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Like fine wine — with age — the coaching expect from the record-shattering program he DORRANCE DATA career of Anson Dorrance only seems to get had molded. To do that Dorrance knew he Head Coach Anson Dorrance is now in better. Dorrance proved that again in 2006 would have to dedicate all of his coaching his 29th season as the Tar Heel head coach. when he took a team that had lost five All- energy to the University. With more elite-level His teams have an all-time record of 629-28- America starters from the previous year to players emerging from high school and club 18 (.945). Under graduation and crafted it into an NCAA cham - teams than ever before, the playing field in the Dorrance, UNC has pionship team, winning the University of North college game was leveling out; Dorrance knew won 19 national cham - Carolina’s 19th title in the past 26 years. In that for UNC to remain at the top, he would pionships, including 18 the process, Dorrance swept all of the national NCAA crowns and one coach of the year awards. AIAW title, 17 regular- Head coach of the North Carolina women’s season ACC titles and soccer program since its inception in 1979, 17 ACC Tournament Dorrance has built and guided a well-oiled win - championships. During ning machine. Under his expert direction, the his tenure, Dorrance’s Tar Heels have hoarded national and confer - teams are 114-6-3 in ence championships at a stupendous rate, ACC regular-season compiled an overall record staggering in its games, 49-0-2 in ACC Tournament matches numerical verity, established records likely and 92-6-1 in NCAA Tournament games. never to be approached again and procured the respect befitting a dynasty. News magazine in 1997 about Dorrance and At an institution familiar with such incompa - the remarkable program he has overseen. rable achievement, especially with regard to its Smith was asked by Football News about storied program, it might be possible Carolina’s 1997 preseason No. 1 ranking in to think that Dorrance’s accomplishments could football and what it was like for some sport somehow fade to the background. other than basketball to be sharing the throne But what he has done in Chapel Hill is sim - at the University. ply impossible to disregard. Coach Smith’s reply? “This is a women’s Thus, when an expert panel employed by soccer school. We’re just trying to keep up have to throw himself into the process with ESPN announced its list of the Best Coaches with them.” Coach Smith’s clever retort was renewed vigor. of the Past Quarter Century on July 28, 2004 – his way to give Dorrance his due, but behind “College programs like ours require a lot of coincidentally headed at the No. 1 spot by leg - the humor, there was a large dose of truth. work,” says Dorrance. “At that point in time we endary Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith From the person who was then the win - had been surviving by just doing the minimum – it came as no big surprise that another ningest head coach of all-time in one sport to amount of work. We certainly couldn’t continue deserving Tar Heel mentor made the list, too. the winningest head coach of all-time in anoth - to be successful by doing just the minimum. That Dorrance, who was ranked No. 24, er sport, the comment struck Dorrance was one of only two coaches in the prestigious as the ultimate honor. There are very NCAA Winningest Coaches All-Time By Percentage All Divisions collection – which was dominated by profes - few human beings on Earth who harbor Coach, Team Yrs. Won Lost Tied Pct. sional coaches and college football and bas - more respect for Dean Smith than Anson Anson Dorrance, UNC 28 629 28 18 .945 Jeff Bailey, Franklin Pierce 11 217 17 8 .913 ketball coaches – to coach an Olympic sport Dorrance. As Dorrance has said, “So on the collegiate level only speaks louder Joe Russo, TCNY 17 315 31 22 .886 much of what we have tried to do in our Brian McManus, UC San Diego 20 343 43 24 .866 about his recognized greatness. program is modeled after what Dean Luis Reis, Wheaton (Mass.) 10 196 30 7 .856 More recently more accolades were Smith has done and accomplished. To NCAA Winningest Coaches All-Time By Victories All Divisions bestowed on Dorrance with his induction into have our program compared favorably to Coach, Team Yrs. Won Lost Tied Pct. the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame on May his by the man himself is enormously Anson Dorrance, UNC 28 629 28 18 .945 19, 2005. He earned the honor while still in humbling.” , Connecticut 26 442 122 33 .768 Terry Gunnett, Rochester 30 376 115 54 .739 the prime of his college coaching career, fur - Similarly, Dorrance’s immense loyalty ther testament to his ongoing legacy. Gabe Mejail, Wheaton, Merrimack 27 361 151 33 .693 to Carolina mirrors the loyalty Smith Aliceann Wilber, William Smith 27 356 112 39 .741 These are fitting honors for a man who in always possessed so thoroughly for his NCAA Winningest Active Coaches By Percentage Division I 2006 turned in one of his best coaching jobs of adopted school. Coach, Team Yrs. Won Lost Tied Pct. his career in piloting UNC to its 19th national In 1994, when Dorrance decided not Anson Dorrance, UNC 28 629 28 18 .945 championship. He was the unanimous choice to continue his duties as the head coach , Wisconsin 6 119 19 11 .836 as the national coach of the year after leading of the U.S. Women’s National Team, the Jerry Smith, Santa Clara 20 326 84 27 .777 Greg Ashton, Davidson 7 108 29 7 .774 Carolina to a 27-1 balance sheet. The Tar choice perplexed many. Heels accomplished these heroics while start - , Florida 17 294 78 23 .773 Some thought he relinquished the NCAA Winningest Active Coaches By Victories Division I ing six freshmen for most of the season. In honor in order to avoid the pressure that Coach, Team Yrs. Won Lost Tied Pct. fact seven freshmen took the field for the start comes with being the leader of what was Anson Dorrance, UNC 28 629 28 18 .945 of the second half of UNC’s 2-1 NCAA champi - then the defending World Cup champi - Len Tsantiris, Connecticut 26 442 122 33 .768 onship game win over Notre Dame. It was a onship squad. But Dorrance’s decision Jerry Smith, Santa Clark 20 326 84 27 .777 team which lost its season opener at Texas to yield the reins of the National Team Jim Rudy, Massachusetts 26 298 145 23 .664 Becky Burleigh, Florida 17 294 78 23 .773 A&M, its first setback in a lidlifter since 1983, had little to do with pressure-induced bur - and then stormed back to win 27 matches in NCAA Winningest All-Time Coaches By Percentage Division I dens. It had everything to do with loyalty. Coach, Team Yrs. Won Lost Tied Pct. succession. Dorrance chose to retire as head Anson Dorrance, UNC 28 629 28 18 .945 So, entering the fall of 2006, as Dorrance coach of the National Team because of , Portland 14 226 52 12 .799 prepares to begin his 29th season as the head his devotion to the women’s soccer pro - Jerry Smith, Santa Clara 20 326 84 27 .777 women’s soccer coach at Carolina, even he gram at Carolina. All of the glory that Becky Burleigh, Florida 17 294 78 23 .773 must be wondering if there is anything left to came with coaching the United States to , Notre Dame 17 273 74 18 .773 NCAA Winningest All-Time Coaches By Victories Division I be accomplished. the championship in the first-ever FIFA Chances are he will find something. Coach, Team Yrs. Won Lost Tied Pct. Women’s World Cup in 1991 was not Anson Dorrance, UNC 28 629 28 18 .945 Fitting Accolades From Basketball’s enough to pull Dorrance away from his Len Tsantiris, Connecticut 26 442 122 33 .768 Winningest Coach true professional love – working full-time Jerry Smith, Santa Clara 20 326 84 27 .777 It is said that greatness recognizes great - with the Tar Heels. He wanted to main - Jim Rudy, Massachusetts 26 298 145 23 .664 ness. tain and even increase the level of excel - Becky Burleigh, Florida 17 294 78 23 .773 Perhaps there is no better example of that lence that soccer fans had come to than the quote Dean Smith gave Football 2007 UNC WOMEN’S SOCCER • PAGE 34 2006 National Coach of The Year Anson Dorrance

Now we have time to do more and we need Conference also began championship competi - coaching resume. Tar Heel midfielder Tisha that time to stay competitive in an increasingly tion, with UNC winning the inaugural title in Venturini was selected as the 1994 National tough college game.” 1987. N.C. State claimed the 1988 title on Player of the Year, marking the seventh A prime example of what Dorrance meant is penalty kicks but Carolina regained the title in straight season in which the national player of the fact UNC has captured only four of the 1989 and has won all but one conference the year came from the Carolina ranks. past nine NCAA championships, compared to championship since then. The 1994 season presaged a sea change in the era from 1982 through 1997 when it seem - Connecticut snapped the 103-match unbeat - the college game. With the proliferation of ingly ran roughshod through the competition, en streak that had started in 1986 by defeating available talent and the vast increase in the winning 14 of 16 titles. It should be pointed the Tar Heels in overtime at Storrs, Conn., on number of college programs, parity was quickly out, however, that no other school has won September 22, 1990. The Tar Heels rebound - becoming a part of the women’s game. While more than two in the past nine years. ed from that lone defeat to win their fifth the Tar Heels still led the way in terms of con - Simply Staggering Numbers straight NCAA crown in 1990, avenging the sistent excellence, one of the big news stories It is difficult to comprehend Dorrance and only blemish on their season by beating the of 1995 was that Carolina failed to win the his coaching staff taking Carolina’s women’s Huskies in the final game 6-0 in Chapel Hill. national championship in women’s soccer for program to any greater heights than what they Tackling The Challenge of the National the first time in 10 years. The Tar Heels, top- have already achieved. Yet, for a program Team seeded in the NCAA Tournament and sporting consumed with striving for excellence and get - Along the way, Dorrance’s love of a chal - a 25-0 mark, were upset by Notre Dame 1-0 in ting better, that remains the goal. lenge prompted him to take the head coaching the 1995 NCAA semifinals. It is this relentless attitude that has helped job for the U.S. Women’s National Team in Relinquishing the title to Notre Dame in the Tar Heels win a mindblowing 19 of the 26 1986. In a short time, Dorrance took the 1995 only fueled Dorrance’s competitive fire national championships that have been decid - National Team to the vertex of the world’s most the next season. He took a team that returned ed in the history of collegiate women’s soccer. popular sport. On November 30, 1991, nine starters from 1995, crafting it into another Only two other schools in the country have Dorrance led the United States to a 2-1 win championship unit by season’s end. It didn’t won as many as two titles. Carolina has also over Norway to claim the World Cup champi - come easily by any stretch of the imagination. captured 18 of the 20 Atlantic Coast onship. The win came just six days after The team’s chemistry was off the first third of Conference Tournament championships since assistant coach Bill Palladino led UNC the sport was given title status by the league in to a national championship game win 1987, with its only two runner-up finishes com - over Wisconsin for Carolina’s sixth ing after failing to prevail in penalty kick NCAA title in a row. shootouts after overtime ties in 1988 and 2004. Dorrance was the architect of the In short, Carolina’s record is one of total World Cup triumph, a win with a decid - dominance. All told, the Tar Heels are 629-28- ed Carolina Blue hue. Not only was 18 in the 28-year history of the program, a win - Dorrance coaching the U.S. team, but ning percentage of .945. No other college pro - nine of the 18 players on Team USA gram has even come anywhere close to played collegiately at North Carolina, matching that record — ever. and his assistant coach was former When Carolina decided to make women’s UNC player . soccer a varsity sport in 1979, Dorrance The next year, Dorrance assembled became a two-sport head coach as he was what many soccer observers have already coaching the men’s team. Dorrance’s labeled the best college soccer team particular brilliance at coaching women mani - in history. That edition of the Tar fested itself almost immediately as it took just Heels finished the season undefeated three years before the Tar Heels won a nation - at 25-0, claimed the Atlantic Coast al championship, capturing the 1981 Conference championship for the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for fourth straight year and won the NCAA Women (AIAW) national title. title for the seventh consecutive time. Carolina went on to claim four straight Carolina’s 9-1 NCAA championship game rout the season despite not losing a game. national titles with NCAA championship game of Duke was as thorough a victory as the final However, in the ninth game of the campaign, wins in 1982 over Central Florida, in 1983 over score would lead one to believe and a non - Notre Dame defeated the Tar Heels 2-1 in George Mason and in 1984 over Connecticut. pariel way for the Heels to finish the year. overtime and becoming the first college team The Tar Heels made it to the NCAA title game In 1993, UNC won the NCAA championship to beat UNC in successive meetings. Carolina in 1985, but lost to George Mason 2-0 on the with an unsullied record of 23-0. The Tar regrouped and the Tar Heels whipped William Patriots’ home field – the first of only six losses Heels whitewashed George Mason 6-0 before & Mary, James Madison and Florida in the in NCAA Tournament play for Carolina to go a collegiate women’s soccer record crowd of opening three rounds of the NCAA tourney along with 92 wins and a single tie. 5,721 fans at Fetzer Field. capped before holding on against Santa Clara on its A String of Nine Straight Championships her brilliant career at Carolina that day and home field in the semifinals. Two days later That loss to George Mason, remarkably, went on to win unanimous national player of UNC proved it was still at the acme of was the last time the Tar Heels lost any game the year honors for the second year in a row. women’s college soccer, beating defending in the decade of the 1980s. Beginning with the 92 Wins in a Row champion Notre Dame 1-0 in overtime to claim season opener in 1986 and continuing into the Amongst all the coaching jobs that Dorrance the 1996 crown. 1990 season, Dorrance’s Tar Heels won 97 has done during his career, the one which cul - A Dynamite Defense in 1997 games and tied six matches over a stretch of minated in the 1994 NCAA championship could Dorrance turned in another magnificent 103 contests. In the process, Carolina contin - be considered the most impressive for many coaching job as the Tar Heels wound up in the ued to mow down opponents and win national reasons. That title drive spoke volumes about winner’s circle again in 1997. Honored by titles. Dorrance’s coaching genius as he was able to Soccer Buzz and Soccer Times as the national In 1986, Carolina defeated Colorado rally the Tar Heels after arch-rival Duke ended coach of the year, Dorrance spearheaded a College 2-0 in the finals. A year later, the Tar a 101-game unbeaten streak by beating Carolina campaign which resulted in a nearly Heels downed Massachusetts 1-0 on the Carolina 3-2 on October 19, 1994. The loss umarred 27-0-1 record. The 27 victories were Minutewomen’s home field in the title game. came 17 days after Notre Dame had snapped an NCAA record for victories in a season and The 1988 campaign saw the Tar Heels defeat a 92-game Carolina winning streak by playing UNC tied its existing NCAA record by shutting NC State 4-1 in the title game in Chapel Hill. A the Heels to a scoreless tie. out 22 opponents during the course of the year later, Carolina defeated Colorado College UNC ran the table after that and NCAA wins campaign. 2-0 at Raleigh. over NC State, Duke, Connecticut and Notre In 1998, Carolina had another brilliant sea - During this era, the Atlantic Coast Dame added a 13th national title to Dorrance’s son, going 25-0 before falling 1-0 to second- 2007 UNC WOMEN’S SOCCER • PAGE 35 2006 National Coach of The Year Anson Dorrance

seeded Florida in the national championship the awards stand, UNC reclaimed the NCAA and made a science of coaching female ath - game. Despite the disappointing end to an title in 2003 with aplomb, unleashing the most letes. No one knows the ins and outs of that otherwise stellar season, the Tar Heels dominant college soccer team in 10 years. better than Anson Dorrance. He is a great outscored their opponents by a dominating 98- Carolina became the first team since the Tar ambassador, not only for women’s soccer, but 7 margin on the year and won their 10th suc - Heels of 1993 to go undefeated and untied, fin - for the University of North Carolina as well.” cessive ACC championship. ishing with a perfect 27-0 mark in winning its Ironically, Dorrance’s career plans did not Disappointed after seeing the 1998 NCAA 15th straight ACC title and its 18th national originally include coaching a women’s team. title elude the Tar Heels, Carolina soccer fans championship. Led by co-national players of He began his coaching career at Carolina as were able to find solace in the performance of the year Lindsay Tarpley and Catherine the designated head coach for the men’s team the 1999 U.S. Women’s National Team which Reddick, Carolina outscored its opponents in 1976 during Marvin Allen’s last year as head competed in the Women’s World Cup. The 20- 132-11 on the season, including an amazing coach. He took over as head men’s coach the person roster featured eight Tar Heel players 32-0 rampage in six NCAA Tournament match - following year and served for 12 years in that — Mia Hamm, , , es. role, posting a 172-65-21 record. His team Cindy Parlow, Tisha Venturini, Tracy Ducar, Carolina’s Role in International Play won the ACC Tournament championship in and — and UNC With the presence of Carolina players on 1987. He took the Tar Heels to the 1987 the U.S. National Team seemingly a staple, Tar NCAA College Cup semifinals and to the sec - Heel soccer undoubtedly plays an enormous ond round of the 1988 NCAA Tournament. role on the international scene. In 1996, Dorrance’s .708 winning percentage is tops Dorrance took great pride in watching the among Carolina’s men’s soccer coaches and United States claim the first ever Olympic gold his 172 wins rank third in school history behind medal in women’s soccer, knowing that, in current UNC head mentor , many respects, he was responsible for the whom Dorrance brought to Carolina as an success of that team. assistant men’s coach, and Dr. Marvin Allen, The 1996 Olympic Team entered play with the founder of the program in 1947. added incentive. In 1995, the United States Since taking over as the women’s head had failed to successfully defend its FIFA Women’s Tar Heel Coaching Tree 2007 World Cup Championship as Name Grad. Yr. Position Institution Norway claimed the title. The Amy Burns Klah ‘94 Head Coach Wofford University United States was deter - Susan Bush ‘03 Head Coach University of Houston mined to avenge that defeat Shanna Caldwell ‘02 Asst. Coach University of Alabama on home soil in the first Robin Confer ‘98 Asst. Coach University of Georgia Sarah Dacey ‘97 Asst. Coach Babson College Olympic women’s soccer Meagan Dougherty ‘94 Head Coach SUNY Buffalo tournament. The U.S. Linda Hamilton ‘91 Head Coach University of North Florida Olympic team featured two Chris Huston ‘90 Head Coach Rice University assistant coaches who were Angela Kelly ‘95 Head Coach University of Tennessee former Carolina players and Tina Luft ‘85 Head Coach Univ. of The Incarnate Word alumna Lauren Gregg as a U.S. assistant seven of the 16 players were Marcia McDermott ‘86 Asst. Coach University of Illinois coach. This Tar Heel-laden composition of the Carolina alumnae. In storm - Siri Mullinix ‘99 Asst. Coach UNC Greensboro Carla Overbeck ‘90 Asst. Coach Duke University World Cup Team, which reclaimed the champi - ing to the gold medal, the Janet Rayfield ‘83 Head Coach University of Illinois onship it had relinquished in 1995, once again U.S. avenged its 1995 Keri Sanchez ‘95 Head Coach Claremont College stood as a testament to the indelible contribu - Women’s World Cup loss to Lori Walker ‘92 Head Coach Ohio State University tions Dorrance has made to the international Norway with a 2-1 sudden- nature of the sport. death overtime victory in the Back-To-Back National Championships Olympic semifinals before outlasting China 2-1 coach in 1979, Carolina has a 629-28-18 Basking in the glow of a World Cup title fea - in the gold medal match. The gold medal vic - record under Dorrance and only twice in 28 turing so many ties to the Tar Heel program, tory was the greatest single moment for the years have the Tar Heels lost more than two Carolina’s collegiate dominance seemed to be growth of the sport in American history and games in a single season. The Tar Heels’ 18 in doubt just weeks later when, eight games players and coaches with Tar Heel ties were NCAA crowns are more than any other into the 1999 season, the Tar Heels were prevelant in the revelry that followed. women’s NCAA Division I sports program in ranked fourth in the national polls and sported Dorrance’s unparalleled accomplishments the entire nation, and the 19 national champi - a distinctly unfamiliar 6-2 record. The two have not gone unnoticed — most of all by onships are more than any single sports pro - losses were the most in a season since 1985 those who played for him. Former Tar Heel gram in ACC history, men’s or women’s. and the Tar Heels were only one third of the great , the head coach of the A Host of National Players of the Year way into their season. But Dorrance and his U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team from Over the years, 15 different Tar Heels have coaching staff retooled the Tar Heels offensive - 2000-05, says that where Dorrance gains his been named national players of the year under ly and defensively and led Carolina to 18 coaching edge is in the unique way he handles Dorrance’s direction — April Heinrichs in 1984 sequential wins and another national champi - his players. and 1986, Shannon Higgins in 1988 and 1989, onship. Defender Lorrie Fair earned national “Anson is incredibly charismatic and intelli - Kristine Lilly in 1990 and 1991, Mia Hamm in player of the year accolades, but in many gent,” Heinrichs says. “He is very attuned to 1992 and 1993, Tisha Venturini in 1994, regards the 1999 team was a squad without women’s issues, in ways that many women’s Debbie Keller in 1995 and 1996, Staci Wilson star presence, just incredible unity of purpose. coaches aren’t. He breaks down cliques and in 1995, Cindy Parlow in 1996, 1997 and 1998, A year later, the 2000 Carolina team suf - builds team unity.” Robin Confer in 1997, Lorrie Fair in 1999, fered the program’s most losses in a season in Equally effusive in his praise of Dorrance is Meredith Florance in 2000, Lindsay Tarpley in 20 years but found that no obstacle in again Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner John 2003, Catherine Reddick in 2003, Heather winning ACC and NCAA titles. What may have Swofford, who served as athletic director at O’Reilly in 2006 and Yael Averbuch in 2006. been even more amazing was the fact that Carolina for 17 years while Dorrance was the North Carolina begins the 2007 season with three times in the NCAA Tournament Carolina head coach from 1980-97. a 253-9-5 all-time home record. In its history, trailed its opponent 1-0 midway through the “Anson’s accomplishments on the field are totaling 675 games, Carolina has shut out second half of games. All three times the Tar unparalleled. He may well be the single most opponents 446 times and has been held score - Heels demonstrated remarkable perseverance successful coach in intercollegiate athletics,” less in just 19 games. in coming from behind to win 2-1 in regulation says Swofford. “I think of Anson as a time en route to another national title. Renaissance man. He’s so talented in so After an uncustomary two-year hiatus from many different ways. 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The University of North Carolina’s Active United States National Team Connections earning a host of championships. Active Full National Team Pool: Yael Averbuch, Jr., Jenni Branam, ‘02, Lori Chalupny, ‘05, Prior to his permanent return to Chapel Hill Kendall Fletcher, ‘05, Ashlyn Harris, So., Tobin Heath, So., Kristine Lilly, ‘92, Casey Nogueira, in 1976, he organized youth soccer leagues in So., Heather O’Reilly, ‘06, Catherine Reddick (Whitehill), ‘03, Lindsay Tarpley, ‘05, Kacey both Connecticut and North Carolina. He was White, ‘05. the founder of both the North Carolina Youth U-21 National Team Pool: Whitney Engen, So., Ali Hawkins, So., Allie Long, Jr., Jessica Soccer Association and the North Carolina Maxwell, Sr. Senior Soccer Association. U-20 National Team Pool: Sarah Givan, Fr., Meghan Klingenberg, Fr., Nikki Washington, So. Dorrance has an “A” level coaching license Years above refer to final seasons in which alumni played. Current players are listed by from the United States Soccer Federation. He class year. was a charter member of the NCAA Women’s Soccer Committee and he has served as the Coach of the Year Honors Galore America. women’s chairman of the Intercollegiate Dorrance has been named national coach of In 1991, Soccer America named Dorrance Soccer Association of America. He is the for - the year for coaching both women and men. one of the 20 most influential men in American mer chairman of the NCAA Men’s and He earned women’s national honors in 1982, soccer during the previous 20 years. Soccer Women’s Soccer Rules Committee and one of 1986, 1997, 2000, 2003 and 2006 and he was America followed that up in 1995 by naming the few coaches in the country to qualify as a named men’s national Coach of the Year in Dorrance as one of the 25 most influential peo - national staff coach for the United States 1987. ple in the history of American soccer. Soccer Federation and for the National Soccer Dorrance has been named the Southeast Dorrance was one of only three coaches on Coaches Association of America. He is also Regiona coach of the year in 1989, 1996, that list and the only women’s coach tapped. involved in training coaches and awarding 1997, 2001, 2003 and 2006. In 1987, 1990, Dorrance in His College Years coaching licenses. In the summer of 2003, he 1991, 1993, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2006, A 1974 University of North Carolina gradu - was named to the Board of Directors of the he was named the Atlantic Coast Conference ate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English National Soccer Hall of Fame. Women’s Soccer Coach of the Year. and philosophy, Dorrance originally enrolled at Dorrance’s summer soccer camps for young In 1996, Dorrance received the highest St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, women are the most popular in the nation. honor possible from the National Soccer where he spent one year studying and playing The camps sell out well in advance. Dorrance Coaches Association of America (NSCAA). He soccer. He then transferred to Carolina to play has even hosted a version of the famous camp won the NSCAA’s Walt Chyzowych Award for for Marvin Allen. in England. lifetime coaching achievement. In 2007 he Dorrance also made a seamless transition won the Bill Jeffrey Award from the NSCAA to his role as the color analyst on the Women’s The Influence of Anson Dorrance’s United Soccer Association Game of the Week given to a person who has raised intercolle - Program on Soccer in the U.S. giate soccer to new heights through his or her * UNC players have been staples on the U.S. on Saturday afternoons as shown on PAX TV long-term dedication to the game World Cup and Olympic Teams. The 1991 World from 2001-03. Honors from His Peers at Carolina Cup roster featured nine players and two coach - The Dorrance Family Dorrance was inducted into the Order of the es; the 1995 World Cup roster featured seven Dorrance was born on April 9, 1951, in Golden Fleece in 1988, Carolina’s highest hon - players and two coaches; the 1999 World Cup Bombay, India, and he is married to M’Liss roster featured eight players and one coach; the orary society which includes Carolina students, Gary Dorrance. M’Liss is a former profession - 2003 World Cup roster featured six players and al dancer and she continues to teach ballet as faculty and staff. two coaches; the 2007 World Cup roster fea - In 1994, Dorrance added another cherished tures six players (five on U.S. team, one on an associate professor of the practice of ballet honor when the athletic department at the Canadian team). The 1996 Olympic Team and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the University of North Carolina designated him as included seven players and two coaches, the Duke University Dance Program. She also a “Priceless Gem.” This honor is reserved only 2000 Olympic Team included six players and two teaches at the Ballet School of Chapel Hill, for those individuals who have contributed in coaches and the 2004 team included six players which she co-founded in 1980. When M’Liss is and two coaches. extraordinary ways to the successful athletic not watching soccer games on the weekends, * Forty-six Carolina players have earned caps she is rehearsing her choreography for the climate at the University. It is normally with the United States National Team since its bestowed upon an individual at the time of his founding in 1985. Twelve are currently in the full Duke Ballet Repertory Ensemble and the or her retirement. national team pool, four in the U21 national team Chapel Hill Dance Theatre. In 1995, Dorrance’s program was profiled in pool and three in the U20 national team pool. The Dorrances have three children. a full-length documentary film entitled, *UNC has led the nation in average women’s Michelle turns 28 on September 12, 2007. “Dynasty.” The movie focused in particular on soccer attendance five times since 1998. The She is a graduate of New York University and Tar Heels have finished in the Top 5 nationally in the Tar Heels’ amazing nine-year national works as a rhythm tap dancer in New York, attendance in each of the past nine years. where she also teaches at Broadway Dance championship run from 1986 through 1994, * Thirty-two Tar Heel players played in the and it included in-depth interviews with both Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA) Center and Steps Studios. Michelle was fea - current and former Tar Heel players. In the fall from 2001-03. Three more former UNC players tured in the March 2005 issue of Dance of 2003, Sports Illustrated On Campus named served as coaches or administrators in the Magazine. She performs in New York, across UNC’s women’s soccer program as the great - league. the U.S. and overseas with several companies est college athletics dynasty of all-time. * Nineteen former UNC players competed in the as well as at leading tap festivals. WUSA in 2003, the most of any college. Santa Dorrance has also coauthored two books. Natalie will turn 25 on October 10, 2007. Clara was second with 13. She is married to David Harris, a UNC law He combined with Tim Nash to write “Training * Marcia McDermott. ‘86, coached the Carolina Soccer Champions” in 1996. It sold out in its Courage to the 2002 WUSA title, assisted by school graduate. Natalie teaches at New first printing and did equally well in its second Susan Ellis, ‘84. Hope Elementary School in Chapel Hill and press run. Dorrance co-authored the award- administrates the North Carolina Girls Soccer winning “The Vision of a Champion” with Gloria Camp. Averbuch. It was published in 2003 and Dorrance’s natural gifts on the pitch led to Donovan is 16 (born May 22, 1991). He is almost immediately went to a second and then his selection to the All-Atlantic Coast a junior at Chapel Hill High School. In his a third printing. In 2006, “The Man Standing” Conference Team three times as an under - spare time he enjoys soccer and music and by former Sports Illustrated writer Tim Crothers graduate and he won All-South Region honors studies the piano and the electric guitar. debuted to smashing reviews. in 1973. He was named in 2002 one of the Dorrance’s soccer origins stem from his Following the United States’ victory in the Top 50 men’s soccer players in Atlantic Coast youth when he lived in Ethiopia. He also women’s World Cup in 1991, Dorrance Conference history. He was also one of the resided in Kenya, Singapore, Belgium and received an Honorary All-America Award, one top intramural sports performers on the Switzerland while growingup. His family of the most prestigious of its kind, from the Carolina campus during his days as an under - moved all around the world as his father was National Soccer Coaches Association of graduate, competing for his dorm teams and an international businessman. 2007 UNC WOMEN’S SOCCER • PAGE 37 Chief Assistant Coach Bill Palladino

Bill Palladino led a team effort which produced 22 shutouts in Chief Assistant Coach 24 games. Those 22 shutouts stand as an It can be argued that the NCAA record that would be equaled by another University of North Carolina Carolina team exactly one decade later. While possesses the best going 27-0-1 in 1997, the Tar Heels won anoth - women’s collegiate soccer er NCAA title and posted 22 shutouts in the coach in the country. team’s 28 games. Perhaps even more amaz - In 2003, Palladino worked his magic again ing, though, is that Carolina on the UNC defense with a great assist from can legitimately claim that it Chris Ducar due to Palladino’s absence for has the second best coach much of the season while still coaching the U.S. in the nation as well in long-time Tar Heel chief National Team. That defense that did not allow assistant head coach Bill Palladino a single goal in six NCAA Tournament games as Palladino is a man who decades ago could the Tar Heels outscored their opponents 32-0 in easily have left UNC and secured his choice of NCAA play and stormed to their first NCAA title some of the best head coaching opportunities in in three years. the women’s ranks. Palladino’s proficient skill in coaching But in 2007 he returns for his 28th year as defense has been utilized by more than just the head coach Anson Dorrance’s right hand man, UNC soccer program. In 2002 and 2003, he demonstrating the tremendous loyalty he has to served as the top assistant coach for the U.S. the program he helped create at UNC, his alma Women’s National Team before retiring from mater. Palladino’s success in coaching out - that role in January of 2004. In that capacity, standing defenses has been a key element in Palladino served as the chief assistant to U.S. leading Tar Heel teams to 18 Atlantic Coast National Team head coach April Heinrichs, a Conference championships and 19 national col - 1987 UNC graduate who coached the national legiate titles since he joined the staff in 1979. team from 2000-05. In the fall of 2003, The defenses he has coached at Carolina Palladino split his duties between UNC and the have allowed only 316 goals in the 675 games National Team as it competed in the 2003 program from 1977-79. Dorrance was named the Tar Heels have played in their history. Women’s World Cup. The U.S. women won the head coach of the men’s program in 1977 and Carolina’s defense was a huge part of the suc - bronze medal in that competition. led it for 12 seasons, retiring as the men’s head cess of the 2006 team which outscored its Palladino has been an integral part of the Tar coach after the 1988 campaign. In 1979, opponents 81-13 en route to winning another Heel women’s soccer program almost from the Dorrance launched the women’s program at national championship. Three Tar Heel defend - very start. He came aboard as an assistant UNC, and since then, he and Palladino have ers — Robyn Gayle, Kristi Eveland and Jessica coach during the program’s second year in exis - been a part of the 19 national championships Maxwell — all earned some form of All-America tence and has been right along side Dorrance and 18 conference titles claimed by the honors after last season. throughout the last 27 years, a stretch that has women’s program. As Carolina’s lead assistant, Palladino is the seen UNC win 19 national championships and The 56-year-old Palladino holds an “A” chief architect behind what promises to be yet 18 Atlantic Coast Conference titles. coaching license from the United States Soccer another stifling Carolina defense in 2007. In In 1991, Palladino was named South Region Federation. He was head coach of the South fact, under Palladino’s expert direction, the Coach of the Year by the National Soccer team at the 1995 U.S. Olympic Festival in Carolina defensive units have consistently been Coaches Association of America/Met Life Denver, Colo. He also served as head coach of a critical cog in the Tar Heels’ run to national Insurance Company. He took over the helm for the Raleigh Wings in the W League in the late championship after national championship. In much of that season as interim head coach 1990s. Under his stewardship, the team com - 1987, the Tar Heels set an NCAA record on the while Anson Dorrance directed the efforts of the pleted an undefeated season in 1998 and defensive end of the field unlikely to ever be U.S. Women’s National Team in its highly suc - added a second W League crown in 1999. matched. The team allowed only two goals dur - cessful quest to win the 1991 Women’s World At Carolina, his duties include on-field coach - ing entire season. Goalkeeper Anne Sherow Cup title in China. ing, recruiting, directing camps, scouting and Palladino was head coach of the Tar Heels for administration. 10 games that season and Carolina was victori - A 1973 University of North Carolina graduate ous in each contest, including three games in with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology, the NCAA Tournament. North Carolina won the Palladino played varsity men’s soccer at 10th of its 19 national titles with a 3-1 win over Carolina for three seasons from 1970-72 under Wisconsin on November 24, 1991 at Fetzer the aegis of legendary coach Marvin Allen. Field. He became the first assistant coach to Palladino expanded his already-vast reper - have ever won head coaching regional coach- toire from 2001-03 when he served as a sideline of-the-year honors. reporter and color commentator for national and “For me, Bill is the reason I enjoy my job so regional WUSA telecasts. much,” says head coach Anson Dorrance. “He Palladino has two children from his first mar - is the reason the players enjoy the program so much. Bill is a big part of the reason there is such great team chemistry.” “Bill is a team builder. He has helped us develop a philosophy towards player develop - ment that encourages an informal but effective rapport between players and coaches,” Dorrance continues. “Bill is a terrific counter - balance against my fiery and intense nature. That balance makes our program unique and fortunately very successful.” Palladino’s coaching career with the Carolina women’s team began in 1980. 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lead Carolina to NCAA championships in 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003 and 2006 and ACC championships in 10 of the past 11 years. A member of the Olympic Development Program Staff in Regions I and III, Ducar is a National Clinician for the U.S. Youth Soccer Association and belongs to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. Ducar has been a mainstay in coaching U.S. women’s national teams in international events. He was the goalkeeper coach for the Under-21 National Team which won the 1999 Nordic Cup title in Iceland. Former UNC player Siri Mullinix was the championship keeper for the U.S. in that tournament, and she was the starter for the U.S. National Team in the 2000 Olympics. Ducar served as goalkeeper coach for the 1998 U.S. Under-21 women’s national team which competed in the Nordic Cup. The United States won the silver medal in that competition. He also served as goalkeeper coach for the 1997 U.S. Under-21 national team that won the riage. Twins Bill and Suzi live in Chapel Hill, gold medal in the 1997 Nordic Cup in Denmark. In the summer of 2000, Ducar served as the N.C. and San Francisco, Calif., respectively. In addition to his duties as an assistant coach head coach for the North Carolina women’s Palladino is married to former Tar Heel soccer at UNC, Ducar has also served as an assistant state team that won the regional championship star Wendy Gebauer Palladino, who earned All- coach for the women’s team at UNC and advanced to compete in the Donnelly Cup America honors while playing at UNC from Greensboro from 1995-98 on a part-time basis National Championship over Thanksgiving 1985-88. Bill and Wendy are the parents of before he became a full-time coach at Carolina. weekend. Zachary Ryan, who was born on January 14, In 1995, he was the goalkeeper coach at Ducar graduated from the University of 2005. Wendy is employed by Wachovia Greensboro College. In 1990-91, he was an Missouri in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts degree Securities as a financial analyst. assistant coach at UC-Santa Cruz. in political science. He was a Dean’s List stu - During his time at Carolina, Ducar has tutored dent and went on to earn a teaching credential Chris Ducar three first-team All-America goalkeepers in Siri from San Jose State University in 1995. Goalkeeper Mullinix, Jenni Branam and Aly Winget. Mullinix Ducar played on the club soccer team at Coach & was a three-year starter for UNC, and Branam Missouri from 1986-90. Post-collegiately, he Recruiting and Winget were both four-year starting goal - played for Inter A.C. in Fremont, Calif., helping Coordinator keepers. Winget set the ACC records for solo the team claim the 1990 Premier Division title. The 2006 season marks shutouts in a season with 16 in 2003 and in a He was also a member of the San Francisco Chris Ducar’s 12th year as career with 35. In 2006, Anna Rodenbough Bay Blackhawks of the APSL when they won the goalkeeper coach and nearly equaled Winget’s mark as she posted 15 the 1991 national championship. He played for recruiting coordinator for solo shutouts in helping the Tar Heels win the the San Jose Oaks, the 1992 U.S. Open Cup the University of North NCAA championship. champions. Carolina women’s soccer Former national director for Soccer Plus program. Ducar’s prowess as a coach was rec - Goalkeeper Schools in Connecticut, he spent ognized at the conclusion of the 2006 season much of his time traveling the United States when he was named the national assistant organizing camps and clinics for Soccer Plus. coach of the year by the National Soccer He has also served as director of Go For Gold Coaches Association of America. He also won Soccer Schools, World Soccer and Santa Cruz the same assistant coach of the year award for Soccer Camps in California and for David the NSCAA south region. Ducar has helped Brcic’s Goalkeeper Schools in Missouri. Ducar holds coaching licenses from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (premier license) and the United States Soccer Federation (national “A” license). Ducar is on both the United States Soccer Federation and National Soccer Coaches Association of America National Goalkeeping Staffs. Ducar was married in 1997 to Tracy Noonan. Noonan was a first-team All-America goalkeep - er at Carolina and is a 1996 alumna of the University. She played at Carolina from 1992- 95, helping lead the Tar Heels to four ACC championships and to NCAA titles in 1992, 1993 and 1994. She was a member of the U.S. National Team that won the World Cup title in 1999. A founding member of the Women’s United Soccer Assocation, she played for the Boston Breakers for three years. She was named the head coach at Greensboro College in the spring of 2004, serving as head coach there for two years. She is currently the owner and director of Dynasty Goalkeeper Camps.

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Sander also works as a consultant for Softsport Inc. based in Los Angeles, Calif. In Carolina Women’s that role, he works with college and MLS teams, the U.S. men’s and women’s national and Soccer Support Staff Olympic teams and several international teams. He trains them to use “match analysis software” during games and how to analyze the results afterward. He also does personal analysis for individual teams – including his specialized work with the UNC women’s team. Sander says the high - lights of his software tutoring have consisted of working with the Women’s Olympic Team in 1996 and training people in England to use the software with legendary Manchester United. Jordan Walker, Kristen Kubis, Greg Gatz Volunteer Asst. Student Coach Manager Strength & Conditioning Tom Sander Coach Director of Women’s Greg Gatz is entering his Soccer Operations ninth year as director of A vital component of the strength and conditioning UNC women’s soccer for Olympic sports at the scene for a decade and a University of North half, Tom Sander was Carolina. Gatz and his staff named the program’s are directly responsible for Director of Women’s the strength and condition - Soccer Operations in ing programs for 26 varsity spring 1998. Previously, he athletic teams. Lauren Reeves, Nicole Fava, served as the head student Gatz has earned certification as a Strength Student Head Athletic manager and an administrative assistant for six and Conditioning Specialist by the National Manager Trainer years in the women’s soccer office. Strength and Conditioning Association and was Sander coordinates all team operations at nominated as the College Strength and home and on the road and serves as a liaison Conditioning Coach of the Year by the NSCA in for the program with the University administra - 2001. tion, Educational Foundation, program scholar - Gatz was a football and track athlete at Ithaca ship donors, soccer alumni and the Friends of College, while majoring in physical education. Carolina Soccer. He and wife, Dana, have one daughter, Jessica, A native of Lancaster, Pa., Sander attended age 14. Hempfield High School and then graduated from UNC with a B.S. degree in biology in 1993. Delaine Marbry Soccer Administrative Assistant Tommy Barr, Sarah Allard, A Chapel Hill, N.C. Graduate Graduate Athletic Trainer Athletic Trainer native, Delaine Marbry is a lifetime employee of UNC. She currently serves as the administrative assistant for the Tar Heel men’s and women’s soccer programs. Marbry began working at UNC after graduating from Chapel Hill High School and worked part-time for the University as a high school student. Marbry began at UNC Hospitals in budget, accounting and payroll, then worked in the physical education depart - Brent Blanton, Tom Brickner, ment for seven years and the School of Nursing Academic Team Physician for two years. She moved to the Athletic Advisor Department in 1990, working in the Smith Center administrative offices. In 1991, she began working with Olympic Sports, including men’s and women’s soccer, volleyball and women’s tennis. Marbry is married to Gary Marbry, a 1982 UNC graduate. They have two sons, Michael, 22, a 2007 UNC Wilmington graduate who now plays in the minor leagues for the Colorado Rockies association on a baseball scholarship, and Trevor 18, a 2007 graduate of Chapel Hill High School. Susan Maloy, Dave Lohse, Compliance Director of Marbry is the daughter of Chapel Hill natives Director Communications Buddy and Marie Hardee. She has twin broth - ers – Terry, who works for UNC Hospitals, and Jerry, who lives in West Virginia. 2007 UNC WOMEN’S SOCCER • PAGE 40