Cirovskis To Be Featured On ACC LIVE Tonight
11/10/2003 7:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Nov. 10, 2003
GREENSBORO, N.C. - ACC LIVE, Fox Sports Net's weekly signature program profiling the Atlantic Coast Conference, airs Monday, 11/10 at 6:30 p.m. EST. Mike Hogewood hosts the live, half-hour show from FSN's Atlanta studio, where he is joined by reporter Jenn Hildreth.
Maryland soccer is, well, a family affair, and on Monday's ACC LIVE, Hildreth explains how the husband and wife tandem of Sasho Cirovski (men) and Shannon Higgins-Cirovski (women) juggles veteran head coaching duties, the rigors of ACC competition (three men's and five women's teams nationally ranked), and responsibilities at home caring for three daughters. Sasho, in his 11th season with the Terps, has guided his 2003 club to a 15-1 record, a No. 2 national ranking, and to the top seed in next weekend's ACC men's tournament.
Shannon, meanwhile, has her fourth UM team (sixth-seeded, No. 25 nationally) again in the ACC Tournament semifinals - opposite No. 19 and second-seeded Florida State - in this week's ACC women's tourney. Sasho last season steered his Terps to the NCAA Final Four and has them poised for a run at the '03 title. Shannon, a North Carolina graduate who also spent seven years as head coach at George Washington, last month became only the third woman and the youngest person ever inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
With the ACC field hockey and women's soccer championships being decided this weekend (both airing live on FSN on Sunday, 11/9), ACC LIVE on Monday has all the highlights, sound bites and color from both sports' title games.
"ACC Flashback," held over from last week's show, spotlights former North Carolina (1967-77) and Wake Forest ('87-92) head football coach Bill Dooley. Dooley is the top tenured (11 years) and second all-time winningest (69) coach in Tar Heel history. He captured back-to-back ACC titles in '71-72, as his teams went undefeated in conference play and posted a collective 20-4 record. Plus, as the architect of the Demon Deacons, Dooley was twice tabbed as conference coach of the year ('88,'92). He finished his final season at 8-4, capping off a successful career at WFU, with an Independence Bowl victory (def. Oregon, 39-35). He is the fourth-longest tenured coach in Wake Forest history.
ACC LIVE's "Hot Ticket" segment recaps Saturday's (11/8) "Death Valley" showdown between third-ranked Florida State (68-1, 6-0 ACC) and Clemson (5-4, 3-3). The annual "Bowden Bowl" between FSU head coach Bobby and Clemson mentor Tommy has been all Seminoles as they have captured all four meetings by a combined 160-79 score. The games at Clemson have been much more competitive, with FSU having outscored the Tigers by only a 58-41 count. Bobby is the winningest coach in NCAA Division I-A history (340-97-4), while son Tommy, in nearly seven seasons as a head coach, is 52-28 overall (34-24 in his fifth season at Clemson).
ACC Players of the Week are spotlighted on Monday's show, which also includes "Hog's Hot List" - the host's roundup of the latest intriguing tidbits from around the nine-member ACC family - and Hildreth's "Speed Read," which tackles the up-to-the-minute news, notes and happenings in the ACC.
