Len Tsantiris

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Len Tsantiris
Biographical details
Bornc. 1954 (age 6869)
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Playing career
1973–1976 Connecticut
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1981–2017Connecticut
Head coaching record
Overall570-201-59
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
4x Conference tournament championships (2002, 2004,2014,2016)
9x Conference regular season championships (1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2016) [1]
Awards
NSCAA Division I National (1997)
Division I Northeast Coach of the Year (1983, 1987, 1995, 1996)
Conference Coach of the Year(1995,1998,2015,2016) [1]

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. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

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Playing career

Tsantiris earned four varsity letters in soccer for the Connecticut Huskies men's soccer 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. [2]

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. [1] He announced his retirement after the team's 2017 season after 37 seasons as head coach and 570 wins, behind only Anson Dorrance all time. [1]

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