University of North Carolina Athletics
Tar Heel Women's Soccer Team Sweeps 2003 Soccer Times Awards
January 27, 2004 | Women's Soccer
Jan. 27, 2004
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The 2003 NCAA champion University of North Carolina women's soccer team made a clean sweep of the top awards from SoccerTimes.com as announced by managing editor Gary Davidson and a national voting panel of 17 NCAA Division I coaches. Soccer Times tapped Tar Heel sophomore forward Lindsay Tarpley as its 2003 National Player of the Year, forward Heather O'Reilly as its Freshman of the Year and senior Catherine Reddick as its Defender of the Year. In addition, Anson Dorrance, who led the Tar Heels to a 27-0-0 record, the best in the history of college women's soccer, was named the Soccer Times National Coach of the Year.
A total of six players from UNC were named to the Soccer Times All-America Teams. Tarpley and Reddick were named to the first team along with sophomore midfielder Lori Chalupny. O'Reilly was named to the second team All-America squad while third team selections were senior defender Carmen Watley and senior midfielder Maggie Tomecka.
Tarpley led NCAA Division I scorers in 2003 with 73 points and in assists with 27. She led the Tar Heels with 23 goals and five game-winning goals. She was also named National Player of the Year by Soccer America and Soccer Post. Reddick, starting defender on the 2003 U.S. World Cup Team, won the 2003 Honda Soccer Award and Missouri Athletic Cub Hermann Trophy, while playing 13 games for UNC, scoring six goals and adding five assists.
O'Reilly was Carolina's third leading scorer with 43 points on 16 goals and 11 assists. Eight of her goals came in six NCAA Tournament games as she was named Most Valuable Player of the 2003 NCAA Tournament. Chalupny was the Tar Heels' fourth leading scorer and one of the top midfielders in the nation all season with 34 points (11 goals, 12 assists).
Watley started 26 games on a Tar Heel defensive unit which led the nation in scoring defense at 0.40 goals per game while allowing no goals in six NCAA Tournament games. Tomecka, one of the nation's most underrated players, started 26 games as a senior and had six goals and 10 assists for 26 points.
