It’s a question straight out of the movie “Office Space,” in the scene where the outside consultants — The Bobs — are making everyone interview for their existing jobs.
“What would you say you do here?”
Unlike the characters in the iconic film, U.S. women’s national team general manager Kate Markgraf’s job isn’t in any danger, but the answer to that query isn’t widely known. Sure, she’s in charge with leading the search for coaches that make up the U.S. women’s national team program. And? It’s not obvious from the outside, especially since the GM role never existed until Markgraf was hired in 2019.
Markgraf, in an exclusive interview with ESPN, described her job as one part “ambassadorial” and another part “director of women’s football.”
“The reality is my job is to help solidify and strengthen the different departments that impact our national teams as well as manage the hiring process and selection of our coaches, from all the female youth coaches that are full-time to our senior team,” she said.
Given her undergraduate degree in science business from the University of Notre Dame, as well as masters degrees in kinesiology…
