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COACHING MARK: Gurnett, who has coached the women’s soccer team since 1977, has earned his 400th career victory this season. (Photo: Athletics & Recreation)Rochester women’s soccer coach Terry Gurnett ’77 is continuing his run into the record books.
The legendary coach, who has been on the sidelines with the Yellowjackets since 1977, won his 400th career victory in September when striker Ellen Coleman ’12 headed in a cross from Marissa Braverman ’11 late in the first sudden death overtime as Rochester edged Penn State–Behrend, 1–0, in the first round of the Clarion Hotel Soccer Classic at SUNY Fredonia. Gurnett leads all Division III women’s soccer coaches in wins, and he is third all-time in wins among women’s soccer coaches on all levels of NCAA competition.
Through the 2007 season, 24 of his players have received 30 All-America honors. During that same time, three Yellowjacket women soccer players have been selected to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Team (as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America). Seven others have been named to the NSCAA Scholar-Athlete Team as chosen by members of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.
As a team, Rochester has earned the association’s Team Academic Award every year since 1999.
Gurnett’s teams have made 20 straight postseason appearances, have two national championships, one national runnerup finish, and have been ranked in the top 25 every year for the past 25 seasons. Gurnett was selected as the NCAA’s Division III Women’s Soccer Coach of the Decade for the 1980s.
With four games left in the 2009 regular season, the women’s soccer team was 10–2–2 overall.
