As the spring 2021 women’s soccer season starts to head into the final stretch, there’s one thing that’s obvious in the Pac-12. Graham Winkworth should be the leading candidate for conference’s Coach of the Year award. Arizona State was picked to finish last in the preseason poll, barring something crazy, that probably won’t happen.
The Sun Devils sit undefeated in conference play with five games remaining. They’ve swept USC and UCLA for the first time ever. Winkworth and his staff’s efforts should not go unnoticed.
Following the winless conference season in 2019 and the global pandemic pushing the 2020 back, Winkworth wanted his team to be exactly that, a team.