Washington women’s soccer coach Lesle Gallimore was named the Pac-12 coach of the year for the second time in her career.
Gallimore led the Huskies, picked 10th in the preseason poll, to a third-place finish in the conference with a 7-4 record and UW (11-6-2 overall) opens the NCAA tournament this Saturday at 6 p.m. at home against Seattle University (12-7-2).
For UW, Summer Yates was named to the Pac-12 second team and Kaylene Pang to the third team.
It’s been two decades between coach of the year awards for Gallimore, who earned the distinction after winning the conference title in 2000.