Julianne Sitch Departs UChicago, Hired as Head Women’s Soccer Coach at Denver

CHICAGO – The College of Denver introduced on Wednesday that the Pioneers have employed Julianne Sitch as their subsequent head ladies’s soccer coach. Sitch led the College of Chicago males’s soccer program throughout the 2022-23 educational yr.

Sitch’s debut season on the helm of the Maroon males concluded in historic trend. The 2022 squad proved unstoppable all season lengthy, profitable this system’s first NCAA Division III Nationwide Championship with an undefeated 22-0-1 file. Alongside the way in which, UChicago claimed the College Athletic Affiliation (UAA) title with a 6-0-1 mark in convention play. Sitch and her assistant coaches have been named the United Soccer Coaches’ Nationwide Teaching Employees of the Yr, USC Area VIII Teaching Employees of the Yr and UAA Teaching Employees of the Yr. Sitch was additionally chosen because the D3soccer.com Coach of the Yr.

“I need to thank Angie Torain for believing in me and hiring me to steer the boys’s soccer program at UChicago,” Sitch stated. “I’m past grateful for the division welcoming me again into the Maroon household and all of the assist all through our season. UChicago is a particular place, and I’m ceaselessly grateful for the recollections created right here each on and off the sector. This system will proceed to achieve success, and I want the athletes all the most effective.”

A smothering protection was UChicago’s calling card in 2022, because the Maroons registered extra shutouts (13) than targets allowed (11). The staff ranked seventh within the nation with a 0.474 targets towards common. On the offensive facet of the ball, the Maroons posted 51 targets (2.22 per sport) with 9 completely different multi-goal scorers. Three gamers earned All-American standing, and the staff’s accolades additionally included 5 All-Area honorees, seven All-UAA accolades and three Educational All-America awards.

Earlier to her time with the boys, Sitch served as an assistant coach with the UChicago ladies’s soccer staff from 2015-17 and once more in 2019.

“We’re grateful for the season that we had with Sitch as the top coach of the boys’s soccer program and a member of our athletics division,” stated Director of Athletics & Recreation Angie Torain. “She taught us all the way to have a Champion Mindset in all the things we do, and we want her nicely going ahead.”