Women's Soccer | August 31, 2016

PHILADELPHIA – La Salle women's soccer head coach Paul Royal was recently rated the top coach in the Atlantic 10 and the 16^th best coach in the NCAA by CoachRank.
 
CoachRank, which is produced by soccer website www.allwhitekit.com, is a data-driven system of measuring coach performance over a long-term (three-year and above) period of time. The system includes multiple factors to formulate a score on a 0-100 scale that seeks to enable valid and accurate comparisons between Division I coaches regardless of program or conference size.
 
Factors used to calculate the base score are a combination of a club's league performance, conference tournament performance, and NCAA Tournament performance. The base score is then adjusted to accurately reflect the difficulties of playing in and succeeding in the best conferences, while also not giving an inaccurate boost to clubs from big conferences who don't perform well.
 
Royal, the three-time A-10 Coach of the Year, moved up a spot in the ranking from last season by registering a score of 59.93.
 
The Explorers have won their last two games, and are back in action on Friday as they host the Northeastern at 5 p.m.