Anson Dorrance - UNC Women's Soccer Head Coach On Being A Loving Critic, Standards, & The Competitive-Cauldron

Building Excellence with Bailey Miles

#123: Anson Dorrance is a 21x National Champion Coach for the University of North Carolina’s Women's Soccer Program & led the United States Women’s National Team to their first World Cup title in 1991, where he served as the head coach from 1986-1994.
In 2008 he was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame. He has one of the most successful records in all of sports with 1,093 games won at Carolina. The list of accomplished athletes that he has coached is endless. He has coached 19 different players to National Player-of-the-Year honors, including three-time recipient Cindy Parlow and Mia Hamm, who was selected the Greatest Female Athlete in the ACC’s first 50 years. Dorrance has been named National Coach of the Year seven times, six as the women’s head coach (1982, 1986, 1997, 2000, 2003 and 2006) and once with the men (1987).
On the show Coach Dorrance shares his unique story of growing up, learning from Coach Dean Smith, playing soccer, competition, coaching, snowplow parents, accountability, being a loving critic, the competitive-cauldron and much much more.
Be sure to check out his three books: Vision of a Champion, Training Soccer Champions, and The Man Watching, which can be found on amazon. He also has a podcast called The Vision of a Champion Podcast, which can be found on all platforms.
You can check out the UNC Women’s soccer team in acton as they start their season this week up at Penn State. You can find their schedule at https://goheels.com/sports/womens-soccer/schedule and if you know someone that would want to become a better player and learn form the best check out their summer camps at carolinagirlssoccercamp.com

Enjoy the show!