Carlos Carrillo ’02 wins 100th match at Dominican
September 15, 2021
Carlos Carrillo ’02, women’s head soccer coach at Dominican University, racked up his 100th career win on September 15 in the Stars’ 2-1 defeat of Illinois Tech. Carlos has a long history at Dominican, starring as a player from 1998-2002 before aiding the men's soccer program as an assistant coach for seven seasons from 2002-2009 and again for the 2013 fall season.
Since 2013, Carlos has turned the team into a Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference powerhouse. The Stars have captured regular-season championships four years in a row (2017-2020) and appeared in their first two NCAA Division III national tournaments in program history (2017 and 2018).
As a student-athlete, he was honored by the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletics Conference (CCAC) as the Newcomer of the Year in 1998 and was a first team all-conference selection four times (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001), earning Conference Player of the Year accolades twice (1999, 2001). The National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) named Carlos to the Region VII All-Region First Team in 1999, 2000 and 2001 while he was selected for the NSCAA All-American Third Team in 1999 before receiving honorable mention All-American selections in 2000 and 2001.
To date, Carlos holds numerous records for the men's soccer program including all-time goals scored (110), all-time assists (68), all-time points (288), single-season goals (37, 2001), single-season assists (26, 1998) and single-season points (81, 2001).