The organisation unveiled the plan in an update on the revamp of their coaching structure, first announced last year.

An application process for coaches to apply to be one of eight regional head coaches will shortly be opened.

Once they are in place, the eight selected candidates will work with USA Taekwondo to help find 50 state head coaches through a similar process.

Regional head coaches will join USA Taekwondo's high performance department and national coaching directors to help deliver new programmes and events and to select and coach regional teams.

They will also aid USA Taekwondo in selecting state level head coaches and identify athletes who are suitable candidates to attend new talent identification events which will be held later this year.

It forms part of the governing body's strategy to help to develop and grow the United States’ programme with the target of making it the most successful in the world by the time of future Olympic Games.

"[Los Angeles] 2028 might seem like a long way away, but USA Taekwondo has acted in an Ad hoc manner for far too long now, merely hoping that coaches alone will provide athletes that might be good enough to make the Olympic podium," USA Taekwondo executive director Steve McNally said. 

"If we want to be truly successful and competitive on the world level in every division then we need to work much more closely with our athletes and begin their development for international competition at a much younger age, and our coaches are the key to doing that.

"We have already enacted that change in methodology with the appointment of our new world class national head coaches, Paul Green and Gareth Brown, and we believe this new programme will provide an unbelievably strong network of US coaches capable of both developing athletes and coaching at a world level that will give us the platform we need to become number one again."