UNC Women's Soccer Preview - New Team, Same Goals
Following the program’s 23rd national championship, North Carolina women’s soccer enters its 2025 campaign ranked No. 1 in the United Soccer Coaches preseason poll.
UNC Women's Soccer 2025 Preview: New Team, Same Goals
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Video and audio podcast in article, but here is the YT link....
Outstanding interview, guys! I'm so happy to see our women's and Olympic sports receiving attention on IC, and I know this is a decision about allocation of finite resources.
These "non-revenue" sports provide so much leadership and ultimate success for our athletic department and university. It's great to see a deep dive into the coaching profile that it takes.
Thank you Tommy, Joey and Coach Nahas for the time well spent!
These "non-revenue" sports provide so much leadership and ultimate success for our athletic department and university. It's great to see a deep dive into the coaching profile that it takes.
Thank you Tommy, Joey and Coach Nahas for the time well spent!
Thanks IC for covering our successful Olympic Sports!
Interesting interview - thanks, Tommy and Joey.
Coach Nahas sounded very enthusiastic about his freshman class, one that the rating services have not touted. And then I think back to a recruiting class several years ago which included a player from Arizona who was ranked outside the top-100. She earned playing time as a freshman with AD’s substitutes and she always played very hard. And then last season Kate Faase helped lead her team to a national championship and was named POY. (I wish Paul Harvey was still around to do this story justice.)
Coach Nahas sounded very enthusiastic about his freshman class, one that the rating services have not touted. And then I think back to a recruiting class several years ago which included a player from Arizona who was ranked outside the top-100. She earned playing time as a freshman with AD’s substitutes and she always played very hard. And then last season Kate Faase helped lead her team to a national championship and was named POY. (I wish Paul Harvey was still around to do this story justice.)
This interview was very enlightening. It gives great insight into how Damon thinks, his beliefs, etc. Thanks to the wonderful IC team for covering our Olympic sports.
I am only half way through the interview so far, but I particularly liked Nahas's candid responses about the UCLA championship loss and in particular the BYU quarterfinal loss. He alluded to some very unique/unexpected team turmoil that I think was reaching its peak during that Provo trip and the team was dealing with that adversity. He was careful not to air out the dirty laundry, but he made clear that what lead to the massive off-season exodus was already damaging the locker room in the NCAAT.
It was after that that they offered Armstrong and Alvarez scholarships if they would graduate early (they came open) And we had to go out and pick up Ngai, Migli, and the other transfers (Shorrock and Bretzer my guess, as I think that Gagne was already coming in at that point?) . Spring ball that offseason was 8v8.
Then Dorrance retired and when they promoted Nahas his position was not backfilled, so the played the entire last season with an interim coach and an assistant coach vacancy.
Fascinating.
It was after that that they offered Armstrong and Alvarez scholarships if they would graduate early (they came open) And we had to go out and pick up Ngai, Migli, and the other transfers (Shorrock and Bretzer my guess, as I think that Gagne was already coming in at that point?) . Spring ball that offseason was 8v8.
Then Dorrance retired and when they promoted Nahas his position was not backfilled, so the played the entire last season with an interim coach and an assistant coach vacancy.
Fascinating.