In the North Carolina volleyball team's home win over Virginia, sophomore Carly Peck led the team in kills, coming up with 16 kills in the match.
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In a Halloween night match against Virginia, the UNC volleyball team came away with a victory, beating the Cavaliers 3-1.
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The North Carolina volleyball team (5-2, 5-2 ACC) continued its win streak, defeating Virginia (1-7, 0-7 ACC) on Saturday night 3-1 in the second to the last game of the season behind 22 kills from sophomore Parker Austin.
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The North Carolina volleyball team defeated N.C. State 3-1 in Raleigh for the second time this weekend, bringing the Tar Heels' record to 4-2 this season.
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“To win a match 3-0 for this team, a young team, I think that’s a really good statement,” UNC head coach Joe Sagula said.
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UNC played two matches against Duke this weekend, replacing the two postponed matches against Virginia that were originally scheduled for Friday and Sunday. After winning Friday's match, the Tar Heels fell short to the Blue Devils on Sunday, losing 3-1.
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“It was hard to watch, I will say, when we were in that first part of the game,” head coach Joe Sagula said. “I’m so proud of how they fought through that."
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Junior Amanda Phegley and sophomore Carly Peck both made 2 blocks at the start of the second set to carry the defense and begin a scoring run for the Tar Heels.
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Following a 14-kill performance in her collegiate debut on Thursday, first-year Aziah Buckner was stellar once again, totaling 15 kills in Friday’s loss.
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“(The first match) sets the tone and builds confidence. You get the chance to feel good about what you’re doing and try to do it again. When you lose a match, you try to figure out what went wrong. So, we’re trying to figure out what went right and keep doing that,” UNC volleyball head coach Joe Sagula said.
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Carly Peck might have come from a family of elite athletes, but when she first started playing volleyball, she thought it was a mistake that she even made the team. Since then, the sophomore has used her underdog mentality as unique motivation to fuel her success at UNC.
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After winning only eight matches two years ago, UNC volleyball took a step forward in 2019. With an abbreviated all-conference schedule in 2020, the Tar Heels could improve even more.
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Destiny Cox was slated to be the next great track star in her family, before she made a important announcement to her family. She wanted to play volleyball instead. As a four-your starter at Carrboro High School, Destiny led the team to a pair of Eastern Region runner-up finishes in 2014-15 and helped capture back-to-back state titles in 2016 and 2017, going on to earn NCHSAA 2A State Most Valuable Player honors two consecutive years. “My greatest accomplishment would be coming to UNC," Cox said. "Just because I could have honestly gone anywhere in the country I wanted to play volleyball, and so deciding to come here to an ACC school definitely surprised a lot of people, but I'm super proud of it.”
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The athletics department "will continue to work with medical experts and the University to evaluate safety conditions with the hope that we can increase capacity in October," Director of Athletics Bubba Cunningham said in a statement.
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While he was honored as a hall of fame inductee in a public match last October, Joe Sagula first found out he was to be inducted during a volleyball practice before the match. Surrounded by friends, faculty and players, it was a small but touching moment for Sagula's volleyball family.
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NCAA President Mark Emmert announced Thursday evening that the NCAA is canceling all 2020 Division I fall championships. This announcement comes eight days after the Division II Presidents Council and Division III Presidents Council each canceled their respective fall championships. The NCAA will attempt to have the championships in the spring. Fall sports teams will still be allowed to participate in a regular season schedule, but they will not have a chance to win a national title.
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“In these next few weeks, the world we know will be determined,” UNC volleyball head coach Joe Sagula said. “We’ll probably know in two weeks where things land.”
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During what has been an unusual offseason for the UNC volleyball team, the Tar Heels have looked to stay in shape and maintain their connection through the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The North Carolina volleyball team fell to Wake Forest on Tuesday. 3-2, in the last regular season home game in Chapel Hill.
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Despite winning 12 out of 14 matches at one point in the season, the Tar Heels ended the year with two straight losses, cementing them with a 12-6 record in conference play.
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