Lauren Gregg

Lauren Gregg, born on July 20, 1960, is an American soccer coach and retired player who featured as a defender or midfielder. As a player she earned a single cap for the United States women's national soccer team in 1986, after a college career that took her through Lehigh, Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she helped the Tar Heels win the AIAW championship in 1981 and the first NCAA title in 1982. Her larger legacy is in coaching. From 1986 to 1995 she led the women's soccer team at the University of Virginia, becoming the first woman to take a team to the NCAA Division I Final Four and the first woman named NSCAA Coach of the Year. She served as the first female assistant coach on any United States national team from 1987 to 2000, was interim head coach of the senior national team in 1997 and 2000, and is also a physician and the co-author of The Champion Within: Training for Excellence.