A concrete foundation typically needs 28 days to cure.
For Penn State women’s soccer head coach Erica Dambach, however, a solid base is the product of 11 years spent laying bricks.
Since taking the reins from former coach Paula Wilkins in 2007, Dambach has been the lead architect in developing a titanic soccer program respected all over the country.
Previously the head coach at Harvard University and an assistant for the gold medal winning U.S. women’s soccer team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Dambach has twice been named the NSCAA Coach of the Year — once in 2012 and again in 2015 — and helped lead the Nittany Lions to the 2015 National Championship.