{"id":578,"date":"2008-08-14T08:14:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T14:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/08\/14\/new-soccer-coach-brings-us-national-team-experience-to-baylor\/"},"modified":"2008-08-14T08:14:30","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T14:14:30","slug":"new-soccer-coach-brings-us-national-team-experience-to-baylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/08\/new-soccer-coach-brings-us-national-team-experience-to-baylor\/","title":{"rendered":"New soccer coach brings U.S. National Team experience to Baylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jobson-aug08.jpg\" alt=\"Marci Jobson\" align=\"right\" \/>New head football coach <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/04\/14\/briles-to-enter-texas-high-school-football-hall-of-fame\/\" target=\"_blank\">Art Briles<\/a> has received plenty of publicity since coming to Baylor, and rightfully so, given his successful career to date. But he&#8217;s not the only new head coach at Baylor this fall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-soccer\/mtt\/millerjobson_marci00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Marci Jobson<\/a> took over the reins of the Baylor women&#8217;s soccer team in December after three years as head coach at Northern Illinois, where she led the Huskies to a pair of Mid-American Conference Tournament appearances and improved the program&#8217;s win total each year.<\/p>\n<p>Most notably, she split the past three years between her duties at NIU and playing for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ussoccer.com\/teams\/womens\/index.jsp.html\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. National Team<\/a>. One of the first 18 players named to the <a href=\"http:\/\/niuhuskies.cstv.com\/sports\/w-soccer\/spec-rel\/100407aab.html\" target=\"_blank\">2007 U.S. World Cup team<\/a>, Jobson was the oldest player ever (by four years!) to make her first Women&#8217;s World Cup roster, and she retired following the 2007 event, just missing out on this summer&#8217;s Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Jobson&#8217;s National Team experience was the pinnacle of a long playing career. A three-time all-conference honoree at Wisconsin and SMU, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensprosoccer.com\/player_ektid826.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Jobson played professionally<\/a> for a total of nine years in the United States and overseas.<\/p>\n<p>The Baylor women <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-soccer\/sched\/bay-w-soccer-sched.html\" target=\"_blank\">kick off the 2008 season<\/a> with an exhibition match against SMU Saturday night in Waco, then hit the road for the season opener at UTEP on August 22.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Coach Jobson and Baylor soccer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New head football coach Art Briles has received plenty of publicity since coming to Baylor, and rightfully so, given his successful career to date. But he&#8217;s not the only new head coach at Baylor this fall. Marci Jobson took over the reins of the Baylor women&#8217;s soccer team in December after three years as head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}