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.
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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.
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“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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Draven Crist flew over the high jump bar on Saturday, hit the mat and immediately bounced up.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Kenny Selmon is a junior hurdler for the North Carolina track and field team who won his first ACC championship over the weekend in Atlanta, Ga. His 48.76 in the 400-meter hurdles is an NCAA No. 1 mark and ranks No. 2 in the United States and No. 4 in the world this season. Selmon spoke with staff writer James Tatter about the significance of his title, the nerves of running in front of his hometown crowd, his future ambitions in the event and his text to UNC 400-meter hurdles record-holder Ken Harnden after his race.
Read More »North Carolina sent athletes to the Virginia Challenge in Charlottesville, VA and to the Duke Invitational in Durham, NC over the weekend.
Read More »The North Carolina track and field team spent the weekend in Knoxville, Tenn. at the Tennessee Relays, where they continued their upward trajectory with several high-ranking performances.
Read More »The North Carolina men’s and women’s track and field teams competed in the second Battle of the Blues meet on Saturday, April 1, in Durham, NC. The Tar Heels competed against the men’s and women’s track and field teams from Duke and Michigan.
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In a running relay, there is a minuscule stretch of track designated as the exchange zone. Just a few strides long, it marks the finite distance in which one leg of the relay can hand off the baton to the next.
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Nicole Greene is a sophomore high jumper for the North Carolina track and field team. Greene was UNC’s sole competitor at this weekend’s NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships in College Station, Texas.
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A few cautious bounds, a skip and a hop, a full on sprint and then she’s off the ground. There goes Nicole Greene, repeating her ritualistic run-up to the high jump that she's bounded through a thousand times.
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