This time in CMU history: Head coach hired for 1998 women's soccer team
On Jan. 28, 1998, Central Michigan Life reported on the hiring of a head coach for the new women’s soccer team.
The decision was made to hire Mark Salisbury from the University of Missouri-Rolla. The article stated Salisbury would have the opportunity to build the team up from the bottom when it was scheduled to begin the next fall.
The article added Salisbury would not do a lot of recruiting for the new team; he would instead start with the club team and go from there. Salisbury added that every girl who wanted a chance to play for the Chippewas would receive that opportunity.
Salisbury worked at the University of Missouri-Rolla for three years as the men’s and women’s head soccer coach. While there, he turned a team that was coming off six straight losing seasons into a team that placed twenty-fourth in the country for Division II.
CMU joined eight other teams in the Mid-American Conference for soccer in the next season. The new team played its season opener at Bowling Green against Robert Morris and Western Illinois. Its home opener was against Toledo.
