A significant moment in college sports history unfolded on a chilly Saturday afternoon in Salem, Virginia.
Not because the University of Chicago football team – a football powerhouse perennially reduced to Final Four appearances – finally broke their ostensible NCAA Division III semi-final curse and claimed the program’s first-ever national title. Not even because they did so riding an astounding undefeated record.
But because Julianne Sitch guided the squad to all of it, becoming the first woman to coach a men’s soccer team to a national championship.
