Loyola women’s soccer coach Barry Bimbi wasn’t always a women’s soccer coach. He made the switch from men’s soccer in 2007 and he said it has helped him cultivate relationships that have extended to his family.
Bimbi said it wasn’t right out of college that he made the jump to the other side of the sideline. Instead, he worked for a year at a cell phone company in Philadelphia. He said he quickly realized a desk job wasn’t for him.
“When you have the freedom in your time and life being a college kid and then go and sit behind a desk, you realize pretty quickly it’s not for you,” Bimbi, 47, said.