HEAD COACH ANSON DORRANCE: CAROLINA WOMEN’S SOCCER

When an expert panel employed by ESPN Dorrance’s loyalty to Carolina is also similar national titles with NCAA championship game announced its list of the Best Coaches of the to the loyalty Smith had for his adopted school. wins in 1982 over Central Florida, in 1983 over Past 25 Years on July 28, 2004, it certainly was A little over a decade ago, some people con- George Mason and in 1984 over Connecticut. no surprise when that list was headed by leg- sidered Dorrance’s 1994 decision not to contin- The Tar Heels made it to the NCAA title game endary University of North Carolina basketball ue as the head coach of the U.S. National in 1985, but lost to George Mason 2-0 on the coach Dean Smith. Also on Women’s Soccer Team to be an act of extreme Patriots’ home field in the first of only six times the list was another famed humility. Others thought that he relinquished that Carolina has lost an NCAA Tournament Tar Heel mentor, maybe not the honor in order to avoid the pressure that game. as well known nationally, comes with being the leader of what was then A String of Nine Straight Championships but certainly just as worthy the defending World Cup championship squad. That title game loss to George Mason, of selection — Anson But dig just a little deeper and you will find Dorrance. Dorrance was that, for Dorrance, yielding the National Team’s one of only two coaches on coaching reins had little, if anything, to do with the prestigious list, which its potential coaching burden or his modesty. was dominated by profes- Dorrance chose not to return as head coach sional coaches and college of the National Team because of his devotion to football and basketball coaches, to coach an the women’s soccer program at Carolina. Even Olympic sport on the collegiate level. all of the glory that came with coaching the More recently, Dorrance reaped further United States to the gold medal in the first-ever accolades with his induction into the North FIFA Women’s World Cup in 1991 was not Carolina Sports Hall of Fame on May 19, 2005. enough to pull Dorrance away from working Dorrance earned the honor while still in the full-time with the Tar Heels. He wanted to prime of his college coaching career. maintain the level of excellence that soccer These are fitting honors for Dorrance, who in fans had come to expect from Carolina’s 2003 did one of his best coaching jobs as the record-shattering program. And to do that, head mentor of the North Carolina women’s Dorrance knew that he would have to dedicate soccer program, piloting UNC to its 18th nation- all of his coaching energy to the University. It al championship. Dorrance was justly honored was obvious that the playing field in the college as the consensus National Coach of the Year in game was leveling out and for UNC to remain 2003 as Carolina ran the table to finish 27-0-0, an elite program, he would have to throw him- the first college women’s soccer team to go self into the process with renewed vigor. undefeated and untied in a season since the “College programs like ours require a lot of Tar Heels did so in 1993. work,” says Dorrance. “At that point in time we So in the fall of 2005, as Dorrance prepares had been getting by just doing the minimum to begin his 27th season as the head women’s amount of work. We certainly couldn’t continue soccer coach at Carolina, even he must be to be successful by doing just the minimum. wondering what there is left to be accom- Now we have time to do more and we need that remarkably, was the last time the Tar Heels lost plished. Chances are he will find something. time to stay competitive in an increasingly any game in the decade of the 1980s. Fitting Accolades From Basketball’s tough college game.” Beginning with the season opener in 1986 and Winningest Coach A prime example of what Dorrance meant is continuing through the NCAA final in 1989, Dean Smith, the head basketball coach at the fact UNC has only captured three of the Dorrance’s Tar Heels won 89 games, tied six Carolina from 1961-97 and the man who past seven NCAA championships. Of course, matches and lost zero times. Meanwhile, unseated Kentucky’s Adolph Rupp as the win- no one else has won more than one during that Carolina continued to mow down opponents ningest NCAA Division I college basketball same period of time. and win national titles. In 1986, Carolina coach in history, has always been amongst Some Staggering Numbers defeated Colorado College 2-0 in the finals. A Anson’s admirers and he shared the Top 25 It is difficult to comprehend Dorrance and his year later, the Tar Heels downed coaches honor from ESPN with Dorrance in coaching staff taking Carolina’s women’s pro- Massachusetts 1-0 on the Minutewomen’s 2004. gram to greater heights than they have already home field in the title game. The 1988 cam- Smith, arguably the most famous employee achieved. The Tar Heels have won 18 of the 24 paign saw the Tar Heels defeat NC State 4-1 in in the history of the University of North national championships which have been the title game in Chapel Hill. A year later, Carolina, was asked by the Football News decided in the history of collegiate women’s Carolina defeated Colorado College 2-0 at about Carolina’s 1997 preseason No. 1 ranking soccer. Only one other school in the country Raleigh. in football and what it was like for some sport has won as many as two titles. Carolina has During this era, the Atlantic Coast other than basketball to be sharing the throne also captured 16 of the 18 Atlantic Coast Conference also began championship competi- at the University. Conference championships since the sport was tion with UNC winning the inaugural title in Coach Smith’s reply? “This is a women’s given title status by the league in 1987, failing 1987. N.C. State claimed the 1988 title on soccer school. We’re just trying to keep up with to win only in penalty kick shootouts after over- penalty kicks but Carolina regained the title in them.” Coach Smith’s clever retort was a way time ties in 1988 and 2004. Carolina’s is a 1989 and has won all but one conference to give Anson his due, knowing that Anson him- record of total dominance. All told the Tar championship since then. self is amongst the biggest of all Dean Smith Heels are 579-26-17 in the 26-year history of The long unbeaten streak that began in 1986 fans. the program, a winning percentage of .945 per- continued into the 1990 season and ended only From the winningest head coach of all-time cent. No other college program has come after a record 103 consecutive games were in one sport to the winningest head coach of all- close to matching that record — ever. played without a Carolina defeat. Connecticut time in another sport, the comment seemed to When Carolina decided to make women’s ended the unbeaten streak by defeating the Tar Dorrance like the ultimate compliment. And soccer a varsity sport in 1979, Dorrance Heels in a regular-season match in overtime at Anson himself felt humbled by it. There is no became a two-sport head coach. Dorrance’s Storrs, Conn, on September 22, 1990. The Tar human being on Earth who harbors more brilliance at coaching women manifested itself Heels rebounded from that single defeat and respect for Dean Smith than Anson Dorrance. almost immediately as it took just three years won their fifth straight NCAA crown in 1990, As Anson has said, “So much of what we have before the Tar Heels won a national champi- ironically beating the Huskies in the final game tried to do in our program is modeled after what onship, capturing the 1981 Association for 6-0 in Chapel Hill. Dean Smith has done and accomplished. To Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) Tackling The Challenge of the National have our program compared favorably to his by national title. Team the man himself is enormously humbling.” Carolina went on to make it four straight Along the way, his love of a challenge led 2005 CAROLINA WOMEN’S SOCCER MEDIA GUIDE: PAGE 1 CAROLINA WOMEN’S SOCCER: HEAD COACH ANSON DORRANCE

him to take the head coaching job for the U.S. 1995 NCAA semifinals on Carolina’s own The World Cup Team’s performance which Women’s National Team in 1986, replacing Fetzer Field. resulted in winning back the championship it Mike Ryan at the helm. Dorrance wasted no After relinquishing the title to Notre Dame in had won in 1991 but relinquished in 1995 had time in taking the National Team to the apex of 1995, the 1996 season proved that Dorrance’s much to do with the contributions Dorrance has the world’s most popular sport. On November enthusiasm for his craft hadn’t waned whatso- made to the sport of women’s soccer down 30, 1991, half a world away from his beloved ever. He took a team that returned nine through the years. Tar Heel team which at the time had just fin- starters from 1995 and molded it into another Back-To-Back National Championships ished competing in the ACC and NCAA championship unit by season’s end. It didn’t Basking in the glow of the World Cup title Tournaments, Dorrance led the United States come easily by any stretch of the imagination. which featured so many Tar Heel ties, to a 2-1 win over Norway to claim the World The team’s chemistry suffered greatly in the Carolina’s collegiate dominance seemed to be Cup championship. first half of the season and in the ninth game of in dire straits just weeks later when eight Dorrance was the master architect of that the campaign Notre Dame defeated the Tar games into the 1999 season the Tar Heels American triumph, a win hued Carolina Blue in Heels 2-1 in overtime. However, just a few were ranked fourth in the national polls with a many ways. Not only was Dorrance coaching weeks later, the Tar Heels swept past William & 6-2 record. After dropping early-season deci- the U.S. team, but nine of the 18 players on Mary, James Madison and Florida in the open- sions to Penn State and Santa Clara, UNC had Team USA played collegiately at North Carolina ing three rounds of the NCAA tourney before lost in the same season twice for the first time and his assistant coach was former UNC play- outlasting an outstanding Santa Clara team on since 1985. But Dorrance and his coaching er Lauren Gregg. Astoundingly, Dorrance had its home field in the semifinals. Then, in a most staff retooled the Tar Heels offensively and already seized yet another championship victo- entertaining NCAA women’s soccer champi- defensively and led a young Carolina team to ry earlier that week. On November 24, 1991, onship game, UNC dethroned defending cham- 18 successive wins and yet another national assistant coach Bill Palladino guided Carolina pion Notre Dame 1-0 in overtime to claim the championship. Although defender Lorrie Fair to a 3-1 win over Wisconsin to take the NCAA 1996 crown. earned National Player of the Year accolades, championship for the sixth year in a row. A Dynamite Defense in 1997 the 1999 team was in many regards a squad Dorrance assembled what many soccer After regaining the national championship without star presence. observers have labeled the best college soccer with the 1996 team, Dorrance turned in anoth- The 2000 Carolina team suffered the pro- team in history in 1992. The Tar Heels finished the season undefeated at 25-0, claimed the Atlantic Coast Conference championship for the fourth straight year and won the NCAA title for the seventh consecutive time. Carolina’s 9- 1 NCAA championship game triumph over Duke was as thorough and as complete as the final score would lead one to believe. In 1993, UNC again won the NCAA champi- onship with an unblemished record of 23-0. The Tar Heels shut out George Mason 6-0 before what was then a collegiate women’s soccer record crowd of 5,721 fans at Fetzer Field. Capping her brilliant career at Carolina that day, Mia Hamm earned for the second straight year consensus national player-of-the- year accolades as she sparked to the ‘93 team to victory. 101 Games in a Row Unbeaten, Untied Amongst all the coaching jobs that Dorrance has done during his career, perhaps the most impressive one was that which culminated in er magnificent coaching job as the Tar Heels gram’s most losses in a season in 20 years but the 1994 NCAA championship. That title drive returned to the winner’s circle again in 1997. somehow persevered to again win ACC and spoke volumes about Dorrance’s coaching Honored by Soccer Buzz and by Soccer Times NCAA titles. What may have been even more genius as he was able to pull together the Tar as the National Coach of the Year, Dorrance amazing was the fact that three times in the Heels after arch-rival Duke ended a 101-game spearheaded a Carolina campaign which NCAA Tournament Carolina trailed its oppo- unbeaten streak by beating Carolina 3-2 on resulted in a 27-0-1 record. The 27 victories nent 1-0 midway through the second half. All October 19, 1994. UNC ran the table after that were a school and NCAA record for victories in three times the Tar Heels came from behind to and NCAA wins over NC State, Duke, a season and UNC tied its own school and win 2-1 in regulation time en route to the nation- Connecticut and Notre Dame brought a 13th NCAA records by shutting out 22 opponents al title. national title to Dorrance’s ever-growing during the course of the campaign. After a two-year hiatus from the winner’s cir- resume. Midfielder Tisha Venturini was select- In 1998, Carolina had another brilliant sea- cle, UNC reclaimed the NCAA title in 2003 with ed as the 1994 National Player of the Year. It son, going 25-1 but falling 1-0 to second-seed- the most dominant college soccer team in 10 was the seventh straight season in which the ed Florida in the national championship game. years. Carolina became the first team since Tar Heels had a player selected as the national Despite the disappointing end to an otherwise the Tar Heels of 1993 to go undefeated and player of the year. brilliant season, the Tar Heels outscored their untied with a 27-0-0 mark, winning its 15th The 1994 season also marked the last year opponents 98-7 on the year and won their 10th straight ACC title and its 18th national champi- in a long time in which there was one truly dom- successive ACC championship. onship overall. Led by co-National Players of inant collegiate women’s soccer team. With the While recovering from the disappointment of the Year Lindsay Tarpley and Catherine proliferation of talent and the vast increase in not gaining the 1998 NCAA title, Carolina soc- Reddick, Carolina outscored its opponents the number of college programs, parity was cer fans took great heart in the performance of 132-11 on the season, including an amazing quickly becoming a part of the women’s game. the 1999 U.S. National Team which competed 32-0 in six NCAA Tournament matches. Nevertheless, one of the big news stories of in the Women’s World Cup. The 20-person Carolina’s Role in International Play 1995 was that Carolina failed to win the nation- roster featured eight Tar Heel players — Mia The role of Tar Heel soccer on the interna- al championship in women’s soccer for the first Hamm, Kristine Lilly, Carla Overbeck, Cindy tional scene is rather amazing as the presence time in 10 years. The Tar Heels, top-seeded in Parlow, Tisha Venturini, Tracy Ducar, Lorrie of Carolina players on the U.S. National Team the NCAA Tournament and sporting a 25-0 Fair and Tiffany Roberts — and U.S. assistant has become a staple. In 1996, Dorrance took mark, were upset by Notre Dame 1-0 in the coach Lauren Gregg was also a UNC alumna. great pride in watching the United States claim PAGE 2: 2005 CAROLINA WOMEN’S SOCCER MEDIA GUIDE HEAD COACH ANSON DORRANCE: CAROLINA WOMEN’S SOCCER the first ever Olympic gold medal in women’s Ironically, Dorrance’s career plans did not won the NSCAA’s Walt Chyzowych Award for soccer, knowing all the while that he was the originally include coaching a women’s team. lifetime coaching achievement. chief architect of the success of that team. He began his coaching career at Carolina as Honors from His Peers at Carolina The 1996 Olympic Team entered play with the designated head coach for the men’s team In 1988, Dorrance was inducted into the added incentive. In 1995, the United States in 1976 during Marvin Allen’s last year as head Order of the Golden Fleece, Carolina’s highest had failed to successfully defend its FIFA coach. He took over as head men’s coach the honorary society which includes Carolina stu- Women’s World Cup Championship as Norway following year and served for 12 years in that dents, faculty and staff. claimed the title. The United States was deter- role, posting a 172-65-21 record. His team won In 1994, Dorrance added another phenome- mined to avenge that defeat on home soil in the the ACC Tournament championship in 1987 nal honor when the athletic department at the first Olympic women’s soccer tournament. The and he took the Tar Heels to the 1987 NCAA University of North Carolina designated him as U.S. Olympic team featured two assistant College Cup semifinals and to the second a “Priceless Gem.” This honor is reserved only coaches who were former Carolina players round of the 1988 NCAA Tournament. for those individuals who have contributed in while seven of 16 players were Carolina stars. Dorrance’s .708 winning percentage is tops extraordinary ways to the successful athletic The U.S. avenged its 1995 Women’s World among Carolina’s men’s soccer coaches and climate at the University. It is usually bestowed Cup loss to Norway by winning 2-1 in sudden his 172 wins rank third in school history behind upon an individual at the time of his or her death overtime in the Olympic semifinals and current UNC head mentor Elmar Bolowich, who retirement. then the team struck gold when it outlasted Dorrance brought to Carolina as an assistant In 1995, Dorrance’s program was profiled in men’s coach, and the legendary Dr. Marvin a full-length documentary film entitled, Allen. “Dynasty.” The movie focused in particular on Since taking over as the women’s head the Tar Heels’ amazing nine-year national coach in 1979, Carolina has a 579-26-17 championship run from 1986 through 1994 and record under Dorrance and only twice in 26 it included in-depth interviews with both current years have the Tar Heels lost more than two and former Tar Heel players. In the fall of 2003, games in a single season. The Tar Heels’ 17 Sports Illustrated On Campus named UNC’s NCAA crowns are more than any other women’s soccer program as the greatest col- women’s NCAA Division I sports program in the nation Tar Heel Coaching Tree 2005 and the 18 national champi- Name Yr. Position Institution onships are more than any Amy Burns Klah ‘93 Head Coach Wofford University single sports program in ACC Susan Bush ‘02 Asst. Coach University of Houston history, men’s or women’s. Shanna Caldwell ‘01 Asst. Coach University of Oklahoma A Host of National Robin Confer ‘97 Asst. Coach University of Georgia Players of the Year Dawn Crow ‘94 Asst. Coach Fairfield University Sarah Dacey ‘96 Asst. Coach Babson College Over the years, 13 different Meagan Dougherty ‘93 Head Coach SUNY Buffalo Tar Heels have been named Tracy Ducar ‘95 Head Coach Greensboro College National Players of the Year Chris Huston ‘89 Head Coach Rice University during the program’s history Pam Kalinoski ‘91 Head Coach University of San Francisco — April Heinrichs in 1984 and Angela Kelly ‘94 Head Coach University of Tennessee 1986, Shannon Higgins in Tina Luft ‘84 Head Coach Univ. of The Incarnate Word 1988 and 1989, Kristine Lilly Siri Mullinix ‘98 Asst. Coach UNC Greensboro Carla Overbeck ‘89 Asst. Coach Duke University China 2-1 in a physical gold medal match. The in 1990 and 1991, Mia Hamm Janet Rayfield ‘82 Head Coach University of Illinois gold medal victory was the greatest single in 1992 and 1993, Tisha Keri Sanchez ‘94 Head Coach Claremont College moment for the growth of the sport in American Venturini in 1994, Debbie Carrie Serwetnyk ‘87 Asst. Coach Boston University history and players and coaches with Tar Heel Keller in 1995 and 1996, Staci Lori Walker ‘91 Head Coach Ohio State University ties abounded in the revelry that followed. Wilson in 1995, Cindy Parlow Dorrance’s accomplishments have not gone in 1996, 1997 and 1998, unnoticed — particularly by those who played Robin Confer in 1997, Lorrie Fair in 1999, lege dynasty of all-time. for him. Former Tar Heel great April Heinrichs, Meredith Florance in 2000, Lindsay Tarpley in Dorrance has also coauthored two books. the head coach of the U.S. Women’s National 2003 and Catherine Reddick in 2003. He combined with Tim Nash to write “Training Soccer Team from 2000-04, says that where North Carolina begins the 2005 season with Soccer Champions” in 1996. It sold out in its Dorrance gains his coaching edge is in the way a 244-8-4 all-time home record. In its history, first printing and has done equally well in its he handles his players. totaling 622 games, Carolina has shut out second press run. Dorrance also co-authored “Anson is incredibly charismatic and intelli- opponents 416 times and has been held score- the award-winning “The Vision of a Champion” gent,” Heinrichs says. “He is very attuned to less in just 18 games. with Gloria Averbuch. It was published in 2003 women’s issues, in ways that many women’s Coach of the Year Honors Galore and almost immediately went to a second and coaches aren’t. He breaks down cliques and Dorrance has been chosen both men’s and then a third printing. builds team unity.” women’s National Coaches of the Year. He Following the United States’ victory in the Equally effusive in his praise of Dorrance is earned women’s national honors in 1982, 1986, women’s World Cup in 1991, he received an Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner John 1997, 2000, 2001 and 2003 and he was named Honorary All-America Award, one of the most Swofford, who served as athletic director at men’s national Coach of the Year in 1987. prestigious of its kind, from the National Soccer Carolina for 17 years while Dorrance was the In 1989, Dorrance was named the Coaches Association of America. head coach from 1980-97. Intercollegiate Soccer Association of America In 1991, Soccer America named Dorrance “Anson’s accomplishments on the field are South Region Coach of the year. He was the one of the 20 most influential men in American unparalleled. He may well be the single most Soccer News Southeast Region Coach of the soccer over the previous 20 years. Soccer successful coach in intercollegiate athletics,” Year in 1996 and the Soccer Buzz Southeast America followed that up in 1995 by naming says Swofford. “I think of Anson as a Region Coach of the Year in 1997, 2001 and Dorrance as one of the 25 most influential peo- Renaissance man. He’s so talented in so many 2003. In 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1996, 2001, ple in the history of American soccer. Dorrance different ways. And he has analyzed and made 2003 and 2004, he was named the Atlantic was one of only three coaches on that list and a science of coaching female athletes. No one Coast Conference Women’s Soccer Coach of the only women’s coach tapped. knows the ins and outs of that better than the Year. Dorrance in His College Years Anson Dorrance. He is a great ambassador, In 1996, Dorrance received the highest A 1974 University of North Carolina graduate not only for women’s soccer, but for the honor possible from the National Soccer with a Bachelor of Arts degree in both English University of North Carolina as well.” Coaches Association of America (NSCAA). He and philosophy, Dorrance began his collegiate 2005 CAROLINA WOMEN’S SOCCER MEDIA GUIDE: PAGE 3 CAROLINA WOMEN’S SOCCER: HEAD COACH ANSON DORRANCE

Bill Palladino The University of North Carolina’s Active United States National Team Connections Chief Assistant Coach Active Full National Team: Kristine Lilly, ‘92; Siri Mullinix, ‘98; Cindy Parlow, ‘98; Tiffany It wouldn’t be a stretch to Roberts, ‘98; Lorrie Fair, ‘99; Jenni Branam, ‘02; Catherine Reddick, ‘03; Lindsay Tarpley, say that Bill Palladino is the ‘05; Lori Chalupny, ‘05; Heather O’Reilly, ‘06. second best women’s soc- Active U-21 National Team: Lori Chalupny, ‘05; Kacey White, ‘05; Lindsay Tarpley, ‘05; cer coach in the collegiate Heather O’Reilly, ‘06; Ashlyn Harris, ‘10; Kendall Fletcher, ‘95; Jessica Maxwell, ‘07; ranks. A man who long ago Elizabeth Guess, ‘06 (pool player). could have left the Active U-20 National Team: Yael Averbuch, ‘09; Jaime Gilbert, ‘08. University of North Carolina and claimed any of the career at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, works as a rhythm tap dancer in New York, other best head coaching Texas where he spent one year studying and where she also teaches at Broadway Dance opportunities in the women’s college game, playing soccer. He then transferred to Carolina Center and Steps Studios. Michelle was Palladino has shown a tremendous loyalty to to play for legendary soccer coach Marvin recently featured in the March 2005 issue of the program at UNC, his alma mater. Allen. Dance Magazine. She performs in New York Thus, assistant coach Bill Palladino begins As a gifted soccer player in Chapel Hill, as well as across the U.S. and abroad with sev- his 26th year as head coach Anson Dorrance’s Dorrance was selected to the All-Atlantic Coast eral companies as well as at leading tap festi- right-hand man and the chief architect of the Conference Team three times as an undergrad- vals. stifling Carolina defense in 2005. Under uate and he won All-South Region honors in Natalie will turn 23 on October 10, 2005. Palladino’s brilliant direction, the Carolina 1973. He was named in 2002 one of the Top 50 She is engaged to be married and will wed defenses have consistently been an important men’s soccer players in Atlantic Coast David Harris, a third-year UNC law student, on cog in the Tar Heels’ run to national champi- Conference history. He was also one of the top September 3, 2005. Natalie teaches at New onship after national championship. In 1987, intramural sports performers on the Carolina Hope Elementary School in Chapel Hill and the Tar Heels set a defensive NCAA record campus during his days as an undergraduate. administrates the North Carolina Girls Soccer probably never to be matched when the team Prior to his permanent return to Chapel Hill Camp. allowed only two goals all season. In 2003, in 1976, he organized youth soccer leagues in Donavan is 14 (born May 22, 1991). He is a Palladino coached a defense which did not both Connecticut and North Carolina. He was allow a single goal in six NCAA Tournament the founder of both the North Carolina Youth games as the Tar Heels outscored their oppo- The Influence of Carolina Soccer Soccer Association and the North Carolina nents 32-0 and won their first NCAA title in Senior Soccer Association. Under Anson Dorrance three years. Dorrance has an “A” level coaching license * Thirty-two Tar Heel players played in the Palladino served as the top assistant coach from the United States Soccer Federation. He Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA) from 2001-03. Three more former UNC players for the U.S. Women’s National Team in 2002 was also a charter member of the NCAA served as coaches or administrators in the and 2003, retiring from that role in January of Women’s Soccer Committee and he has league. 2004. In that capacity Palladino served as the served as the women’s chairman of the * Nineteen former UNC players competed in the chief assistant to U.S. National Team head Intercollegiate Soccer Association of America. WUSA in 2003, the most of any college. Santa coach April Heinrichs, a 1987 UNC graduate. He is the former chairman of the NCAA Men’s Clara was second with 13. In the fall of 2003, Palladino split his duties and Women’s Soccer Rules Committee. He is * Marcia McDermott. ‘86, coached the Carolina between UNC and the National Team as it one of the few coaches in the country to quali- Courage to the 2002 WUSA title, assisted by Susan Ellis, ‘84. competed in the 2003 Women’s World Cup fy as a national staff coach for the United * UNC players have been staples on the U.S. from August into October. The U.S. women States Soccer Federation and for the National World Cup and Olympic Teams. The 1991 Soccer Coaches Association of America. He is World Cup roster featured nine players and two also involved in training coaches and awarding coaches; the 1995 World Cup roster featured coaching licenses. In the summer of 2003, he seven players and two coaches; the 1999 was named to the Board of Directors of the World Cup roster featured eight players and one coach and in 2003 there were six players National Soccer Hall of Fame. and two coaches on the World Cup squad. The Dorrance’s summer time soccer camps for 1996 Olympic Team included seven players and young women on the UNC campus are the two coaches, the 2000 Olympic Team included most popular in the nation. The camps sell out six players and two coaches and the 2004 team well in advance. Dorrance has even hosted a included six players and two coaches. version of the famous camp in England. * Forty-three current and former Carolina play- One of his more recent endeavors was his ers have earned caps with the United States National Team since its founding in 1985. Ten role as the color analyst on the Women’s are currently on the active full National Team United Soccer Association Game of the Week and eihgt are currently on the active Under-21 on Saturday afternoons as shown on PAX TV National Team. Two more are on the Under-20 from 2001-03. National Team roster. The Dorrance Family * UNC has led the nation in average women’s Dorrance was born on April 9, 1951, in soccer attendance five of the past seven years and finished second in attendance the other Bombay, India, and he is married to the former two seasons. Of the top 53 attendance figures M’Liss Gary. M’Liss is a former professional in NCAA history, 37 have involved Tar Heel dancer and she continues to teach ballet as an games. associate professor of the practice of ballet and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Duke University Dance Program. She also teaches freshman at Chapel Hill High School. In his at the Ballet School of Chapel Hill which she spare time he enjoys soccer and music and co-founded in 1980. When M’Liss is not watch- studies the piano and the electric guitar. ing soccer games on the weekends, she is Dorrance’s soccer origins stem from his rehearsing her choreography for the Duke youth days living in Ethiopia. He also lived in Ballet Repertory Ensemble and the Chapel Hill Kenya, Singapore, Belgium and Switzerland as Dance Theatre. a youth. His family traveled widely as his father The Dorrances have three children. was an international businessman. Michelle turns 26 on September 12, 2005. She is a graduate of New York University and

PAGE 4: 2005 CAROLINA WOMEN’S SOCCER MEDIA GUIDE CAROLINA WOMEN’S SOCCER STAFF: CAROLINA WOMEN’S SOCCER won the bronze medal in that competition. Carolina for three seasons from 1970-72 under coach for the women’s team at UNC- Palladino has been an integral part of the Tar the aegis of legendary coach Marvin Allen. Greensboro from 1995-98 on a part-time basis Heel women’s soccer program since the pro- Palladino added to his repertoire from 2001- before he became full-time coach at Carolina. gram’s second year when he came aboard as 03 when he served as a sideline reporter and In 1995, he was the goalkeepers coach at an assistant coach. Palladino has been right color commentator for national and regional Greensboro College. In 1990-91, he was an along side Dorrance throughout the last 25 WUSA telecasts, assistant coach at UC-Santa Cruz. years, a period of time which has seen UNC win Palladino has two children from a previous During his time at Carolina, he has tutored 18 national championships and 16 Atlantic marriage. Twins Bill and Suzi live in Chapel Hill, All-America goalkeepers Siri Munillix, Jenni Coast Conference titles. N.C. and San Francisco, Calif., respectively. Branam and Aly Winget. Mullinix was a three- Palladino was named the 1991 South Region Palladino is married to former Tar Heel soccer year for UNC and Branam and Winget were Coach of the Year by the National Soccer star Wendy Gebauer Palladino, who earned All- both four-year starting goalkeepers. Coaches Association of America/Met Life America honors and played at UNC from 1985- In the summer of 2000, Ducar served as the Insurance Company. He took over the team for 88. Bill and Wendy are the parents of Zachary head coach for the North Carolina women’s much of that season as interim head coach Ryan, who was born on January 14, 2005. state team that won the regional championship while Anson Dorrance was directing the efforts Wendy is employed by Wachovia Securities as and advanced to compete in the Donnelly Cup of the U.S. Women’s National Team in its suc- a financial analyst. National Championship over Thanksgiving cessful quest to win the 1991 Women’s World weekend 2000. Cup title in China. Chris Ducar Ducar graduated from the University of Palladino coached the Tar Heels in 10 games Goalkeeper Coach Missouri in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts degree that season and was victorious in each contest, Recruiting Coordinator in political science. He was a Dean’s List stu- including all three games of the NCAA Chris Ducar begins his dent. He went on to earn a teaching credential Tournament. North Carolina won the 10th of its 10th year as the goalkeep- from San Jose State University in 1995. 18 national titles with a 3-1 win over Wisconsin er coach and recruiting Ducar played club soccer at Missouri from on November 24, 1991. He is the first assistant coordinator for the 1986-90. Post-collegiately, he played for Inter coach to have ever won regional coach-of-the- University of North Carolina A.C. in Fremont, Calif. when it won the 1990 year honors. women’s soccer program in Premier Division title. He was a member of the “For me, Bill is the reason I enjoy my job so 2005. Ducar is a member of the Olympic San Francisco Bay Blackhawks of the APSL much,” says head coach Anson Dorrance. “He Development Program Staff in Regions I and III, when they won the 1991 national champi- is the reason the players enjoy the program so a National Clinician for the U.S. Youth Soccer onship. He also played for the San Jose Oaks, much. Bill is a big part of the reason there is Association and a member of the National the 1992 U.S. Open Cup champions. such great team chemistry. Soccer Coaches Association of America. Former National director for Soccer Plus “Bill is a team builder. He has helped us Ducar has been a mainstay in coaching U.S. Goalkeeper Schools in Connecticut, he spent- develop a philosophy towards player develop- Women’s national teams in international events. much of his time traveling the United States ment that encourages an informal but effective Ducar was the goalkeeper coach for the Under- organizing camps and clinics for Soccer Plus. rapport between players and coaches. Bill is a 21 National Team which won the 1999 Nordic He has also served as director of Go For Gold terrific counterbalance against my fiery and Cup title in Iceland. Former UNC player Siri Soccer Schools, World Soccer and Santa Cruz intense nature. That balance makes our pro- Mullinix was the championship keeper for the Soccer Camps in California and for David gram unique.” U.S. in that tournament and she was the starter Brcic’s Goalkeeper Schools in Missouri. Palladino began his coaching career at for the U.S. National Team in the 2000 Ducar holds coaching licenses from the Carolina in 1980. A native of Chapel Hill, Olympics. National Soccer Coaches Association of Palladino joined the staff that year after three Ducar was the goalkeeper coach for the 1998 America (premier license) and the United States seasons as an assistant coach with the UNC United States’ Under-21 women’s national team Soccer Federation (national “A” license). In men’s team from 1977-79 when it was also which competed in the Nordic Cup. The United 1997, he was named a national clinician by the coached by Dorrance. Dorrance was named States won the silver medal in that competition. U.S. Youth Soccer Association. Ducar is on the head coach of the men’s program in 1977 and Ducar also served as goalkeeper coach for the USSF and NSCAA National Goalkeeping Staffs. led it for 12 seasons through the 1988 cam- 1997 United States Under-21 national team Ducar was married in 1997 to the former paign. In 1979, Dorrance began the women’s which went on to win the gold medal in the 1997 Tracy Noonan. Tracy was a first-team All- program at UNC. Since then, he and Palladino Nordic Cup in Denmark. America goalkeeper at Carolina and is a 1996 have been a part of all 18 national champi- In addition to being an assistant coach at alumna of the University. She was a member of onships and 16 conference titles won by the UNC, Ducar has also served as an assistant the 1999 United States Women’s World Cup women’s program. Team which won the gold medal. She was a Palladino’s main emphasis is the defense, founding member of the WUSA and played for which traditionally is ranked among the finest in the Boston Breakers for three years. Ducar was the country. In 1987, the Tar Heels set NCAA named the head women’s soccer coach at records by allowing just two goals in 24 games Greensboro College in the spring of 2004. and recording 22 shutouts. Carolina matched that 22-shutout total in 1997 en route to another Tom Sander national title, allowing just eight goals that sea- General Manager son. A vital part of the UNC The 54-year-old Palladino holds an “A” women’s soccer scene for coaching license from the United States Soccer more than a decade, Tom Federation. He was head coach of the South Sander was made the soc- team at the 1995 U.S. Olympic Festival in cer program’s team manager Denver, Colo. In the late-1990s he served as in spring 1998. Previously, head coach of the Raleigh Wings in the W he served as the head stu- League, leading the team to an undefeated sea- dent manager and an admin- son in 1998 and to a second W League title in istrative assistant for six 1999. years in the women’s soccer office. His duties at North Carolina include on-field Sander coordinates all team operations at coaching, recruiting, directing camps, scouting home and on the road and serves as a liaison and administration. for the program with the University administra- A 1973 University of North Carolina graduate tion, Educational Foundation, program scholar- with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology, ship donors, soccer alumni and the Friends of Palladino played varsity men’s soccer at 2005 CAROLINA WOMEN’S SOCCER MEDIA GUIDE: PAGE 5 CAROLINA WOMEN’S SOCCER: CAROLINA WOMEN’S SOCCER STAFF

nationally in his field. He is the author of over 50 journal articles, has conducted over 120 scholarly presentations and is either the author or co-author of eight books in his fields of expertise. Prentice graduated from the University of Delaware in 1974 with a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education. He earned his Master of Science degree in physical education from the University of Delaware in 1976 and he Marie Baker, Dave Lohse, earned a Ph.D. in 1980 from the University of Marketing Communications Virginia in sports medicine and applied physiol- ogy. Prentice also has a Bachelor of Science degree in physical therapy earned from UNC in 1984.

Greg Gatz Strength & Conditioning Coach Greg Gatz is entering his seventh year as Director of Strength and Jake McDowell, Sara Randolph, Conditioning for Olympic Volunteer Coach Student Coach Sports at the University of North Carolina. Gatz and his staff are directly responsible for the strength and conditioning programs for 25 varsity athletic teams. Carolina Soccer. Gatz has earned certification as a Strength A native of Lancaster, Pa., Sander went to and Conditioning Specialist by the National Hempfield High School and then graduated Strength and Conditioning Association and was from UNC with a B.S. degree in biology in 1993. nominated as the College Strength and Sander also works as a consultant for Conditioning Coach of the Year by the NSCA in Softsport Inc. based in Los Angeles, Calif. In January 2001. Julie Gage, Michelle Bensman, that role, he works with college and MLS teams, Gatz was a football and track athlete at Ithaca Graduate Trainer Graduate Tariner the U.S. men’s and women’s National and (N.Y.) College, while majoring in physical edu- Olympic teams and several international teams. cation. He trains them to use the “match analysis soft- He and wife, Dana, have one child, Jessica ware” during games and how to analyze the (13). results afterward. He also does personal analysis for teams Delaine Marbry including the UNC women’s team. Tom says the highlights of his tutoring in this software Women’s Soccer have including working with the Women’s Administrative Asst. Olympic Team in 1996 and training people in A Chapel Hill native, England to use the software with legendary Delaine Marbry is a lifetime employee of UNC. She Regina Hash, Bill Wiswesser, Manchester United. Undergrad Trainer Manager currently serves as the Bill Prentice administrative assistant for Women’s Soccer Head the Tar Heel men’s and women’s soccer programs. Trainer Marbry began working at UNC directly after Bill Prentice is a vital part graduating from Chapel Hill High School and of the Tar Heel women’s actually worked part-time for the University as a soccer program and has high school student. Marbry began at UNC been ever since he came to Hospitals in budget, accounting and payroll, Chapel Hill in July of 1980. then worked in the physical education depart- This fall he will begin his ment for seven years and the School of Nursing 26th year as the head train- for two years. She moved to the Athletic Billy Scott, Tamara Kirk, Manager Manager er for the Tar Heel women’s Department in 1990, first working in the Smith soccer team. Prentice has been the head train- Center administrative offices. In 1991, she er for 18 national championship teams and 16 began working with Olympic Sports including ACC championship teams at UNC. men’s and women’s soccer, volleyball and Prentice was inducted in the spring of 2004 women’s tennis. into the National Athletic Trainers Association Marbry is married to Gary Marbry. They were Hall of Fame. married in 1982 after Gary graduated from Prentice serves as a full professor and is UNC. They have two sons, Michael (21) a sen- coordinator of the Sports Medicine Program in ior at UNC Wilmington on a baseball scholar- the Department of Exercise and Sports Science ship and Trevor (17), a senior at Chapel Hill at the University of North Carolina. He is also a High. clinical professor in the Division of Physical Marbry is the daughter of Chapel Hill natives Ryan Caruso, Kristen Kubis, Therapy and associate professor in the Buddy and Marie Hardee. She has twin broth- Manager Manager Department of Orthopaedics. ers – Terry, who works for UNC Hospitals, and Prentice is considered one of the top experts Jerry, who lives in West Virginia.

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