Lesle Gallimore

Lesle D. Gallimore (born October 17, 1963) is an American sports administrator and former soccer coach who is currently the general manager of Seattle Reign FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). From 2020 to 2023, Gallimore was the inaugural commissioner of the Girls Academy League.

As a coach, Gallimore coached the women's soccer program at the University of Washington and retired as the winningest coach in program history. Her career victories rank in the top 25 in Division I women's soccer history.

Gallimore participated in 21 NCAA Tournaments, including three as a player at California (1983, 1984, 1986), three as an assistant coach at California (1986–1988) and 15 as the head coach at Washington (1994–1996, 1998, 2000–2001, 2003–2004, 2008–2010, 2012, 2014–2015, 2019).

For her success as a player, Gallimore was named California's 1976–86 Athlete of the Decade. In 2015, she was named to the Pac-12 Women's Soccer All-Century Team.

Coaching career University of California, Berkeley After graduating, Gallimore served as an assistant coach at California from 1986 through 1989.

San Diego State University From 1990–1993, Gallimore was the head coach at San Diego State University ending her tenure with a 32–25–9 (.553) record. While at SDSU she also won the National Amateur tournament as a player and captained the West to the Olympic Festival gold medal in 1993.

Under Gallimore's leadership, the Aztecs women's soccer program steadily gained prominence. San Diego State had just two games against Division I opponents prior to Gallimore's arrival in 1990, but by her second season they had a 9–6–3 record that included 12 Division I teams and five Top 20 opponents. She led the team back to the NCAA Tournament and was named the 2019 Pac-12 Coach of the Year.

Gallimore finished her career at Washington with a 270-218-49 overall record.

Administrative career

Girls Academy In June 2020, Gallimore was appointed the first-ever Commissioner of the Girls Academy league. The league was formed as a replacement for the now-defunct U.S. Soccer Development Academy.

Honors Gallimore was named the University of California's Athlete of the Decade for 1976–86 and was inducted into the Cal Hall of Fame in 1995.

She was named Pac-10 Coach of the Year in 2000 and voted the 2000 National Coach of the Year in a poll of coaches conducted by Soccer Buzz.

Gallimore was twice named NSCAA West Region Coach of the Year, in 1994 and 2000.

Gallimore was named 2019 Pac-12 Coach of the Year.