Outshooting Stanford was a priority in the North Carolina field hockey team's opening round of the NCAA Tournament, and the Tar Heels were successful en route to a 2-0 victory.
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UNC currently has five different teams ranked No. 1 in the country. This is how those teams have maintained their momentum to reach that top spot.
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As a result of the pandemic, four UNC sports — men’s and women’s soccer, field hockey and volleyball — are playing both a fall and spring season. The move means being able to play more competitive games in a year and staying in game shape, instead of just playing in the fall and practicing the rest of the year.
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Two first quarter goals from junior forward Erin Matson lifted the North Carolina field hockey team (12-1, 4-1 ACC) to a 2-0 win over Wake Forest (4-9, 1-1 ACC) in the second game of the spring season.
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Sports so often come down to opportunity — which team gets the most opportunities, and which team takes the biggest advantage of its opportunities. It was those opportunities that defined the UNC field hockey team's spring-opening 2-0 win over Louisville on Friday.
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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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After 47 consecutive victories — the second-longest win streak in NCAA field hockey history — the Tar Heels fell to Louisville on Oct. 2 in their first loss since 2017. The team took advantage of the remainder of the season to come back from their loss and end a condensed season on top.
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“I think it’s inevitable that you’re going to have some (COVID-19 cases), and you've got to learn from them,” UNC football head coach Mack Brown said in July. “All of us will be more cautious now, in my opinion, than we were before.”
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The North Carolina field hockey team won its fourth consecutive ACC Championship on Sunday. “A lot of challenges, a lot of stuff we had to go through as a team — but we managed it, we became closer, became stronger,” Matson said. “This is why we play field hockey.”
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If we learned anything about the Tar Heels on Sunday, it's that they aren't fond of repeating bad memories.
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The North Carolina field hockey team secured an ACC Championship on Sunday in Karen Shelton Stadium, defeating top-seeded Louisville, which had beaten the Tar Heels earlier in the season to snap their historic 47-game winning streak.
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The victory was enough for UNC head coach Karen Shelton to break a tie with UConn’s Nancy Stevens to move Shelton into the top spot on the NCAA’s all-time wins list as a coach with 701 victories.
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In a 4-3 overtime thriller win over Syracuse, Karen Shelton did more than watch her team advance to the ACC Championship Title game. She also set the all-time records for wins by an NCAA field hockey coach with 701 victories in her career.
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“It was dramatic, back and forth,” said Karen Shelton, who set the NCAA all-time record for wins as a field hockey head coach with the victory.
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