UNC’s Parlow Cone Named Thorns FC Head Coach

Cindy Parlow Cone has spent many afternoons in her adult life on the sidelines of UNC’s Fetzer Field, first as a player for the Tar Heels and then as an assistant coach.

She played 158 times for the U.S. WNT, helped her team win the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup and a pair of gold Olympic medals (1996, 2004).

Now she’ll be on the sideline clear across the U.S. in Oregon, but this time with a team of her own.

Parlow Cone, 34, a native of Memphis, TN, was recently …