Tricia Taliaferro is Head Coach of the U.S. Deaf Women’s National Team and has spent her career building bridges through the game. Through U.S. Soccer, she was appointed to coach Antigua and Barbuda’s U-17, U-20, and Women’s National Teams, working alongside the country’s technical staff to strengthen its coaching and player development. She served as an assistant coach at two FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cups, in Azerbaijan (2012) and Jordan (2016), and led the U.S. Women’s Cerebral Palsy National Team to a World Cup title. A former 13-year Division I head coach at Illinois and Miami, she now serves as Executive Director of Tampa Bay United Soccer Club, where she founded programs that expand access to the game and develop young women as leaders.