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Overbeck Named To NCAA Anniversary Team
10/18/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. ? Current Duke Women's Soccer Assistant Coach Carla Overbeck has been named one of 12 members of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer 25th Anniversary Team. The 11 former student-athletes and one coach were recognized for their outstanding achievement while participating in NCAA competition.
The ACC led all conferences with seven members named to the anniversary team including six student-athletes and a coach. The seven members representing the University of North Carolina included Mia Hamm, April Heinrichs, Kristine Lilly, Catherine Reddick, Tisha Venturini, Carla Overbeck and Head Coach Anson Dorrance. The six student-athletes combined for 21 national titles, eight National Player of the Year awards and one Most Outstanding Female Athlete award during their playing careers at North Carolina.
Other members of the 25th Anniversary Team included Danielle (Fotopoulos) Garrett, SMU/Florida, Forward; Lisa Gmitter, George Mason, Forward; Jen Renola, Notre Dame, Goalkeeper; Christine Sinclair, Portland, Forward; Aly Wagner, Santa Clara, Midfielder.
On May 6, 2006, the National Soccer Hall of Fame announced that Overbeck was elected to the Hall of Fame along with men's soccer standout Alexi Lalas and both were officially inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame on Monday, Aug. 28 in Oneonta, N.Y.
Overbeck's illustrious career includes two FIFA World Championships, an Olympic Gold Medal, and four NCAA Division I Women's National Championships. Most famously, she was captain of the 1999 U. S. Women's National Team which defeated the China in the FIFA Women's World Cup Final at the Rose Bowl in front of 90,000+ people and millions on international television in the largest women's sporting event in history. It was Overbeck who took and scored the first goal for the American team that day in the penalty kick tiebreaker following the 0 ? 0 result of 120 minutes of play. She joins 1999 teammate Michelle Akers, Class of 2004, in the Hall of Fame.
She was a central defender on the 1991 U. S. Women's Team that won the first FIFA World Championship for Women's Football, as the tournament was called then. She joins four teammates from that team in the Hall of Fame, Akers, April Heinrichs, Class of 1998 and the first women player elected to the Hall of Fame, Carin Jennings Gabarra, Class of 2000, and Shannon Higgins Cirovski, Class of 2002.
In 1996 Overbeck won an Olympic Gold Medal in the Atlanta Olympic Games, captaining the team to the Gold Medal victory over China. She was a founding player of the Women's United Soccer Association, leading the Carolina Courage to the 2002 WUSA Championship. As a collegian she attended the University of North Carolina and won four NCAA Division I Women's National Championships there from 1986-89. She led the Tar Heels to an 89-0-6 record, was a three-time All-America and four-time member of the NCAA All-Tournament team during her collegiate career.
Overbeck has been an assistant coach for the Blue Devil women's soccer team since 1992 and has helped guide Duke to 12 NCAA Tournament appearances.
An expert panel affiliated with soccer selected the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer 25th Anniversary Team. The panel, which consisted of soccer historians and athletics administrators, used historical data and results from online public voting to make its decision.
The NCAA Division I Women's Soccer 25th Anniversary Celebration event will be held Thursday, November 30 at 7:00 pm at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts. The 25th Anniversary Celebration is a free event which will commemorate the history of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship and showcase former and current collegiate women's soccer student-athletes, coaches and key moments throughout the evening.
The 2006 NCAA Championship will be held December 1 and 3 at the SAS Soccer Park in Cary, N.C. Members of the 25th Anniversary Team will be honored at the tournament on Friday, December 1.
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