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Erin Matson must have some good connections in The Netherlands.
Carolina’s field hockey team opens the season next Friday at the ACC-Big Ten Challenge in Iowa City, where the Tar Heels take on defending Big Ten champion Michigan on Friday and follow up against Iowa on Sunday.
The Wolverines have a new coach, but she is a former player who has spent the last nine seasons as an assistant. So Carolina may have a difficult time notching wins in the first two games and wants to avoid what happened to the NCAA champion women’s soccer team that lost 2-0 at Tennessee in its opener last week.
Another reason why Matson’s third team may be in a little trouble is that she only has three players from the Netherlands this year. She has had nine over three seasons, including five in 2023 when she went 18-3 and won the national championship as a rookie head coach.
What is Matson’s connection to the Clockwork Orange country anyway? Does she vacation there? Did she play internationally there? Beats me, but she obviously has an affinity for the Lowlanders, as they are called.
Fortunately, senior Sietske Brüning is on the preseason All-ACC team for the third time, joined by senior third-timer Ryleigh Heck and the first time for junior Charly Bruder, who assured her selection by leading the nation in goals last season, when the Heels lost in the NCAA semifinals.
The other two Dutch women on the squad are junior Sanne Hak and freshman Isabel Boere, who keeps the tradition going. Led by Bruder and Heck (who has a freshman kid sister on the team), Matson’s third entry is not only the ACC favorite but also the preseason No. 2 team in the country behind recent rival Northwestern, which the Heels beat in a double-overtime shootout two years ago for the NCAA title at Shelton Stadium.
The most decorated player in UNC’s illustrious field hockey history has been on the U.S. National team since she was 17 and played all over the world as the top scorer at the 2022 Pan American Cup in Chile and also in India, England, South Africa and New Zealand.
But never in the Netherlands? What is her recruiting chops in the country bordered by Germany to the East, Belgium to the South and the North Sea.
When she was starring at UNC, she had not done an NIL deal until Marc Pons of Chapel Hill Tire asked if Matson might record some commercials for them and get paid for it. When contacted, she said, “Oh my God, yes! Yes!”
Since then, she learned all about NIL and funded a brand – “One” that sells all kinds of stuff bearing her logo. She reportedly has built a net worth of $1.5 million, which is about 10 times her salary at Carolina.
That is certainly enough to go recruiting anywhere, like the Netherlands, where she must have a pipeline across the Atlantic Ocean.
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