UA soccer coach Tony Amato. Credit: Stephen F. Austin Athletic Department.

Arizona soccer coachΒ Tony Amato, in his second season, has started the year 4-1-1. That’s rarefied air for a UA women’s soccer program that was on a 9-52-6 conference skid since 2006 before Amato was hired. The Wildcats are likely to sweep Lipscomb and Idaho and open Pac-12 play at 6-1-1. Then comes the difficult terrain. In the current Top 25 rankings, UCLA is No. 1, Stanford is No. 4, Cal is No. 11 and USC is No. 14.Β 


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