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Graham Winkworth
will enter his sixth season as the Lions head
women’s soccer coach in 2008. He has led UNA to
38 wins since his arrival and that includes the
school’s first 10-win season in four years in
2004.
Winkworth, who
became just the third women’s soccer coach in
the school’s history, guided UNA to an 8-11 mark
during his first year in 2003. In 2004 the Lions
went 10-8-1 for their first winning season and
first 10-win season since 2000. UNA’s 6-1-1
start to the 2004 season was the best in school
history. The Lions were 8-11 again in 2005,
5-10-2 in 2007 and 7-12-1 last season.
UNA has had eight
players earn All-Gulf South Conference honors in
Winkworth’s five seasons as head coach.
The Reading,
England native came to UNA after two seasons as
assistant coach at the University of Central
Arkansas from 2001-2003.
A graduate of the
University of Central Lancashire in Preston,
England, Winkworth began coaching on the youth
level in 1995. He later coached on the club
level before being hired as assistant men’s
soccer coach and head women’s soccer coach at
Cumberland University in Tennessee for the 2000
season. He was also briefly at Lindsey Wilson
College (Ky.) before being hired at Central
Arkansas.
While at UCA he
helped take the school to a 10-9 record last
season that included a third place finish in the
Gulf South Conference and a spot in the league’s
post-season tournament.
Aston Rhoden began
the UNA program in 1996 and coached through the
2001 season. Cory Tanzer was hired as UNA’s
second women’s soccer coach and led the Lions to
an 8-9-1 record in 2002.
Winkworth at UNA
Year
Record GSC GSC Finish
2003 8-11 3-5 T7th
2004 10-8-1 2-6 8th
2005 8-11 3-7 7th
2006 5-10-2 1-7 9th
2007 7-12-1 8th
Overall: 38-52-4
Home: 19-23-2
Away: 16-24-3
Neutral: 2-3-0
GSC: 10-31-1 |
