The men’s third place finish is their best finish since the 2013 ACC Championship, where the team finished second. The Tar Heels will travel to Louisville, Ky. on Nov. 11 to compete at the NCAA Southeast Regional Championships – the qualifier for the NCAA national championships on Nov. 19.
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The teams' hardest challenges lie ahead. Brynn Brown, a sophomore on the women's team, said the Tar Heels need to maintain a confident attitude and continue following their game plan while looking forward.
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The women’s team was ranked 12th in the country and the men was ranked 13th in the country coming into this race in Bethlehem. The women’s and men’s teams have not lost a single meet this year, coming in first place in the Charlotte Opener and the Coaching Tree Invitational previous to Friday's race.
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The North Carolina men’s and women’s cross-country teams both posted their best finish in years at the ACC Championships on Friday in South Bend, Ind.
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“I was always a player who was very mobile on the (soccer) field ... the coach came up to me and was like ‘you should run for my team,’” cross country first-year Brynn Brown said. “I started my freshman year. I decided to go all out on running, and it started to take off.”
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The North Carolina men’s cross country team finished first in the Paul Short Run at Lehigh University on Friday morning. First-years Parker Wolfe and Will Coogan made significant contributions to the Tar Heels’ victory.
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The UNC men’s cross country team continued its great start to the season by placing first in the Adidas XC Challenge.
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The No. 13 North Carolina women’s cross country team placed first overall out of 22 teams in Battle in Beantown in Boston, Ma. on Friday afternoon.
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After an impressive showing at UNC-Charlotte, the UNC-Chapel Hill cross country teams have plenty to look forward to in 2021.
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Chris Miltenberg, UNC's director of cross-country and track and field, cited Sorensen's people-first philosophy and recruiting prowess in his decision. Last year, Sorensen helped lead the women's cross-country team to make the 2020 season their most successful in more than a decade. The team made its first NCAA championships appearance since 2014, finishing 14th.
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Parker Wolfe, one of the top recruits in the North Carolina track and field program's 2021 recruiting class, recently found out that he had been named the Gatorade National Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year.
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Despite transferring from Georgetown late in her college career, fifth-year Paige Hofstad has blazed her own trail in helping lead a distance running renaissance for the North Carolina cross country and track programs.
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When head coach Chris Miltenberg took over the UNC track and field program in 2019, he had a mission: build one of the best teams in the country.
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The UNC women’s cross country team was narrowly eligible to compete at the event in Stillwater, Oklahoma — home of Oklahoma State University — after the NCAA committee selected it as the final team. For the men’s team, junior John Tatter qualified as an individual runner.
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The stories of Smolenaars, Hunt and Holešínká prove that no matter what country you hail from, the UNC-Duke rivalry is able to capture the hearts of its adherents and leave lasting effects on them that are felt long after they leave the Triangle.
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Following a slew of 2020’s spring seasons cut short due to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the new schedules provide a light at the end of the tunnel for athletes looking to return to competition.
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UNC first-year Sasha Neglia finished sixth at the ACC Championships to earn All-ACC honors and the award for ACC Women's Cross Country Freshman of the Year.
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Running against N.C. State, Virginia and Duke at the Wolfpack Invitational, the UNC women's cross country team finished in second and the men's group finished in third.
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After her win at the Virginia Invite, first-year Sasha Neglia was named ACC Cross Country Performer of the Week, as well as NCAA Division I Women’s Athlete of the Week by the U.S Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
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The UNC women's cross country team finished first with six top-10 finishers — three of which were first-years — and the UNC men finished third in the Tar Heels' season opening meet.
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