Soccer
The Tennessee Lady Vols soccer team competes in the SEC and has won 4 conference championships. The Lady Vols were formerly coached by Angela Kelly, who resigned her job on December 17, 2011, to become head coach at the University of Texas.
Under Kelly's guidance the Lady Vols women's soccer program became quite the Southeastern Conference
powerhouse and a force on the collegiate soccer landscape. Before her promotion to head coach, the Big Orange had never advanced to the NCAA Tournament, claimed an SEC Tournament match, collected any of the league's hardware or been ranked in the final poll of any season.After taking over the program, Kelly took home four consecutive SEC Eastern Division banners, three straight SEC regular-season crowns and four SEC Tournament titles between 2000-08. The ex-Lady Vol boss also owns three SEC Coach of the Year trophies which she collected each year from 2003-05.
Over the past nine years, Kelly combined strong recruiting, top talent, excellent leadership and team chemistry to create a Tennessee program that made Lady Vol history and collected numerous accolades, both as a team and individually. Kelly compiled a 127-59-16 overall record since taking over at Rocky Top, leading the team to four SEC Eastern Division titles, three regular season championships and four SEC Tournament crowns. In her nine years at the helm, Kelly's teams reached eight NCAA Tournaments, making five Sweet 16 appearances. Kelly's squads were 10-7-2 in the NCAA Tournament and were nearly unbeatable at home, winning nearly 86 percent of the time in Knoxville.
On Jan. 26, 2012 Dave Hart officially announced that Brian Pensky would take over as head coach for the University of Tennessee women's soccer program. Pensky previously coached at the University of Maryland where he was recently named the 2010 Soccer America National Coach of the Year for guiding Maryland to the No. 1 overall seed in the 2010 NCAA Soccer Tournament.
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—Fred G. Gosman (20th century)
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—British soccer fan. quoted in Independent (London, Dec. 23, 1988)
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—Mexican steelworkers’ banner at opening ceremony of 1986 World Cup soccer championship.