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Now in his eighth season at UNC, Nick Conway is in his second year as the team's associate head coach. Conway has been a member of championship teams as both a coach and a player. In his native England, he was a member of the University of Birmingham team that won the national championship in 1992. As a Tar Heel assistant, he helped direct Carolina to NCAA titles in 1995, '96 and '97. The past two summers, he has coached the Southern Charm, which featured numerous current and former UNC players, to a championships in the United Airlines summer league, an elite league affiliated with the U.S. Field Hockey Association. Conway annually coaches at U.S. Field Hockey "A" Camp and has served as an assistant to the U.S. National Team several times, most recently on a tour of Japan last April. He also has assisted the U.S. squad in a pre-Olympic qualifying tournament in England in November of 1999 and at the Americas Cup in Jamaica in March of 2001. In May, 2000, Conway attended an FIH coaching course in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, that qualified him for selection to an FIH final coaching accreditation course. He plans to complete work for his FIH coaching badge, the highest coaching award in international hockey, at the 2002 Women's World Cup. Conway played in the 1993 Junior World Cup and has been a part of two silver medal European Cup teams. A member of the 1998 World Cup training squad, he has represented England Seniors nine times. He earned a degree in sports and recreation studies from Birmingham in 1995 and is working toward a master's degree in sports administration at UNC. |
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