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Former UNC soccer standout in line for prestigious NCAA award

Cindy Parlow Cone was one of the best soccer players to don a jersey for UNC. 25 years removed, she now won a prestigious award.

For all the talk UNC receives about being a basketball school, which it definitely is, there’s other programs who enjoy even more success.

The most historically dominant athletics program in Chapel Hill is the UNC women’s soccer team, who owns the all-time NCAA record with 21 national titles. Carolina nearly captured the 2022 championships but hasn’t won it all since 2012.

It’s not uncommon to see former Tar Heels on the National Team – Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly and Tobin Heath, to name a few.

How about Cindy Parlow Cone? She played with Hamm, was the National Player of the Year from 1996-1998, plus she helped Carolina capture the 1996 and 1997 NCAA Titles.

Now 25 years removed from collegiate soccer, Parlow won a prestigious collegiate honor – the 2024 NCAA Silver Anniversary Award.

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This award recognizes former student-athletes – 25 years after their collegiate careers end.

Cone’s stats backed up her historic UNC status, with 68 career goals and 53 assists. She continued on to enjoy a successful career with the USWNT, scoring 75 goals in 158 games while helping her national teammates win the 1999 World Cup, 1996 and 2004 Olympic Gold Medal games.

Cone was an assistant at Carolina from 2007-2012, coaching her players to titles in 2008, 2009 and 2012. Right now, she is president of the United State Soccer Federation.

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The U.S. Soccer president will continue to earn a $0 salary

An amendment to pay U.S. Soccer’s president an annual salary was voted down at this year’s AGM

U.S. Soccer president is a little closer to being a paid position, but it’s not there yet.

For the second straight year, an amendment that would pay the U.S. Soccer president $125,000 annually was rejected at U.S. Soccer’s Annual General Meeting.

Last year the amendment got 58.91% approval and this year that figure was 62.87% — just short of the two-thirds required to adopt it.

U.S. Soccer president — who since 2020 has been Cindy Parlow Cone — has always been an unpaid position, which is typical of nonprofits like U.S. Soccer.

But there is a growing movement to change that, given Parlow Cone works full-time hours in her role.

As Yahoo Sports documented, Parlow Cone’s assistant was asked last year to track her weekly hours.

The time study found that, from July through November, [Parlow Cone] spent weekly averages of 12-14 hours in scheduled meetings, 18-24 hours on unscheduled calls and nine hours reading emails or documents.

The opposition to paying the U.S. Soccer president appears to come mostly from those who run amateur soccer associations across the country. From Yahoo:

“I would suggest to you that our clubs, the tens of thousands of clubs who are led by presidents who are volunteers — [they] probably invest as much time in their work life as they do in their volunteer job,” Dave Guthrie, Indiana Soccer’s executive director, said at last year’s AGM.

“So I don’t know that that justification [for paying the USSF president] holds true unless we somehow want to pay all of our presidents of all of our member organizations. Which I don’t think we’re prepared to do.”

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