Head Coach: U.S. Under-15 Girls National Team
Hometown: Laguna Niguel, California

Tad Bobak became head coach of the U.S. Under-15 Girl’s National Team, the youngest of the USA’s five youth national teams, in August of 2005. The long-time NCAA Division I women’s soccer head coach guided UC Santa Barbara from 1987-1994, compiling a record of 100-38-4 while helping the Gauchos to numerous top-10 rankings and four NCAA playoff berths, three of which when just 12 teams made the NCAA tournament. He has also coached youth soccer in Southern California for 35 years. During the last 18 years, he has served as the co-director of the Southern California Blues Girl’s Soccer Club, where he has won numerous Southern California state and regional championships and two national titles.

In 1982, along with current Soka University (Irvine, Calif.) head coach Marine Cano, Bobak started the CYSA-South Girl's Olympic Development Program. Bobak, who coached in the girl’s ODP for 18 years, took the lead in developing the Southern California's ODP system, which has grown into one of the most consistent producers of players for the U.S. Women’s and Girl’s National Teams.

Bobak started his coaching career in 1972 with the Pacific Palisades AYSO before moving on to boys’ club soccer where he won two Southern California state titles. In 1986, he won a Maguire Cup under-19 boys’ national championship with Fram-Culver, a team that featured former U.S. National Team captain and National Soccer Hall of Fame member Marcelo Balboa.

In 1978, Bobak was the assistant coach for the Los Angeles Skyhawks of the American Soccer League. In 1979, Bobak took a job as the equipment manager for the Los Angeles Aztecs of the North American Soccer League (NASL) so he could observe the work of the late great Dutch coach Rinus Michels. Bobak was also an assistant men's coach at USC, UCLA and Cal State-Los Angeles in the 1980s.

Bobak was the head coach for the Cal-South Women’s State Team from 1987-1993 and also coached the Women’s Adult Blues Soccer Club for 19 years from 1985-2004, winning a USASA national championship in 2002.

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Bobak attended high school in Switzerland, and college in France, Denmark and the United States. Besides English, he speaks Portuguese, Spanish, French and Polish. He has a U.S. Soccer “C” Coach License and resides in Laguna Niguel, California.