Guest-blogger Brian Boswell, coach of Rolling Hills Estates-based Ajax America Women of the Women's Premier Soccer League, a team that is usually a contender for the national championship, is familiar with many of the prospective candidates for the U.S. Women's National Team coaching job.

For instance, he coached Carin Gabarra (Jennings) when she was growing up on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

Guest-blogger Brian Boswell, coach of Rolling Hills Estates-based Ajax America Women of the Women's Premier Soccer League, a perennial national championship contender, has this take on the hiring of Pia Sundhage as coach of the U.S. Women's National Team. Incidentally, sources say Australian Women's National Team Coach Tom Sermani was also contacted about the job; he told U.