University of North Carolina Athletics
Post-Match Notes From The NCAA Championship Game
December 6, 2009 | Women's Soccer
Dec. 6, 2009
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•North Carolina won its 20th NCAA championship and 21st national collegiate championship in women's soccer Sunday against Stanford. The Tar Heels have won NCAA crowns in 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2008 and 2010. The 1981 team won the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women national title.
•UNC women's soccer became the sixth program in NCAA history to win 20 NCAA championships with the victory, joining Oklahoma State wrestling (34), USC men's outdoor track and field (26), Iowa wrestling (22), Yale men's golf (21) and Denver skiing (20) as programs with 20 titles. UNC's soccer program is the first women's sports program to win 20 NCAA championships.
•Carolina's 20 NCAA women's soccer titles are five more than any other women's sports program. Stanford's women's tennis team has won 15 NCAA championships.
•North Carolina's Anson Dorrance won his 20th NCAA championship as a coach, the most by any coach in a single sport in NCAA history. Al Scates of the UCLA men's volleyball program and John McDonnell of the Arkansas men's indoor track and field program have won 19 NCAA titles each.
•Sunday marked the 10th meeting in history between UNC and Stanford. All nine previous games had been regular-season matchups. UNC now leads the all-time series 8-0-2. The most recent meeting had been a 1-1 tie in 2008 in a regular-season matchup in the Nike Stanford Invitational in what was the sixth game for the Tar Heels in the 2008 campaign.
•Carolina is now 106-7-1 in NCAA Tournament games. UNC's winning percentage is 93.4 percent in those 114 matches. Notre Dame is second in NCAA Tournament all-time with 53 wins.
•UNC has won twice as many NCAA Tournament games as the second-place team on the list, Notre Dame. UNC has 106 NCAA wins and Notre Dame 53.
•UNC has outscored their NCAA Tournament opponents 391-61 in those 114 NCAA Tournament games.
•Sunday marked Carolina's 23rd NCAA Tournament championship game appearance out of the 28 NCAA titles games played. Carolina's 23 championship game appearances are 16 more than second-place Notre Dame with seven. Connecticut has played for four titles.
•UNC improved to 20-3 in NCAA championship matches Sunday. The losses came in 1985 against George Mason, in 1998 against Florida and in 2001 against Santa Clara.
•Coach Anson Dorrance won the 696th game of his career Sunday. He is now 696-36-22 in 31 seasons as Tar Heel head mentor.
•UNC has outscored its opposition 3,014 goals to 359 in 753 games in history. That is a margin of 2,654 goals.
•Carolina finished the season on an 11-game winning streak since a 1-0 loss at Miami on October 25.
•Casey Nogueira was named the Most Valuable Player on Offense in the NCAA Women's College Cup for the second successive year.
•Jessica McDonald's game-winning goal in the NCAA finals was the first hoal she had scored since she tallied in the second half of UNC's 3-0 win over Clemson on October 29.
•Casey Nogueira was UNC's leading scorer in the 2009 NCAA Tournament with five goals and four assists for 14 points. She finished her career with 34 NCAA Tournament points on 13 goals and nine assists.
•Nogueira scored the game-winning goal in four of the six College Cup games in which she played (2006 semifinals and finals, 2008 finals, 2009 semifinals) and she had the game-winning assist in a fifth game (2009 finals).
•The 12 goals allowed this year by UNC are the fewest since the 2003 team surrendered only 11 tallies.
•Kristi Eveland, Whitney Engen and Casey Nogueira played in their 107th, 105th and 102nd career games Sunday.
•On Sunday, Kristi Eveland tied Robin Confer of North Carolina for the NCAA record for games played in a career with 107. Confer played at UNC from 1994-97.
•Eveland and Engen both finished with over 100 career starts. Eveland finished her career having started 104 games and Engen was on the pitch for the opening whistle 103 times. The school record for games started is 104 by North Carolina's Yael Averbuch (2005-08). Eveland tied that record on Sunday with her 104th career start.
•UNC's defense posted 19 clean sheets in 26 matches this year including 10 blankings of foes in the last 11 games. UNC had both seven and eight match shutout streaks this campaign.
•The last time UNC posted shutouts in both College Cup games came in 2003.
•Carolina played 23 of its 27 games against teams that played in the 2009 NCAA Tournament field. UNC was 20-2-1 in those 23 encounters.
•Carolina allowed only one goal in the first half of its 27 games this season. That is one goal allowed in the 1,215 minutes played in the first half of Carolina's matches this season.
•All three UNC losses this year came by a single goal. The last time UNC lost by a margin of two or more goals was 24 years ago in the 1985 NCAA championship game versus George Mason.
•Carolina allowed only 57 shots to be taken by opponents in the last 11 games of the season.
•UNC has allowed only 14 goals in the last 3,452 minutes and 16 seconds of action dating back to a 2-2 draw with Florida State on October 30, 2008.
•Carolina has posted clean sheets in 26 of its past 37 games.
•UNC finished 11-0-1 against non-ACC teams this season.
•Caey Nogueira finished her career 14th in UNC career scoring with 139 points. Meredith Florance ranks 13th with 150 points. Florance played at UNC from 1997-2000.
•Nogueira finished her career tied for 15th place in career goals at UNC with 55. Stephanie Zeh (1981-82) also scored 55 times for the Tar Heels.
•In 31 years, UNC has averaged 22.45 wins per season while losing 1.16 games a year and posting 0.71 ties annually.
•North Carolina was 12-3 in one-goal decisions this year and 18-2-1 in games decided by shutouts.
•Tobin Heath and Whitney Engen were named Thursday as semifinalists for the 2009 Hermann Trophy. They were also named first-team National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) All-Americas Friday.
•Heath and Engen were named to the NSCAA's All-Southeast Region Team this week while Ashlyn Harris was on the second team and Casey Nogueira on the third team.
•UNC's nine seniors were the winningest senior class in the country over their four years at 94-9-4. Notre Dame was second at 91-11-4. UCLA was third with a record of 84-10-5 for its senior class.
