Soccer
Sep 18 (Thu)
7 p.m.
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- alli.hunt@colorado.edu
- Phone:
- 303-492-0632
Alli Hunt is entering her second season as assistant coach after filling the void of a second assistant coach that had been vacant since the end of the 2003 season.
"Alli has been a great addition to our team," said senior captain Katie Griffin. "We definitely needed a female role figure for our girls. She makes everyone feel very comfortable and we’re pleased to have her as a part of the coaching staff."
A four-year letterwinner and starter for Wake Forest and head coach Tony da Luz, the Demon Deacons went 41-30-8 overall and 10-16-3 in Atlantic Coast Conference play from 2001-04. Hunt played in four NCAA Tournaments as an undergraduate, as the Demon Deacons dropped first round matches during the 2001, ?03 and ’04 championships and advanced to the second round in 2002. She started 71 of 79 career matches and her career line includes 49 shots, a single score, 13 assists and 15 points.
As a freshman, she was an ACC All-Freshman Team selection and picked by Soccer Buzz to the Southeast Region All-Freshman Team. She saw action in 18 games with 11 starts and assisted on the gamewinning goal in a 1-0 shutout win over North Carolina State.
The most productive season of her career, her sophomore campaign, she started all 22 matches and led the team with a season high seven assists which tied the single season school record.
Hunt was named to the 2003 Wake Forest adidas Women’s Soccer Classic All-Tournament team as a junior. She started all 20 matches for the Deacons and had nine shots and a single assist on the 10-7-3 season.
As a senior she started all 19 contests and had four points on the season, including one score and a pair of assists. Her lone goal proved to be the gamewinner on a penalty kick against Maryland. And one of her two assists on the season was against CU in a 1-2 loss during the WF adidas Women’s Soccer Classic. The win was CU’s first in six attempts against ACC teams. She capped her collegiate career as an All-ACC and All- Southeast Region pick.
A Charlotte, N.C. native, Allison Meredith Hunt was born July 31, 1983 in Charlotte. Prior to playing at Wake Forest, she captained and was named the 2000 season MVP of her club team, the ’81 Ladies Blue, which she led to the 1998 and 2000 North Carolina state championship and the Region III semifinals. She captained the state and region team in the Olympic Development Program, and has also been invited to five national camps. Hunt led her state team to the 2001 Region III championship. She attended the select Adidas ESP Camp two years. In prep play she was a two-time conference player of the year and the 2000 Region II Player of the Year at Charlotte Country Day School. A three-time all-state selection, three-time all-region selection and three-time all-conference selection, she led Charlotte Country Day to the state semifinals three straight years and also played basketball.
She is a second generation ACC student-athlete as her mother, the then Ginny Bauer, swam and dove at North Carolina where she was the ACC diving champion in the mid 1970s.
Her hobbies include reading,watching the Food Network and beating Paul daily at the "meg" game.
