Louise Lieberman

Personal life Lieberman's hometown is Los Angeles, California, and she is one of six children. Her mother Angelita is from Brazil, and her father Anthony, a travel agent, was from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She also led her club team, the Fountain Valley Spirit, to a national championship in 1994. She was named one of Soccer America's Elite 11 Recruits as a senior in 1995. She was able to translate for Lusophone team-mates Roseli de Belo and Pretinha. Lieberman made one 27-minute substitute appearance, in a 1–0 defeat by New York Power on August 11, 2001.

Coaching career Lieberman was Paul Caligiuri's assistant for the men's and women's soccer teams at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in 2002.

From 2009 to 2016, Lieberman was Assistant Coach of the UCLA Bruins women's soccer team. During that time, the team won the 2013 NCAA National Women's Soccer Championship, the first in team history. She left the program in November 2023.

Lieberman was an assistant coach for the United States women's national under-23 soccer team from 2017 to 2020. She also worked with the United States women's national under-18 soccer team at their training camps.

Honors In 2010, she was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. In 2016 Lieberman was honored with the Cal South Excellence in Coaching Award.