Field Hockey
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- gfulton@uncaa.unc.edu
- Phone:
- 919-962-5219
Grant Fulton came to Chapel Hill as an assistant coach in the summer of 2005, bringing to Chapel Hill a wealth of international experience as a coach and a player. He was promoted to Associate Head Coach in January of 2010.
Before arriving at Carolina, he spent two years coaching his native South Africa, where he served as an assistant for both the men's and women's national teams. He also has been an assistant coach and player for the University of Pretoria men's first team. He spent part of 2002 in Canada, where he was the head coach and manager for the Vancouver Hawks Field Hockey Club, working with male and female players of all ages. He coached and managed several club and school teams from 2001-02, and he was a player and coach for Oranje Zwart, a club team in The Netherlands, in 1998-99. From 1996-99, he co-founded and helped run Sport for Africa, which promoted a variety of sports to children ages 7-18 in Pretoria.
From 2006 to 2014, Fulton served as head coach of the South Region team in the USFHA Women's National Championships, leading the squad to a championship in 2013. As a player, he was the top goal scorer in the 2008 USFHA Men's National Championship. The last two summers, Fulton has served as a high performance assistant coach for the USFHA Young Women’s National Championship.
A graduate of the University of Pretoria, he represented his home country at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and appeared in a total of 60 international matches with South Africa's National Team.
He was awarded a U.S. Field Hockey Level III Coaching certificate in 2007.
Fulton's wife, Meghan Fulton, is an athletic trainer at Durham Academy. They have a son, Oliver, and a daughter, Everly.
