Len Tsantiris is an American college soccer coach, who served as head coach of the Connecticut Huskies women's soccer team from 1981 through 2017. Tsantiris is second all-time on the career wins list for women's soccer coaches, with 570 victories.

Playing career

Tsantiris earned four varsity letters in soccer for the

Connecticut Huskies men's soccer The UConn Huskies men's soccer team is an intercollegiate varsity sports team of the University of Connecticut. The team is a member of the Big East Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). History Connecticut soccer ex ...

team, earning All-New England and All-Yankee Conference honors. The Huskies qualified for three NCAA tournaments in his four seasons, reaching the quarterfinals in 1971 and 1974 and the final sixteen in 1975.

Coaching career

Tsantiris became head coach of the UConn Women's soccer team in 1981. From 1982-2007 he led the team to 26 consecutive NCAA tournament appearance and 31 appearances over the course of his coaching career. He announced his retirement after the team's 2017 season after 37 seasons as head coach and 570 wins, behind only

Anson Dorrance Albert Anson Dorrance IV (born April 9, 1951) is an American soccer coach. He is currently the head coach of the women's soccer program at the University of North Carolina. He has one of the most successful coaching records in the history of ath ...

all time.

References

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