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Grant Fulton came to Chapel Hill as an assistant coach in the summer of 2005, bringing to Chapel Hill a wealth of international experience as a coach and a player. Before arriving at Carolina, he spent two years coaching his native South Africa, where he served as an assistant for both the men's and women's national teams. He also has been an assistant coach and player for the University of Pretoria men's first team. He spent part of 2002 in Canada, where he was the head coach and manager for the Vancouver Hawks Field Hockey Club, working with male and female players of all ages. He coached and managed several club and school teams from 2001-02, and he was a player and coach for Oranje Zwart, a club team in The Netherlands, in 1998-99. From 1996-99, he co-founded and helped run Sport for Africa, which promoted a variety of sports to children ages 7-18 in Pretoria. In the last three summers, Fulton has served as head coach of the South Region team in the USFHA Women's National Championships, leading the squad to a runner-up finish in 2009. As a player, he was the top goal scorer in the 2008 USFHA Men's National Championship. A graduate of the University of Pretoria, he represented his home country at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and appeared in a total of 60 international matches with South Africa's National Team. He was awarded a U.S. Field Hockey Level III Coaching certificate in 2007. |
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