When Michigan head coach Chaka Daley talks about being a minority, he often refers to the “five percent” of Black soccer coaches at the Division I level.
Daley, who played for Providence College and the New England Revolution, named his colleagues in the Black coaching fraternity: Ryan Anatol (Stony Brook), Chris Gbandi (Northeastern), Leonard Griffin (San Francisco), Phillip Gyau (Howard), Bryheem Hancock (Radford), Marco Koolman (Holy Cross), Kwame Oduro (St. Bonaventure), Bo Oshoniyi (Dartmouth) and Russell Payne (Army). Hylton Dayes (Cincinnati) and Marlon LeBlanc (West Virginia) both resigned after last season.
In 2018, of 204 Division I men’s soccer programs, The Black Soccer Members Association listed 11 Black coaches, 10 Latinos and one Asian: “That’s how small the community is,” Daley, Providence’s coach from 2000-11, said in an interview this week.