The Local University Recently Hired a New Soccer Coach.

Question: The local university recently hired a new soccer coach. Although she has several years' worth of coaching experience and is a diligent student of the game, she was never a member of a collegiate soccer team. For this reason, the new coach will be unable to build a successful program.

The argument above is based on which of the following assumptions?

(A) The local university should have hired a former collegiate soccer player as its new coach.
(B) Coaching experience is one of the most crucial factors for coaching success.
(C) The,previous coach at the university was dismissed due to her lack of success,
(D) To build a successful soccer program as a coach,one must be a former collegiate soccer player.
(E) The university does not plan to provide the new coach with the resources necessary to build a successful program.

Answer: D
Explanation:

This GMAT critical reasoning is a Cause and Effect type question. Here,the candidates are tested on their reasoning, logical and analytical thinking abilities.

Since this is a cause and effect question, we need to find the cause and the effect from the passage provided.

As per the author's conclusion:
Cause: New coach was never a member of a collegiate soccer team'
Effect: Hence, will not be able to build a successful program

The point that needed to be kept in mind are:
"the new coach will be unable to build a successful program." - why?
Assumption-"she was never a member of a collegiate soccer team"

She needs to be a member of collegiate soccer team to build a successful program.

Now, we will check the options one by one:
(A) The local university should have hired a former collegiate soccer player as its new coach. - As per the passage they already hired a new coach. This statement says that the university should have hired a former player. As per the assumption, the person should be a former member of the soccer team. Hence, we cannot say for sure that this assumption is correct.

(B) Coaching experience is one of the most crucial factors for coaching success. - There is nothing mentioned about the experience in coaching in the passage. Hence, it is not definite that coaching experience is a crucial factor for success.

(C) The,previous coach at the university was dismissed due to her lack of success - The passage does not talk about the dismissal of the previous coach. This is out of context and hence, incorrect.

(D) To build a successful soccer program as a coach,one must be a former collegiate soccer player. - This matches the assumption that was made before examining the options. Hence, we will consider this option as the most appropriate one.

(E) The university does not plan to provide the new coach with the resources necessary to build a successful program. - The passage does not mention of the availability of resources to the coach. This cannot be a deciding factor since coaches can be successful without resources too. Since, we cannot decide, this makes the option incorrect.

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