Julianne Sitch became the archetypal pistillate to manager a men's shot programme to an NCAA nationalist title erstwhile she led the University of Chicago past Williams College 2-0 successful the Division III rubric crippled connected Saturday.
Sitch, a erstwhile prima subordinate for DePaul and the NWSL's Chicago Red Stars, guided the top-seeded Maroons to a 22-0-1 grounds successful her archetypal twelvemonth arsenic coach. Saturday's shutout triumph comes conscionable 8 months aft Sitch returned to Chicago arsenic caput manager aft serving 2 erstwhile stints arsenic an adjunct with the team.
It was the archetypal NCAA men's shot rubric successful the program's past and capped a play successful which the Maroons acceptable a schoolhouse grounds for wins.
Julianne Sitch, @uchicagoath caput coach, becomes the archetypal pistillate to pb an NCAA men's shot squad to a nationalist championship!#TitleIX50 x #d3soc pic.twitter.com/QAZP9c8l9p
— NCAA (@NCAA) December 3, 2022Sitch is 1 of lone 2 women coaching a men's NCAA shot squad successful Division III (NYU's Kim Wyant is the other).
"The recognition goes to the team," Sitch said aft the triumph successful Salem, Va. "I mean, these guys person ne'er had a pistillate manager before, and they embraced maine arsenic 1 of their own. For me, that volition everlastingly beryllium a grateful moment.
"Just to ticker them play, I'm highly proud," she added. "They deterioration their bosom connected their sleeve, they amusement up each time ... the energy, the support, the togetherness, this is simply a team."
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