Plymouth State University

NANCY FELDMAN: Feldman is the all-time women's soccer leader in wins and winning percentage and guided the Panthers to five NCAA tournaments in five years, including a run to the 1993 national championship game. She's also the second winningest women's basketball coach in program history, winning 83 games over her five seasons. She led the team to a pair of postseason appearances, including the program's sole NCAA tournament showing in the 1994-95 season.
 
Feldman inherited a women's soccer program that had made four straight NCAA tournament appearances with three trips to the Final Four and a spot in the first NCAA Division III National Championship game in 1986. The team didn't skip a beat under her guidance, remaining a national powerhouse throughout her five-year tenure.
 
Plymouth State went 13-3 in her first season in 1990. After opening the year with losses to two national title contenders, Feldman's squad ripped off 13 straight victories with 10 shutouts. The Panthers ended the regular season as the top-ranked team in New England and hosted the NCAA regional championships, though Plymouth State was nipped in the regional final by Ithaca, the eventual national champion, in penalties. Feldman claimed Little East Conference Co-Coach of the Year honors while the Panthers dominated the postseason awards with the LEC player of the year and seven players on the 12-woman All-LEC team.
 
Feldman's 1991 team opened with a 14-match winning streak, surrendering just two goals and recording a dozen clean sheets during the stretch. Unsurprisingly, Feldman repeated as LEC Coach of the Year while the team boasted the conference's Player and Rookie of the year.
 
The Panthers topped Kean and Cortland State to return to the Final Four, where, playing on its home turf, Plymouth State came up just short in the national semifinal, a 1-0 setback to Rochester.
 
Plymouth State posted its first unbeaten regular season in 1992, going 14-0-2 to claim a third straight LEC title. Ranked number two in the nation at the end of the regular season, the team was again chosen to host the regional bracket, where the Panthers got past William Smith, though hopes of back-to-back trips to the Final Four were erased with a one-goal setback in the regional final.
 
It was more of the same in 1993, an 11-game unbeaten streak, nine shutouts, and a third LEC Coach of the Year. Shutouts over Williams and Rochester brought the Panthers back to the Final Four, where Plymouth State handed UC-San Diego its only loss of the season in double-overtime to reach the national title game. Although Trenton State would claim the championship, Feldman earned significant postseason honors as the NSCAA New England Region Coach of the Year.
 
In her final season on the sidelines, Plymouth State went 15-1-1 with a remarkable 15 shutouts. She claimed another LEC Coach of the Year honor and advanced to the semifinals of the regional championships, where the season came to an end against Williams in penalties.
 
Her success was hardly limited to the pitch, though, as Feldman also led the women's basketball team through one of the most impressive five-year runs in program history, a stretch that featured both the team's first postseason invite and trip to the NCAA tournament.
 
The 1990-91 team soared to a 19-7 record and won a then-record seven LEC contests to finish tied for second in the league. Despite a setback in the LEC Tournament semifinals, the Panthers were awarded the program's first postseason berth with a trip to the ECAC New England Tournament. Feldman claimed LEC Coach of the Year honors.
 
After first-round exits in the 1991-92 and 1992-93 LEC tournaments, Feldman's 1993-94 team went 18-9. Plymouth State earned a third seed for the LEC tournament and posted back-to-back wins to reach the championship game for the first time, where a setback to Western Connecticut left the Panthers hungry for more.
 
Plymouth State won its final seven regular season games in 1994-95, finishing second in the conference. The team advanced to the championship game of the LEC Tournament, surpassing the 20-win threshold for the first time in program history on the way. Although the Panthers came up short in the title game, the most successful season in school history got even better as the team received an at-large bid to the NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament. The setback to Clark remains the lone NCAA tournament game in the program's history. Feldman was named Coach of the Year.
 
All told, Feldman coached eight All-Americans, 22 All-New England honorees, 35 LEC All-Conference honorees, six LEC major award winners, and nine future Hall of Famers in her time at Plymouth State.
 
She posted a 75-10-6 record on the pitch, while her 83 basketball wins are the second most all-time.