Amanda McMullan Pierson grew up in Allen, TX. She has been involved in soccer in North Texas from a young age. She played for the Texas Spurs, Andromeda, Texas Spirit, and attended Allen High School where she played all four years.

 While getting her degree at St. Mary’s University in Marketing, she played all four years on the varsity soccer team on scholarship. She then went on to obtaining a masters degree in Management and Organization with a specialization in Sports and Entertainment, and continued her playing career playing semi-pro in the W-league, Women’s Premier League Soccer (WPSL),  Premier Arena Soccer League (PASL), and ECNL. She played for the Colorado Rapids Women’s Team, a team affiliated with the MLS, as well as FC Dallas ECNL team.  

She had the opportunity to play in Denmark, where she played at the professional level for Fortuna Hjorring in the first division, and where she also coached soccer at a boarding school and within the club she played for. When she came back to the United States, she was put on the Houston Dash reserved list, and played for the Texas Spurs Women's Team in the WPSL league. She is now coaching the Women's Texas Spurs UPSL team, as well as playing, and is going into her 15th year as a head coach and 20th year in coaching.

Pierson helped develop a collegiate program at a Junior College in Colorado, and has been involved at the collegiate level in coaching at Dallas Christian College, UTD, and Otero Junior College. She has two kids of her own, (Annika, 5) (Ainsley, 1) that love coming to the fields and hanging out with all of the players! 

Licences: 

NSCAA Advanced National 'B'

NSCAA National 'C'

USSF 'C'

Education: 

Masters of Science in Management with Specialization in Sports and Entertainment from the University of Colorado at Denver

Bachelors of Science in Marketing from St. Mary's University