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Oral history interview with Anson Dorrance, June 11, 1991
Anson Dorrance was born in Bombay, India, and spent his boyhood in places like Singapore and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but every three years his family spent three months in Lewisburg, North Carolina, Dorrance's father's hometown. These ties to North Carolina eventually brought Dorrance to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where after a successful career as a soccer player, he became coach of the men's soccer team. Dorrance enjoyed a fruitful eleven years as men's coach, but he has earned lasting acclaim as the coach of the women's team. Since 1979, he has put together a remarkable record of success (at the time of this 1991 interview, his teams had won nine national championships). He did so in part because of his attention to the complexities of coaching women, whose thinking and speaking styles he believes differ from those of men. Dorrance believes that his...
