveled for the second time to head coach on the International Stage in Israel at the Maccabiah Games as a member of the USA affiliation. Her team, for a second-straight games, won the gold medal and went unbeaten and unscored on with a 6-0 record and outshooting their opponents 34-0.
In 2007-08, Schwartz served as an Assistant Coach at Bloomington South High School, helping the Panthers to back to back conference championships.
Schwartz earned her bachelor's degree in secondary education from Indiana University in 2009 and her master's degree in education with a focus in literacy from Wagner College in 2011.
She currently holds a USSF Instructor License, National B License and an NSCAA Premier Diploma, the pinnacle of residential academy offerings. Schwartz also holds both her USSF Director of Coaching License and the United Soccer Coaches Director of Coaching Diploma, as well as an NSCAA National Goalkeepers diploma and US Youth National license.
She can be contacted at doc@ohtsl.com.