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20 Years with Robbie Church: Church Named 2011 ACC Coach of the Year
2/8/2021 11:55:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Head coach Robbie Church is in his 20th season with the Blue Devils. GoDuke.com will be looking back over the last 20 years highlighting top moments for Duke women's soccer under the direction of Church.
DURHAM, N.C. – Duke women's soccer head coach Robbie Church was named ACC Coach of the Year for the first time in his career after leading the Blue Devils to the 2011 regular-season conference title.
In his 11th year at the helm, Church guided the team to its best season since his arrival in Durham in 2001. At the time of the All-ACC announcements on Nov. 3, Duke boasted a 17-2-1 overall record and an ACC ledger of 8-1-1, which was the league's best and earned the Blue Devils the top seed in the conference tournament. Duke was ranked No. 1 in the latest NCAA RPI and was third nationally in the NSCAA rankings. The 17 wins matched a program single-season record, which was eventually surpassed as the team finished the season at 22-4-1.
Church led Duke to seven victories over ranked opponents. The Blue Devils also had wins against nine teams listed in the top 33 of the NCAA RPI.
The Coach of the Year honor was the first for Church in the ACC and marked his third league accolade, as he was selected the Carolinas Conference Coach of the Year in 1989 as the head coach of the Belmont Abbey men's team, and was named Conference USA Coach of the Year in 1997 after leading the women's program at UNC Charlotte.
"It's a great honor," said Church. "But a lot of that credit, and I've said it before, goes to our staff, which I feel is the best in the country. We've got to give a lot of credit to them for the work that they have done with the individual players and the group of players they work with. The team should also get a lot of credit for that, as we've talked about before. This group has been so focused and so concentrated. They wanted to be a great team all year and they worked really hard, so I appreciate all the work that everyone has done for us."
Church became the second Duke coach to be named ACC Coach of the Year and the first since Bill Hempen won the award in 1997.
The 2011 Blue Devils also featured six All-ACC selections, including first-team honorees Natasha Anasi and Kaitlyn Kerr. Tara Campbell, Kelly Cobb, Mollie Pathman and Laura Weinberg were voted to the Second Team. Anasi, who led the team in minutes and started every match, was tapped the ACC Defensive Player of the Year.
Duke would fall to Wake Forest in the ACC semifinals before making a historic run through the NCAA Tournament, where it got revenge against the Demon Deacons in the College Cup semifinal to advance to the program's first national championship match since 1992.
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DURHAM, N.C. – Duke women's soccer head coach Robbie Church was named ACC Coach of the Year for the first time in his career after leading the Blue Devils to the 2011 regular-season conference title.
In his 11th year at the helm, Church guided the team to its best season since his arrival in Durham in 2001. At the time of the All-ACC announcements on Nov. 3, Duke boasted a 17-2-1 overall record and an ACC ledger of 8-1-1, which was the league's best and earned the Blue Devils the top seed in the conference tournament. Duke was ranked No. 1 in the latest NCAA RPI and was third nationally in the NSCAA rankings. The 17 wins matched a program single-season record, which was eventually surpassed as the team finished the season at 22-4-1.
Church led Duke to seven victories over ranked opponents. The Blue Devils also had wins against nine teams listed in the top 33 of the NCAA RPI.
The Coach of the Year honor was the first for Church in the ACC and marked his third league accolade, as he was selected the Carolinas Conference Coach of the Year in 1989 as the head coach of the Belmont Abbey men's team, and was named Conference USA Coach of the Year in 1997 after leading the women's program at UNC Charlotte.
"It's a great honor," said Church. "But a lot of that credit, and I've said it before, goes to our staff, which I feel is the best in the country. We've got to give a lot of credit to them for the work that they have done with the individual players and the group of players they work with. The team should also get a lot of credit for that, as we've talked about before. This group has been so focused and so concentrated. They wanted to be a great team all year and they worked really hard, so I appreciate all the work that everyone has done for us."
Church became the second Duke coach to be named ACC Coach of the Year and the first since Bill Hempen won the award in 1997.
The 2011 Blue Devils also featured six All-ACC selections, including first-team honorees Natasha Anasi and Kaitlyn Kerr. Tara Campbell, Kelly Cobb, Mollie Pathman and Laura Weinberg were voted to the Second Team. Anasi, who led the team in minutes and started every match, was tapped the ACC Defensive Player of the Year.
Duke would fall to Wake Forest in the ACC semifinals before making a historic run through the NCAA Tournament, where it got revenge against the Demon Deacons in the College Cup semifinal to advance to the program's first national championship match since 1992.
#GoDuke
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