Although it was her first season at the helm of the Chattanooga Football Club women’s program, Erin Ridley was not pleased with how 2017 played out.
Close was good and all, but Ridley knew changes needed to be made. So she made them.
Ridley will lead a revamped roster into the team’s fifth season of competition this evening when the CFC women take on the Emerald Force Soccer Club at 6 at Finley Stadium.
Not having much time to build a roster in 2017, the organization picked the team solely off local tryouts. The result of that was one win, so Ridley – who has 11 years of college coaching experience – reached out to coaches she knew and did as much evaluating during the college season as she could.
She picked up Cosette Morche, the Texas A&M starting goalkeeper whose sister Joselle also is on the CFC team. She gained four players from the University of Arkansas, including Dayton native Maddie Ricketts and Chattanooga native Abbey Saddler.