The Man Watching: Anson Dorrance and the University of North Carolina Women’s Soccer Dynasty

The Man Watching: Anson Dorrance and the University of North Carolina Women’s Soccer Dynasty is the authorized biography of a fascinating head coach and the more than 200 young women he inspired to believe that anything is possible.

Updated to include the story of the Tar Heels’s 2008 and 2009 NCAA championships.

As coach of the UNC’s women’s soccer team, Anson Dorrance has won more than 90 percent of his games, groomed far more All-Americans, and captured more NCAA championships than any other coach in the sport ten times over. Author Tim Crothers spent four years interviewing Dorrance and Tar Heels players from every era, along with players and coaches from rival college programs, to create the most comprehensive, intimate, and unfiltered look ever inside the most prolific dynasty in college athletics.

TIM CROTHERS is a former senior writer at Sports Illustrated who graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1986 and has lectured in the university’s journalism department for the last seven years. He is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Hard Work: A Life On and Off the Court with Roy Williams.