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Charlotte 49ers losing women's soccer coach

By Jim Utter
jutter@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008


Jon Lipsitz, who in his short reign as the Charlotte 49ers women's soccer coach took the program to consecutive NCAA tournament appearances, has resigned, athletics director Judy Rose confirmed Monday night.

Rose said Lipsitz had accepted the coaching job at Kentucky of the SEC. Rose declined further comment and said a formal announcement of Lipsitz's departure would be made today.

Lipsitz, a native of Chapel Hill who graduated from North Carolina in 1988, just completed his fourth and most successful season with the 49ers. Charlotte won its third consecutive regular-season Atlantic 10 title and second consecutive A-10 tournament. He was 58-23-4 during his stint with Charlotte.

The 49ers, who finished 18-4-1 this season, went 1-1 in the NCAA tournament, beating Tennessee and losing to eventual national champion North Carolina in the second round.

Lipsitz will replace Warren Lipka, who had been the coach of the Wildcats since the program's inception in 1992 until he was fired last month.

I just got sick... Happy Holidays

My wife read this to me at breakfast and I was shocked.

i thought maybe NC State but not KY.Why?

We were just talking about him coaching the U-18s at the new combined CSA in the fall...so much for that. We actually got a kinda ominious tip off from another college coach who said "well, if your circumstances change, we are ready to talk".

Speaking of the new CSA, it looks like Coach Cullen and Coach Dudley are going to be very busy up in Salisbury next fall.

http://gocatawbaindians.athleticsite.com/article.asp?articleID=3346

Kentucky is in the SEC..Not a shabby conference to compete in

i thought nc state in the acc would of been better.both programs are down right now. he had more talent coming to uncc than either ky or ncsu has.

was he offered the job at state?

with the uncc program doing so well it will be interesting to see who makes the next move to uncc.

Hard Headed:
It's the money in the SEC, The SEC has more money than any other conference to attract the top coaches and the SEC dosn't have to worry about the Women's program competing with the men's program for $$$.

Kentucky is one of two SEC schools (along with South Carolina) that have men's soccer programs.

Peabody:
Your correct, but they play in Conference-USA, not the SEC.

So because the men play in CUSA the women don't have to compete with the men for $$$?

Peabody:
Exactly.

By NCAA rules, women's soccer programs are allowed up to 14 scholarships while the men are limited to 9.9 regardless of which conference they are in. Do you think Kentucky allots less than the allowed 9.9 scholarships to the men's program because they play in the CUSA? And what money would the women's program at Kentucky get that an ACC program would not get?

Peabody:
That's a good question, I bet Bramble at Alabama has the answer.

He certainly would know the difference between the ACC and SEC, but there is no men's program at Alabama like there is at Kentucky.