Lucas: Feels Like Home

Posted Dec 2, 2012
It is Sunday night at about 7:30 p.m. Eastern time, and Chapel Hill native Hanna Gardner has had approximately 90 minutes to get used to the idea that she is a national champion. She grew up idolizing Tar Heel women's soccer players. "They were like gods to me," she says. And now she, Hanna Gardner, has just headed through the eventual game-winning goal in Carolina's 4-1 national championship victory over Penn State. (GoHeels.com)

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