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University of NC - Charlotte

Charlotte 49ers Athletics
 9201 University City Blvd. Charlotte, NC 28223
Division 1 North Carolina Southeast
Public Very Large National competitor
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Brandi Fontaine

Charlotte 49ers Director of Athletics Mike Hill announced the hiring of two-time Big South Coach of the Year Brandi Fontaine as the 49ers' women's soccer coach on May 19, 2022. Fontaine, who led High Point University to unprecedented heights in four seasons as head coach, becomes the fifth head coach for the 49ers' women's soccer program.


Fontaine led the Panthers to a pair of unbeaten Big South regular-season championships, a Big South Conference Tournament title, the 2021 NCAA Tournament and the highest rankings in program history.


Charlotte has reached the Conference USA Championship game in three of the last six years, winning the league title in 2016 and notching runner-up finishes in 2017 and the spring 2021 campaign. The 49ers, who have earned five NCAA Tournament bids in their history, will host the 2022 C-USA Championships.


This past season, the Panthers won their first Big South Conference Tournament title since 2017 and earned the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Panthers went 10-8-2 overall with an 8-2 mark in the Big South before claiming the league tournament title with an overtime victory over top-seed and host Campbell University.


In the 2020-21 season, played in the spring due to the pandemic, Fontaine led HPU into the national rankings. The Panthers went 10-1, including an 8-0 record in Big South play and a perfect 9-0 mark in regular-season action. High Point was ranked as high as 24th in both the Top-Drawer Soccer and College Soccer News media polls and received votes in the United Soccer Coaches poll, the highest rankings in program history. The Panthers were ranked as high as number eight in the United Soccer Coaches Southeast Region ranking.


In 2019, the Panthers posted their first unbeaten season in Big South games, going 8-0-2 to claim the league's regular-season crown, quite a turnaround from the 5-10-4 (Big South: 3-4-3) season record in Fontaine's first year at the helm.


Fontaine was named Big South Coach of the Year in both 2019 and 2020-21 following those unbeaten conference seasons and regular-season crowns.


Fontaine spent the last 13 seasons with the Panthers. Before taking over as head coach in 2018, she served as associate head coach from 2013-2017 and was an assistant coach from 2009-12. She has been a part of the coaching staff for five of HPU's seven NCAA Tournament trips and has helped the Panthers to four Big South regular-season titles and five tournament championships. Fontaine was part of a coaching staff that set program records for wins in a season (13, twice), conference wins in a season (8, four times), and longest winning streak (10, 2020-21)


Fontaine started her coaching career as an assistant coach in 2008 for one season at her alma mater, Francis Marion University. A three-year letterwinner for the Patriots, Fontaine (formerly Sutphin) played in 33 career matches with 20 starts, recording three goals and 11 assists. She served as team captain during her senior season and ranked in the top 25 in the nation in assists as a junior.


She began her college career at West Virginia University, playing in five games as a freshman for a Mountaineer squad that went 15-6-0 and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament.


Fontaine earned a bachelor's degree in mass communication from Francis Marion in December 2007 and a Master of Science in Sports Management from American Public University in 2010.


A native of Davidsonville, Maryland, Fontaine is a product of South River High School located in Edgewater, Maryland.


She holds a premier diploma from the United Soccer Coaches Association and is an assistant director of coaching at the Piedmont Triad Football Club, coaching five North Carolina State Cup Champions.


Fontaine and her husband, Keith, have a son, Kaden. Fontaine's twin sister, Jacque Sutphin, also played at FMU.

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Tyler Schatz

Tyler Schatz joined Charlotte as an assistant coach prior to the 2022 season after spending the previous two seasons at High Point University.


He primarily worked with the team's goalkeepers, but also had a hand in team video, defensive schemes, and team travel. In Schatz's first season with the Panthers, High Point posted a 10-1-0 record and achieved a program-record ranking of No. 24 in the College Soccer News Poll. HPU went a perfect 8-0-0 in Big South play to win the regular season championship and had a program record 11 postseason awards, including the First Team All-Big South Goalkeeper. In 2021, HPU won it's seventh Big South Tournament title and reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2017.


Prior to joining High Point, Schatz spent the 2019 season at Northern Arizona University after six seasons at VCU. Schatz has worked with top conference players at all three institutions and has helped multiple goalkeepers to Defensive Player of the Week awards and All-Conference. Before starting as a full-time assistant, Schatz was a graduate assistant for two seasons at VCU while earning a Master's in Sports Leadership while assisting with the women's soccer program.


Schatz played collegiately at Kenyon College in Ohio and still currently ranks in the top three in program record books for goals against average for a single season and in his career. A 2012 graduate, Schatz earned his degree in History and Statistics.


After graduating from Kenyon, Schatz moved to Spain where he played in the professional ranks for one year with Club Deportivo de Cieza.


Schatz currently holds his USSF C License as well as a United Soccer Coaches Advanced National Goalkeeper Diploma.

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