George Tarantini

Head men's soccer coach at North Carolina State University He was men's soccer head coach at North Carolina State University from 1986 to 2010.

Tarantini's 1990 North Carolina State team won the ACC championship, and reached the Final Four, before losing to UCLA on penalty kicks. North Carolina State ended the 1990 season with a 17–4–2 record, the best in school history.

Tarantini earned Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year honors in both 1992 and 1994. He also was the NCAA regional coach of the year in 1994. He has directed North Carolina State to eight NCAA Tournament bids. Tarantini has won more games with North Carolina State than any other coach in school history.

After retiring from North Carolina State in 2010, he served as the Assistant Coach for St. David's School in Raleigh until his death in 2019. He died of a heart attack.