After spending two seasons as graduate assistant coach for the University of South Alabama soccer program, Jo Chubb was promoted to assistant coach prior to the 2015 season.
Chubb joined the staff in 2013 as a graduate assistant shortly after a distinguished playing career under Winkworth at North Alabama.
The program’s totals of 183 goals and 525 points since she arrived are the best over a three-year span in school history, and she has coached two Sun Belt Freshmen and Offensive Players of the Year.
Chubb played a large part in the South Alabama offense exploding for a league-high 54 goals, 55 assists and 163 points in 2013, totals that at the time ranked fourth, third and fourth, respectively, in school history.
The Jaguars led the conference in all six offensive categories and placed in the top 20 in the nation in goals (18th), assists (6th) and points per match (12th).
Two players, Lauren Allison and Clarissa Hernandez, ranked in the top 10 in the Sun Belt Conference in goals, assists and points, with Allison leading the league in all three categories en route to SBC Freshman and Offensive Player-of-the-Year honors.
Allison’s season earned a spot in the top five in three of South Alabama’s single-season categories: third in points (43), tied for second in goals (16) and fifth in assists (11), while ranking 12th, 25th and 28th, respectively, in the nation in those categories.
The offense was able to improve on those numbers in 2014 as the Jaguars paced the conference in points (184) and goals (68)—ranking seventh and fifth in the nation, respectively—and were second in assists (48).
The team’s goals and points totals were both second in USA history; the 68 goals were one shy of the school mark
Freshmen Chardé Hannah and Rio Hardy both ranked in the top three in the Sun Belt in points and goals, and in the top five in assists. Hannah became the second consecutive Jaguar to earn the league’s freshman and offensive player of the year, and her goal (20) and point (47) totals were second in school history.
Faced with a much-tougher schedule in 2015, South Alabama still paced the Sun Belt in all six offensive categories with 61 goals, 56 assists and 178 points, all of which rank in the top three in the school record books.
The Jags had three players in the top six in the SBC in both goals and points, and three of the top eight in assists.
Chubb played four seasons under Winkworth at North Alabama, each season earning all-South Region designation from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.
Before her collegiate career with the Lions, Chubb played for Reading FC Women from 2006-09, helping lead the fledgling program to a Southern Region Premier Division title in its first year of existence. The club gained promotion to the premier levels of women’s football the following season after an unbeaten campaign saw the outfit win the South West Combination League to become South West England Champions.
Prior to her term at Reading FC, Chubb attended Chelsea Football Club’s Girls’ Center for Excellence from 2002-06. At UNA, Chubb was four times named to the all-Gulf South Conference first team, twice named all-GSC Tournament and, in 2012, she was named GSC Tournament MVP. In 2011, she was named Academic All-GSC. As a player, Chubb was paramount for the Lions over a four-year span that saw the squad make four NCAA Regional appearances and claim the program’s first-ever GSC Tournament title.
Chubb received a bachelor’s degree in communication arts from UNA in May 2013 and earned a master’s degree from South Alabama in health education in May 2015. She holds USSF E and D Coaching Licenses, USSF Goalkeeping Licenses 1 and 2 and an AHSAA Referee certificate. From September 2012 until her appointment at USA, Chubb served as an Olympic Development Program coach in Decatur, Ala. Beginning in 2010, she developed coaching experience at Paul Harbin Soccer Camps and Graham Winkworth Residential Soccer Camps.
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