CMS women's soccer coach Keri Sanchez will be among this year's inductees to the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame.  She will be inducted at a ceremony November 16 along with Arturs Irbe (San Jose Sharks All-Star), Bruce Jenner (Olympic Champion) and Dave and Mark Schultz (Olympic Champions).

Below is Sanchez' bio from the Hall of Fame announcement.

Keri Sanchez was born on December 25, 1972 and made San Jose home when her family moved to the South Bay when she was a young girl. She was raised in an athletic family, and she set her sights on a career as a professional athlete almost immediately.

"I loved all sports," she said, "but at that time there was very little pro men's soccer, let alone women's pro sports in general, except for golf and tennis. Oddly, I grew up wanting to be a men's pro football or hockey player. It was only later on in high school that I focused more on soccer."

And focus on soccer she did. She was a four-year varsity player on the Santa Teresa High School team that made the CCS playoffs in each of those years. In her senior year, Sanchez notched 2 assists in a 2-1 CCS championship victory over Homestead. She also played club soccer during this period, with the San Jose Girls Soccer Club, and as a senior with the West Valley club that won state and regional titles and finished 3rd nationally in the under 19 division.

Her athleticism also found an outlet in the spring season, where she was a member of the Santa Teresa track team. She won 3 events (triple jump, 100m hurdles, 300m hurdles) at CCS
Championships as a freshman and sophomore and was a state finalist in each event. In her junior season, the won 4 events ( long jump, triple jump, 100m hurdles and 300m hurdles) to pace the team to a CCS Championship.

Sanchez was selected for the California Olympic Development Team in 1989, 1990, and 1991. She made the Region IV team in 1990 and 1991.

Sanchez was voted High School Athlete of the Decade (1980's) by readers of the Mercury News. Her tremendous accomplishments as a young athlete earned her a spot on the nationally renowned North Carolina team, where she helped carry on a winning tradition.

During her freshman year in 1991, the Tar Heels won 24 consecutive matches and Sanchez
earned All-ACC honors en route to an NCAA Championship.

The following season, the team posted a remarkable 25-0 record and won its seventh consecutive NCAA title.

In Sanchez's junior season, North Carolina went 23-0 season and added another national
championship. She was named an All-American and earned a second-team selection by Soccer News.

As a senior Sanchez was named team captain and led her Tar Heels team to a 25-1-1 record. The team capped the season with the fourth championship in her collegiate career. Sanchez was named team MVP and she was named to the All-ACC team. She graduated with a degree in physical education.

During her time at North Carolina, Sanchez also trained as a member of the U.S. National Team pool, under the direction of Tar Heels head coach Anson Dorrance. She was a member of the Youth National Team from 1990-1992 and played with the U.S. Senior National team from 1991-1995 and again in 2001. Sanchez played in World Cup qualifying in Haiti in the spring of 1991 and played a total of 13 games for the women's Senior team over her career.

In 2001, Sanchez was drafted by the Boston Breakers of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA). She played for the Breakers for two years before joining the San Jose CyberRays, where she spent the 2003 season playing at Spartan Stadium in her hometown.

From 1997-2004, Sanchez was an assistant coach at the University of Oregon where she earned a master's degree in exercise physiology.

In 2004, she accepted the position of head coach at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, where she has an overall record of 69-42-12, and 45-21-6 in conference play.

In 2009, while maintaining her head coaching role with CMS, she joined the Los Angeles Sol of the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) league. With Sanchez on board, the Sol went 12-3-5, and advanced to the WPS Championship game.

One of the true pioneers during the rise in prominence and recognition of women's amateur and professional soccer, Sanchez enters the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame as its first inductee from the sports of soccer.