UChicago’s Julianne Sitch first girl to educate NCAA males’s soccer crew to title

Julianne Sitch turned the primary girl to educate a males’s soccer program to an NCAA nationwide championship when she led the College of Chicago previous Williams Faculty 2-0 within the Division III title recreation on Saturday.

Sitch, a former star participant for DePaul and the NWSL’s Chicago Purple Stars, guided the top-seeded Maroons to a 22-0-1 report in her first yr as coach. Saturday’s shutout win comes simply eight months after Sitch returned to Chicago as head coach after serving two earlier stints as an assistant with the crew.

It was the primary NCAA males’s soccer title in this system’s historical past and capped a season during which the Maroons set a college report for wins.

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Sitch is one in every of solely two ladies teaching a males’s NCAA soccer crew in Division III (NYU’s Kim Wyant is the opposite).

“The credit score goes to the crew,” Sitch stated after the win in Salem, Va. “I imply, these guys have by no means had a feminine coach earlier than, they usually embraced me as one in every of their very own. For me, that can perpetually be a grateful second.

“Simply to look at them play, I am extraordinarily proud,” she added. “They put on their coronary heart on their sleeve, they present up day by day … the vitality, the help, the togetherness, it is a crew.”