The fall season for the Baylor School girls’ soccer program provided a historic 10th TSSAA state championship as well as a tremendous honor for its head coach.
Curtis Blair has been named the United Soccer Coaches National Private girls’ Coach of the Year following his team’s 16-1-1 overall finish that included a 3-0 shutout of Harpeth Hall in the Division II-AA state championship game on Oct. 27 at CHI Memorial Stadium.
Baylor finished the season ranked as the 15th best program in the country according to the United Soccer Coaches final poll.
A talented roster of 29 varsity players for the Lady Red Raiders scored three goals or more in 15 of their matches. Meanwhile, they only allowed more than one goal once all season in a 3-1 loss to Bearden (No. 8 in national rankings), which was a game in which neither team scored in the first half.
“This award does not belong to me,” Blair said. “This award belongs to everyone in our program. Our coaching staff is amazing, the players are bought into everything we ask them to do and the school administration has been very supportive of our program.