"As we prepare for the 2021-22 school year, a special time is upon us — athletic season. Although classes begin on Aug. 18 for students, UNC athletic teams have been preparing for the fall athletics season for months."
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Your guide to the 2021 football season, which is kicking off in Chapel Hill on Sept. 11.
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The Faculty Athletics Committee exists to support athletes at UNC in their academic endeavors and wellbeing.
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As indecision continues, debates on the compensation of student-athletes continue to intensify.
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For more than a decade, UNC's Sports Nutrition department has worked to help its athletes avoid the all-too-common issue of eating disorder development.
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Emails and financial agreements received by the DTH through multiple public records requests reveal details of the lead-up to and implementation at UNC of SpotterEDU. The technology, developed and operated by a Chicago-based consulting firm, tracks the class attendance of student-athletes through beacon devices with an automatic Bluetooth connection to their smartphones. Early last month, the DTH reported the existence of the new program at UNC. While the University declined at the time to state which sports it is using the new technology for, new documents suggest that SpotterEDU has been applied only to select players from the football and men's basketball teams.
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As an attempt to make sure the athletics attendance policy is being upheld by student-athletes, new beacon technology has been installed in classrooms throughout the University. The purpose of the beacons are to communicate with mobile devices to ensure that the athletes are attending class and in class for the duration of the period. Though the technology is promised by its distributing organization to be non-invasive and that the software lacks tracking capabilities outside of the classroom; some UNC professors are concerned that the technology poses a privacy threat and surveils student-athletes, with the potential to spread into further supervision of student whereabouts.
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"While it remains to be seen, there is a good chance that the return of the Mack could yield good results for Carolina football, and return to dominance in the ACC."
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During the Board of Governors meeting a report aiming to make UNC system athletics more transparent was revealed. Here are the findings of this report.
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Katie Hoeg's lacrosse career took off and her work ethic and family would drive her to the success she's had, from being ranked the No. 6 recruit in the country to earning first-team All-American honors and breaking UNCs single-season points record as only a sophomore.
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The 2019-20 Tar Heels will inevitably have to lean more on their younger talent, which they hope will include Anthony and Achiuwa.
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A bill introduced in Congress may allow student-athletes to financially benefit from their name, image or likeness.
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The bonds aim to fund old and new athletic construction projects at UNC and are expected to be issued in the first quarter of 2019.
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Read about Busch's journey from the Midwest to ACC baseball stardom.
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The Tar Heels seemed to feed off the crowd in its win over Notre Dame on Sunday. After an impressive third quarter that gave UNC a 62-53 lead, Notre Dame (19-2, 6-1 ACC) came storming back with a 12-1 run to begin the fourth quarter. The run was extinguished when redshirt junior guard Stephanie Watts and sophomore center Janelle Bailey each made a clutch basket to keep the Tar Heels in the game.
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UNC Irish Sports Club has created a welcoming and talented community through "the fastest sport on grass."
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Do you ever wonder why you're so unlucky, especially when it comes to the UNC basketball lottery? Despite the "fair" lottery system in place, many students themselves without tickets time after time despite the benefits of Carolina Fever. Read more to discover the ins and outs of the lottery system and Carolina Fever.
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Hunter Sigmund and his boyfriend's relationship has been thrust into the public eye. But they're using this attention to help other LGBTQ+ youth.
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“I'm not just important because I dribble a ball, or throw a football or I toss a softball around. That's not the only thing that defines me, so I like this new realm.”
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