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LAUREN GREGG U.S. Women's National Team Assistant Coach Born: July 20,1960, in Rochester, Minnesota Hometown: Wellesley, Massachusetts

Lauren Gregg, the first woman to serve as an assistant coach for any of U.S. Soccer's national teams, has been an assistant to the U.S. Women's National Team since 1989. She was an assistant coach for the U.S. team when it captured the 1991 FIFA Women's World Championship in China.

Gregg retired at the conclusion of the 1995 season as the head women's soccer coach at the University of Virginia, where she earned a trip to the NCAA tournament's Final Four in 1991 and a total of seven consecutive NCAA tournament bids (1987-94). She was named the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Coach of the Year in 1990.

Prior to joining Virginia, Gregg was an assistant coach at her alma mater, the University of North Carolina, in 1983.

Gregg, who holds a U.S. Soccer "A" coaching license, obtained her master's degree in counseling and consulting psychology from Harvard where she was the women's assistant coach for two years. She earned her undergraduate degree at UNC in psychology and received the Marie Jane post graduate scholarship as the ACC's top female graduating athlete. As an undergraduate, Gregg attended Harvard for a year as a visiting student.

An All-American at UNC, Gregg played on the 1981 Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women national soccer championship team and captained the 1982 NCAA championship squad. Her international experience includes playing with the U.S. Women's National Team in the North America Cup in 1986.