The North Carolina track and field teams competed at the Gamecock Inaugural this past weekend in Columbia, S.C. Redshirt sophomore Daniel McArthur led the way by breaking a program record in the shot put.
The Tar Heels have a packed schedule this weekend, both in Chapel Hill and across the country.
"All there is, is to jump higher, to show up and to do my job."
Berry, McCool and Selmon won't return for the Tar Heels next season, but they'll all leave behind a lasting impact on the programs they stood out in.
With one final meet in his college career, Kenny Selmon had accomplished just about everything he could as an amateur runner. Except one thing.
Five members of the North Carolina Track & Field team competed at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field National Championship, in Eugene, Oregon and four of them walked away with All-America honors.
The North Carolina track and field teams had a long three days of competition at the ACC Championships in Coral Gables, Fla.
In its last regular-season meet of the season, the North Carolina track and field teams performed well and racked up a number of notable individual performances.
On Friday and Saturday, the North Carolina track and field teams split the weekend’s events in the Virginia Challenge, held in Charlottesville, and the Duke Invitational, held in Durham.
“It’s amazing to me ... I guess she just doesn’t want to follow anybody,” John Alcorta said of his daughter, a decorated senior runner at UNC. “She's always at the front.”
Squaring up with Duke and Michigan on Friday at the Battle of the Blues in the Blue Devil’s Morris Williams Stadium, the UNC women’s track and field team came in third place, while UNC’s men’s team finished second.
RALEIGH — Carolina Alcorta finished the 10,000 meters race on Friday night at the Raleigh Relays, walked off the track at the Paul H. Derr Track and Field Facility and threw her hands on her knees in exhaustion.
After finishing in fifth place at the 2017 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, North Carolina high jumper Nicole Greene felt like she had something to prove for her junior campaign.
First-year Anna Keefer set a pair of personal records in the long jump and the 200 meters, and sophomore Liam Dixon also recorded a career-best mark in the pole vault as the North Carolina women’s and men’s track and field teams competed in the Weems Baskin Invitational in Columbia. S.C. this weekend.
On Feb. 17, 1974, UNC's Tony Waldrop set an indoor mile world record of 3:55. Forty-four years later, the 2018 North Carolina men's and women's track and field teams set some records of their own. In the UCS Invitational this past weekend in Winston-Salem, UNC took first place in two events and second in two others. It was the team's final event of the indoor regular season before the ACC indoor track and field championships.
The North Carolina track and field teams split up this weekend, as some competed in the Music City Challenge in Nashville, Tenn., and others competed in the Tiger Paw Invite in Clemson, S.C. Several athletes moved into UNC's record books in their respective events.
Draven Crist flew over the high jump bar on Saturday, hit the mat and immediately bounced up.
The North Carolina track and field teams had strong showings in the Bob Pollock Invitational in Clemson, S.C., on Friday and Saturday. On the women’s side, the Tar Heels saw top-three finishes in six events. The men had top-three finishes in two events.
The North Carolina track and field teams headed to South Bend on Saturday to compete in the Notre Dame Invitational. The women placed second out of seven schools with 86 points and the men placed fifth out of six schools with 71 points. Heptathlete Will Eskew and high jumpers Nicole Green and Draven Crist also had strong performances at the Clemson Invitational over the weekend.
This meet was simply a tune-up, or so thought the North Carolina track and field team when it stepped into Eddie Smith Field House on Saturday afternoon.
