Fleur Benatar became an assistant coach with the North Texas soccer program in 2016 after serving as the director of operations in 2015. Benatar is a familiar face to the Mean Green. She is a former UNT player (1996-97) and assistant coach (2000-01).
Benatar has coaching experience throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area at the club level, with the Olympic Development Program (ODP) and with US Soccer.
She was an assistant coach at North Texas until TWU hired Benatar to start its women's soccer program in 2001. In her 11 years as the head coach of the Pioneers, Benatar compiled a record of 63-119-23. Under Benatar’s direction, 47 TWU soccer student-athletes received All-Lone Star Conference honors, six earned All-South Central Region honors, 13 were named to the All-Lone Star Conference Academic Team and 54 received Commissioner’s Honor Roll. She also coached back-to-back LSC Academic Players of the Year in Aly Vincent-Evans in 2008 and Jacqueline Horner in 2009.
Benatar has more than 20 years of experience coaching club soccer, working with Liberty FC, Sting Soccer Club, Solar Soccer Club and Liverpool FC America. Since 2016, she was a coach for Region III of the Olympic Development Program, where she evaluated, coached and mentored top soccer players in the region.
Benatar is also involved with soccer at the national level. Since 2013, she has been a national team training coach at the US Soccer’s Dallas Training Center.
She holds a U.S.S.F. National “A” coaching license and is a state-level course instructor.
A graduate of Richardson High School, Benatar played college soccer for two seasons at Arkansas before transferring to North Texas in 1996. She received her undergraduate degree in kinesiology from North Texas in 1999 and her master’s degree in kinesiology in May 2002.
Benatar and her husband, Will, have a daughter, Gabrielle and two sons, Fletcher and Phillip.