“I'm really hopeful,” senior Kate Burgess said. “I'm excited for the future. Even when I'm no longer on the team in the future, I'll be in the front row cheering louder than anyone when the success does come to fruition.”
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Two UNC athletes, Madias Loper and Jackie Wilhelm, joined a delegation of athletes from the ACC traveling to Selma and Montgomery, Ala. for an immersive social justice journey.
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This weekend, the North Carolina women’s rowing team traveled to Clemson, S.C., to compete in the ACC Championship regatta against some of the top teams in the country. UNC’s First Varsity Eight received the team’s first winning spot in the championship when they defeated both Notre Dame and Boston College to close out North Carolina’s time on the water.
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The North Carolina Tar Heel’s women’s rowing team competed in the Lake Wheeler Invitational on Saturday afternoon, finishing in 12th place out of the 17 teams that participated.
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On Saturday, the North Carolina rowing team competed in its first event of 2022 at the UVA Invitational at the Rivanna Reservoir in Earlysville, Virginia.
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“Erin really showed us what our program should be about, and we worked really hard the entire season,” senior Sarah Catherine Niles said. “It was such a new feeling because we had never had that stability before and her points of view on things gave us new life in rowing.”
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Twenty years after her departure from the University, things have come full circle as Neppel returns to UNC. With her enthusiasm to return to her roots and the experience that she brings with her, the athletes look forward to the future of the rowing program.
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Last weekend, UNC softball was swept by Duke, women's tennis competed in the ACC Championships and more.
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This weekend, UNC softball lost a series to Pittsburgh, UNC men's tennis took two wins and more.
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On Friday and Saturday, women's and men's tennis beat Virginia Tech, men's soccer beat Notre Dame and more.
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Both Tar Heel tennis teams won on Sunday, while the softball team took a tough loss and the rowing team returned to action for the first time in nearly a year.
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The team is looking to row competitively against other schools for the first time since March 7, 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic stifled the Tar Heels' season. Interim co-head coaches Emilie Gross and Thomas Revelle will lead UNC for the 2021 campaign.
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"Bringing her in with that positive energy it was kind of like a new spark to the fire," Gross said. "Which kind of brings the moral up, which is great especially right now."
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“For me and for most of my teammates, it’s just understanding the importance of health science,” senior Juliana Micchia said. “I think a lot of times we don’t realize — you know, we’re young, healthy, we’re all athletes — that this could touch our lives or the lives of our friends.”
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Athletes went from practicing and playing almost every day to going home, wherever that may be, uncertain about their futures. But in that time, UNC athletes are finding new hobbies or perfecting their crafts.
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Former rowing coach Sarah Haney is still employed by the University of North Carolina, The Daily Tar Heel has learned through public records. After announcing her resignation amidst a Title IX investigation into the team on December 2, 2019, Haney transferred into her new role as a "special assistant to the athletic director" that same day.
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Sarah Haney’s resignation came five days after The Daily Tar Heel obtained, through an anonymous source close to the program, an email from athletic director Bubba Cunningham that confirmed the existence of a University Title IX office investigation into the rowing program. The investigation follows complaints made by student-athletes against Haney, the head coach since 2002, and assistant head coach Anthony Brock, including alleged emotional abuse, injury negligence and sexual harassment, according to the person close to the program and a group of five current rowers, all of whom were granted anonymity by the DTH.
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The North Carolina rowing team raced eight different combinations in the Princeton Chase on Sunday, with the fastest time of the day coming from UNC's first varsity eight in the first round.
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The North Carolina women’s rowing team capped off its 2018-19 season this weekend by placing seventh of nine teams at the ACC Championships at Lake Hartwell in Clemson, S.C., competing in events on both Friday and Saturday. Senior Maria Marroquin was named to the All-ACC second team, while Virginia captured its tenth consecutive ACC Championship.
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The North Carolina rowing team’s six boats advanced to the grand final this weekend at the Knecht Cup, and two boats took home first place. With this strong finish, the team gained momentum heading into the rest of the season.
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