The No. 3 North Carolina women’s soccer team (10-0-8, 5-0-5 ACC) tied Boston College (3-9-6, 0-6-4 ACC), 1-1, on the road for its final game of the regular season on Thursday evening.
Although recovering and watching her team from the sidelines isn't where Julia Dorsey first envisioned herself during her final season of collegiate soccer, the graduate defender has made the best of her recovery by assuming an invaluable leadership role among the Tar Heels.
The North Carolina women’s tennis team opened its 2023 fall slate this weekend, hosting the Kitty Harrison Invitational at the Chewing Tennis Center, in which UNC won two of the singles pools and one of the doubles pools against a strong field of opponents.
With a new offensive coordinator, a preseason ACC Player of the Year in quarterback Drake Maye and a defense eager for redemption, UNC looks primed to build upon last season's success.
Wisconsin only recorded one shot over 90 minutes. "Maybe eventually, we’ll play a team that decides to cross (midfield)," Anson Dorrance said.
The mental health discussion in sports has grown over the last five years, with the COVID-19 pandemic raising awareness about athletes dealing with anxiety, depression and isolation.
Current UNC wrestler Austin O’Connor and Blair were roommates at Chapel Hill for three years. They keep in contact on a weekly basis as O’Connor looks ahead to what a potential future competing in pro-MMA.
“It allows people to play a little more freely," graduate guard Eva Hodgson said. "On any given night we need different people to step up and be able to produce because you don’t know how you’re going to shoot."
The end of UNC quarterback Drake Maye’s 2022 season remains unwritten, but one thing is clear: with continued play at this level, Maye should be in discussion for the Heisman.
Babic, a first-year student from Phoenix, has been crucial to the team’s success this season as a setter. Thus far, she has already picked up over 660 assists, highlighted by six games with 40 or more assists, including 42 this past weekend against Duke.
