Creating Your Coaching Philosophy with Ivi Casagrande

In this episode of Complete Football Health Podcast, Ivi shares her journey with us to becoming a Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Orlando Pride in the NWSL. We discuss how hard work creates opportunities, the importance of seeking out mentors and varied learning experiences to create your own coaching philosophy, and a bit about movement prep before training sessions and games and adding chaos into the return to sport process.

Ivi is currently the Strength and Conditioning Coach for Orlando Pride, a professional women's soccer team from the NWSL League. She started in this role in April 2019. Prior to Orlando
Pride, Ivi was the Director of Sports Performance for Redline Athletics, a youth athletic training facility in Michigan. She was there for 1 year and 6 months while also working as a Network
Professional Sports Scientist for US Soccer Youth National teams. A 2014 graduate from Bowling Green State University with bachelors degree in Applied Health Science and Masters in Exercise Physiology, Ivi also worked as a Sports Performance coach for BGSU W. Soccer team from 2015-2017, while also doing mentorships in European Clubs such as Arsenal FC (First team and Academy teams), Aston Villa and FC Basel Academy teams. In 2016, she worked for EXOS Los Angeles as an intern, where she got her XPS Certification.