David Flower begins his fourth season on the Fordham women's soccer staff in 2025 with a promotion to assistant coach after serving as goalkeeper coach and director of sports and performance analysis.
In 2024, the Rams posted a 10-5-4 record and a top four finish in the conference, allowing the Rams to host their first home playoff game in over two decades. It was Fordham’s best finish in the conference standings since 2009. As a team, the Rams finished 2024 with 37 team assists, which ranked as the second-best mark in team history, while having 36 goals (5th) and 109 points (3rd).
2025 saw the Rams advance to the Atlantic 10 Championship semifinals for the first time since 2015. Individually, Fordham had three All-Atlantic 10 selections, one All-Rookie Team pick, and two All-East Region honorees.Â
Flower has an extensive background coaching club and high school soccer over the last 20 years.
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At the club level, he has been with the Chelsea Piers Soccer Club in Connecticut since 2012, and currently serves as the director of coaching and senior soccer director. He also held that position at CFC Chelsea in Stamford from 2013 to 2017, while also acting as the head coach of CFC Arsenal in Fairfield County. Flower also spent time coaching CFC United, which won the Connecticut State Championship three straight years from 2009-11.
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For high school, Flower was a position head coach at Westhill High School from 2004 to 2018 before taking over as the varsity head coach at Greenwich Country Day School. He helped guide Westhill to the 2009 CIAC State Championship and was a three-time FCIAC Girls Soccer Coach of the Year (2009, 2011, 2014) and the 2009 CGSCA Coach of the Year.
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A 1998 graduate of Oxpens College in the United Kingdom, Flower holds an NSCAA National Diploma and a USFF Grassroots License, as well as U.S. Soccer B, C, and D Licenses, while having English FA Level 3 Soccer Coaching (UEFA B) status.
