Soccer
Mike Montoro
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia College soccer coach Wealthy Rodriguez has introduced the hiring of Chuck Lillie as the final supervisor for the Mountaineer soccer program.
“Chuck’s data and expertise offers our soccer program the flexibility to navigate by an ever-changing world of NIL and the portal,” Rodriguez mentioned. “We’re excited to have him right here for our student-athletes, and we welcome him right here to WVU.”
At WVU, Lillie will work because the lead negotiator on all participant acquisition offers. He’ll oversee the complete scouting and recruiting operation and roster administration course of, together with highschool, junior school and portal recruitment and participant retainment.
Lillie involves West Virginia from Oklahoma, the place he served because the assistant common supervisor since April 2024. Whereas with the Sooners, he labored with present WVU assistant head coach/defensive coordinator Zac Alley and nickels/sams coach Henry Weinreich.
At OU, Lillie oversaw roster administration together with the pinnacle coach, overseeing the complete recruiting and scouting course of for all gamers. He assisted the final supervisor and communicated with participant representatives in negotiating the participant NIL offers. Lillie additionally helped oversee all features of the scouting and recruiting departments.
Lillie got here to Oklahoma after spending the earlier 4 seasons at Kansas State because the director of scouting. He was liable for analysis of prospects’ movie, internet hosting prospects and aiding within the recruiting operation efforts of the employees.
Previous to Kansas State, Lillie spent 5 years on Clemson’s help employees, working 4 years in this system’s recruiting division and one season as a defensive graduate scholar intern.
Throughout his time as a defensive graduate assistant, Lillie assisted coaches with day-to-day preparations for practices, diagrammed opponents’ offensive performs, developed weekly opponent sport plans and assisted within the weekly breakdowns of Clemson’s upcoming opponents.
Lillie additionally was a professional scouting intern with the New York Giants throughout the 2019 NFL preseason earlier than returning to Clemson as a playoff analyst throughout that season, when this system completed as nationwide runnerup.
A local of Baltimore, Maryland, Lillie graduated from Clemson together with his bachelor’s diploma in sports activities communications in 2017 and earned grasp’s diploma in athletic management in 2020.
