Women's Soccer
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- jbindon@athletics.ucla.edu
Two-time Womenโs World Cup player and two-time Olympian Jenny Bindon begins her third season as assistant coach for the Bruins.
Bindon represented New Zealand on the national team for 10 years, and her 77 career caps is the most by a goalkeeper, menโs or womenโs, in New Zealandโs history. She competed at the 2007 and 2011 Womenโs World Cup and the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, playing every minute at the 2012 Olympics to lead the Football Ferns to a program-best quarterfinal finish. Bindon also led New Zealand to runner-up finishes at the 2008 Peace Queen Cup and 2011 Cyprus Cup.
Following her distinguished playing career in which she played every minute of every FIFA Tournament in which she participated, Bindon moved into coaching. She served as the assistant coach and goalkeeper coach for the New Zealand Under-17 Womenโs National Team, and was the goalkeeper coach for the Under-20s and the full national team. In 2016, she co-coached the Takapuna senior menโs team in the Northern League Second Division, a third tier competition in the New Zealand club football pyramid, becoming just the second female to coach a menโs team in the 52-year history of the Northern League competition. Bindon was also a head coach at the National Womenโs League level in 2014. In 2008, she served on the local organizing committee for the inaugural FIFA U-17 Womenโs World Cup. Bindon currently works with U.S. Soccer as a Youth National Team scout.
At UCLA, Bindon coached goalkeeper Teagan Micah to a spot on Australia's 2019 Women's World Cup squad.
As a student-athlete at SIU-Edwardsville, Bindon played three sports โ soccer, tennis and basketball โ before enlisting in the U.S. Coast Guard. She finished her collegiate playing career at Lewis University, where she played soccer and basketball. Bindon graduated from Lewis with a bachelorโs degree in sports marketing and management and a minor in coaching and sociology.
Bindon and her husband Grant, a former captain of the New Zealand menโs volleyball team, have a son, Tyler.
