Daytona State College

Daytona State College Athletics
1200 W. International Speedway Blvd Daytona Beach, FL 32120

NJCAA Florida Southeast

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Hope Clark

Clark, who has 125 career wins on her college coaching record, joined Daytona State in 2021 from Young Harris College in Georgia where she spent two years as Associate Director of Athletics for Compliance/Senior Woman Administrator. In that role she was responsible for department control and oversight of athletic compliance, provided sport oversight for seven sports, served as the Deputy Title IX Coordinator and was the campus moderator and conference liaison for the Mountain Lions’ Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).

During her short two years at Daytona State College, Clark has coached 11 Region 8 First-Team, and 2 All-American student-athletes. In addition, Clark has developed two Region 8 Goalkeeper of the Year and Region 8 Freshmen of the Year (2021, 2022). Clark earned Region 8 Coach of the Year in 2022.

Clark is the winningest coach in Georgia College soccer history. Clark, who owns a 125-106-22 overall coaching record (78-73-16 at Georgia College), was responsible for five 10-win seasons for the Bobcats, the most for any coach in program history. In her nine seasons in Milledgeville, Georgia, the Bobcats have put 14 members on the All-Peach Belt Conference teams, including eight all-region honorees and the program's second All-American and first PBC Player of the Year in Amanda Bartholomew. Clark has also coached 47 Peach Belt All-Academic Team selections and have two players earn the PBC Elite 15 Award.

Clark’s 2013 and 2018 squads reached the Peach Belt Conference Championship game. Those remain the only appearances the Bobcats have made in the conference title game.

Clark was a member of the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Soccer Rules Committee, NCAA Division II Coaches Connection Committee and is a graduate of the NCAA Women Coaches Academy and the NCAA Leadership Academy. Clark served as chair of the Peach Belt Women's Soccer Coaches for two seasons and served on the NCAA Regional Ranking Advisory Committee for the Southeast region for three season. She was a member of the United Soccer Coaches (formerly NSCAA) Southeast Region Ranking Committee three times.

Clark’s first head coaching job came at Auburn University-Montgomery where she led the Senators to a 35-22-4 mark from 2007-09. In her final season at AUM, Clark guided the Senators to a 15-5-2 record and the second round of the NAIA National Tournament. She coached seven All-Americans at AUM, led by 3-time winner Amber Elam, six Academic All-Americans, and had 13 all-conference selections.

A native of Louisiana, the former Hope Handley played collegiate soccer as a goalkeeper at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. She was a member of VT's first-ever recruiting class as a freshman in 1994 and lettered all four years at Tech. As a sophomore, Clark was selected as the Hokies' most valuable player and named third-team All-Mid-Atlantic Region following a season in which she set the Atlantic-10 Conference single-season record for saves with 179. Clark was the first Tech women's soccer player ever named All-Mid-Atlantic Region.

After graduating from Virginia Tech, Clark began her coaching career as a graduate assistant at American University before spending two years as an assistant coach at the University of Tampa.

Clark played semi-professional soccer in 2005 and 2006 with the Atlanta Silverbacks in the women's division of the United Soccer Leagues. She has been the assistant director of The Last Defense Goalkeeping Academy and worked with Region 3 Olympic Development Program on staff. Clark earned her bachelor's degree in human nutrition foods and exercise from Virginia Tech and her master's degree in health and fitness management from American University.

Clark holds a United States Soccer Federation “B” license and a National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Goalkeeping Diploma.

Clark also currently serves as a Talent ID scout for U.S. Soccer, helping identify the best soccer talent in the United States with the potential to play for the country’s Youth National Teams. She has served in the capacity since 2019, and assists at YNT identification centers.

She is married to Richonne Clark, brother of former US National Player Ricardo Clark. Hope and Richonne have a daughter, Zion.

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Liz Manner

Liz Manner joins Daytona State College as the newest Assistant Women's Soccer Coach after spending five years as an Associate Head Coach and Recruiting Coordinator for the USC Upstate women’s soccer program where she helped lead the team to 25 wins and a pair of seasons that set new program records for wins. The USC Upstate women's program had never won more than four matches in a season prior to Manner's arrival. In 2017 she helped guide the Spartans to six wins in her first season in Spartanburg, then in 2018 broke through 11 wins to set a new program record for a season. The 11-9 mark in 2018 still stands as the program's best season as the Spartans reached the semifinals in the Big South Conference Tournament. Liz coached four all-conference and two all-conference tournament selections in 2018.

The Sunflower State native assisted in the Spartans record breaking 2018 season. The Spartans ended the 2018 season with a Division I school record of 11 wins, besting their previous total of six wins during the 2017 campaign. USC Upstate set school records in points (93), goals (37), assists (19), shots attempted (327), goals against average (1.43) and shutouts (8). For the first time in the Division I era the Spartans had a trio of players named to the All-Conference team. Jada Kinlaw (Greenville, S.C.), Abbie Ellis (Clemmons, N.C.) and Emelie Valenciano (Zarcero, Costa Rica) were all named to the Big South Second-Team. Ellis and Valenciano were also named to the Big South All-Tournament Team, another first for the women’s soccer program.

Manner assisted the 2017 Spartans to the greatest season in school history in record-setting fashion. Upstate’s 6-10-1 record set a program record for wins as well as fewest losses. The Spartans scored a record-breaking 27 goals and tallied a program-best 1.59 goals per game while attempting the highest number of corner kicks ever at 75. Upstate was strong on the back line as well as surrendering 32 goals, the second-fewest in team history, while only allowing 80 corner kicks.

Manner comes to Upstate after coaching two years for the Pride Soccer Club in Colorado Springs, Colo. While at Pride Soccer Club, she coached a pair of U-13 teams as well as the Pride Soccer Developmental Winter Clinics and Summer Camp.

Manner played at Lyon College where she was a team captain for three-and-a-half seasons and earned Daktronics-NAIA Women's Soccer Scholar-Athlete accolades during the 2010 and 2011 seasons while graduating Suma Cum Laude.

She was the first recipient of the Elizabeth Fuller Award (named after her), which is awarded to the senior who shows the greatest leadership, sportsmanship and work ethic.

A native of Wichita, Kan., Manner played her prep career at Wichita High School East where she lettered four years in soccer and two in volleyball. Manner earned Second Team All-State honors in soccer.

She graduated from Lyon in 2012 with a Bachelor of Art degree in psychology while also owning a Master of Science in criminal justice from Florida State University.